Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-28 | Page 1 | A Determined Murderer

A DETERMINED MURDERER. He Shoots a Reputable Mu and Then Sinks Beneath the Ware. Memphis, Tenn., July 28. About three months ago Oscar Grantham broke into Bilt Pilliken's shanty, near the mouth of Wolf Kiver and stole a pistol. He disappeared from the city at once and did not return until today. Meeting Grantham about 2 o'clock, Pillikens charged him with tho theft. Grantham made no reply except to draw a pistol and shoot his accuser, the bullet taking effect in tho left side, just below the heart. The wounded man dropped at once and, seeing the murderous murder-ous result of his action, Grantham plunged into . Wolf Kiver and swam for the opposite hauk. When half way across he realized that he could go no further, his boots and clothes dragging him beneath the surface. Making one final and desperate effort, he turned over upon his back and leveling the pistol, pis-tol, which he had held while in the water, he again lired at Pilliken, hitting him in the left elbow and breaking the bone.- Immediately after this was done the determined murderer sank beneath tho waves and was seen no more.; The wound in Pilliken's side is not certainly fatal. Physicians think, howevei", ho intist loso his left arm, blood poisoning having already net in. Pilliken was a watchman for the Louisville Louis-ville & Nashville railroad. Grantham, the murderer, was a worthless and disreputable dis-reputable character and a notorious tough. '