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Show MMiA&MNS-AMECILIN WAR DEPARTMENT; TWO CLERKS SHOT; MAD PANIC WASHINGTON, : March, a. Armed with a revolver. William J. O'Brien, alius William Duffy, an insane .discharged .dis-charged soldier, today entered the War j department and golntf to the mall- and ! record division, shot - Robert J. Manning, Man-ning, a messenger, and Arthur Wieker, a clerk. One bullet narrowly missed Miss Emma Sexton, another clerk.' The injury to Manning is on the right side. , 1 1 , and is regarded.as dangerous. Wleker was shot in the arm. Before the maniac, could fire a third time he was overpowered by James J. Dawson, a. messenger. It required the combined strength of half a dosen men to finally subdue the man. Prominent among them was Lieut.-Gen. Edna . R. . Chaffee, chief of staff. The lunatic still held the smoking smok-ing weapon in his hand when Gen. Chaffee noticed it and with his left hand took the v weapon from him and also some papers in his pockets. O'Brien, or. Duffy, came to the War department early and hung around the building for more than an hour. He wa9 escorted to the record division by Charles Brandt, the chief of the division, divi-sion, and expressed dissatisfaction with his discharge papers. Then, without a word of warning he drew a pistol from his pocket and aimed It directly at Mr. Brandts head. Brandt ducked and the bullet entered the arm of Mr. Wleker. He then turned the weapon on Miss Saxton and fired. She, toor dodged, and 'the bullet struck Manning. There were five other clerks In the room at the time and but for the quicknesa of Messenger Dawson the maniac undoubtedly would have shot others. ' Dawson, however, grabbed him and held him until assistance came The greatest1 consternation prevailed in the 1 department when the sound o the shots were heard. Women rushed from the rooms screaming and soon were joined by a number of the male clerks. O'Brien was admitted to St Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's asylum in 1893. He was later paroled, pa-roled, but was returned in 1897. He served in the Sixth cavalry and. Third artillery. |