| Show lYE WITNESS EYE WITNESS i TELLS O OF SCENE By CHARLES E. E f Copyright 1935 United Pre Press BATON BArON ROUGE La Sept 9 9 S Standing in the door of ot Governor Ol O O. 1 l' l K Allen's Allens office less leas than ten feet teet away I witnessed the attempt on 01 Senator Longs Long's life Ufe last Jast night and ant saw W the man who shot him lIm rIddled z a moment later by more than h half halfa a R dozen of ot Senator Longs Long's guards Not No more than five minutes earlier ear ear- her lier I h had d talked with Long on the floor of tho the house of representatives where he was wu watching his leg legislators legisla sla- sla tors pass to second rending reading the 39 backed bills that had been approved Sunday morning by his house ways and means commit commit- tee teo Longs Long's Last Interview Senator Senat r my office offic just informed me that th the government Investigators tors tore have r reported ported that C C C officials officials dais were guilty of criminal negligence negligence negligence gence gence in the deaths of the several hundred world w war r. r veterans killed In the Florida hurricane 1 I In Informed Informed informed In- In formed him That doesn't surprise me Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Long answered quickly They have been boen negligent in so many things that the lives of n IL few men who offered their lives in defense of their country during the great war means nothing to them That ThatIs Is jg nothing except ano another her vote for Roosevelt for lor every man roan that dies I walked outside the governors governor office through the anteroom and opened the main double doors leading leading leading lead lead- ing from the anteroom to 10 the tho governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gov gov- office into the ornate marble marble mar mar- bl ble corridor connecting the th house and senate chambers which are ate at opposite ends of ot the states state's tes te's magnificent magnificent cent 31 story capitol building Just as my hand clutched the knob of the d door or I heard a a. muffled shot Jerking the door open I 1 saw Senator Senator Long walking away away- his hand to his aide side Almost at my feet I saw Murphy Roden young war veteran and member of ot the state highway police assigned to guard duty with Senator Long struggling with a white clad manA man A shot hot was fired I couldn't tell which of the struggling men fired Roden Boden ba backed ked away firing The man with whom he had been struggling pitched forward on his face lace his right arm crooked and his head bead pillowed in the crook of his arm aim m. m He gave a strangled cry Then half a dozen men officers in plain plainclothes plainclothes plainclothes clothes began firing at him The Spanish pistol with which he had shot Senator Long slipped sUpped rom hand His body trembled and stiffened stif- stif ened as bullet after bullet thud- thud 1 dd into it The crash of the exploding re revolvers revolvers re- re vol vera drowned the sound Bound of I Speaker All Allen n Ellender who at that moment was announcing over the house bous amplifiers that the legislature legisla- legisla J t ture fun was adjourned until 10 io a. a m. m Monday Above the drone of tho the speakers speaker's voice the vicious crackle klo kle o of th the the pis pistols pistols pis- pis brought the departing spectators spectators tors crowding the house h galleries and for a m moment n nt created a anear near panic Colonel E. E P. P Roy c commanding g the state tate highway police hurried forward and took charge He posted posted post post- ed a police guard about the blood- blood spattered body outside th the gov governors governor's governors governor's gover gover- r- r nors nor's door r Governor Wn Want Vant t Gun un Governor Allen rushed Into the outer office demanding to know what had happened Is Huey hurt he asked me I I dont don't think he is il I And then to one In particular Governor Allen remarked Somebody Some I body give glye mo a pistol If there is any shooting to be done here I want to b be in on it it No 10 one had a a. gun IUn to surrender lurrender apparently Lieutenant Governor James A. A Noe close friend of Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Long came rushing up He Be and andI I i commandeered an automobile and hastened across f to the Lady of the Lake k sanitarium where Senator Long still conscious was on a table in the eme emergency operatIng ge operating room Doctors were busy over the senator senator sena sena- tor ter who smiled weakly when he heI I saw Noe Its all right Jimmy Senator Long said as Noe Noc bent over him tears teara in his eyes Ono One of the doctors took Noe Nos by the arm and led him hUh outside B Bettor leave us us alone atone now the doctor said A moment later police guards appeared ap- ap outside the operating room and It at th the main entrance ce to the hospital hopital denying e entrance tra ce to the hundreds of people who seemed to spring from out of nowhere to crowd the hospital grounds |
