Show l NEGRO IS SHOT AS RESULT OF OI A BET BETIN IN A DICE GAME t b. b Q Henry Henry Staten a negro gambler ambler and an alle alleged cd cocaine fiend nd is in St. St Mirk's hospital dangerously wounded and Jerry Jerry Jer Ter ry Chorn a negro ro jockey who shot him is in jail J Ac According ordin to the reluctant stories stories' of the affair the tIle trouble started over o a a. 12 bet in a dice name game in the tho basement of Mackenzie's s saloon 33 Commercial street Xo No one ono who vrho ho could be called a ble ole oye witness to the shooting has yet been found as everybody ran when hen tho the guns uns commenced to pop Staten it is alleged cd threw down a 12 hot bet and before Chorn could cover it it picked up the mOM money and dropped it back in his hip bip pocket Chorn and he had been arguing about a a. d debt bt and William WilIiam Mackenzie proprietor of the establishment said Mid that Chorn pulled d his his lus revolver re without any provocation pro beyond Staten's natural move mo to put nt tho the money back in hia his pocket Two Iwo shots it is claimed were fired by br Chorn The bullet entered the tho right side BIde from the back penetrating the lun lung and the liver her six or eight inches below the point o of the shoulder blade coming coming- out on tho the right side Chorn Thorn eluded the the police police until about 11 o'clock clock this morn morning whoa when Patrolman Patrol Patrol- man Howell tra traced ed him to Fhe the old Taylor rooming ng house on on West Test Third S South uth street between West and Main streets Wh where ro be he was found in company with a white whito man Frank Merrill who ot rana with him after tho the trouble Chorn said he ho shot in self defense |