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Show NEGRO KILLED I 8 ROW IN MAJESTIC SOCIAL CLUB j Charles Vaughan a 20-year-old ne gro. was killed last night by a bullet from a pistol held by Anderson Kyle The shooting occurred in 11 room at the Majestic Social club. 159 Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street, about 9: 16 o'clock, but its dire result was not learned by the police until nearly an hour later. Kyle, who is the proprietor of ihe club. 6Tj himself up to the officers about 1 1" a. m today Police Sergeant Charles Layne nnd Patrolman Sullivan heard the Shooting and started to investigate They found a number of negroes in front of the Assembly saloon, near the Majestic Ma-jestic club, but none of them would tell anything About an hour afterward, after-ward, Mike Allen, a negro, walked into the police station and informed hrsk Sergeant H.mhart Anderson of the shooting and the latter informed Sergeant Layne, In a few minutes the body of Vaughan was found ;n the c-lub room, lying on the floor In a pool of half-congealed blood, ihdl-catinc ihdl-catinc that the man had been dead about an hour The bullet had entered en-tered the head behind the left ear and had torn virtually all or the back of the bead off. Later in the evening, the officers located several negroes who were in the room at the time of the shooting and one of them. R. T Suttle wa booked as a witness and, according to his story, he and Vaughan went to the club room together Vaughan was drunk and was ordered out by W 1 I n 1-J . . . . T . . f . I r , r. .nl thn T.rrv. pnetor started to put him out fore )lbly At this, Vaughan said that he would go. but wouldn't be pushed out 'Kyle who was quite angry by this time, went into another room and came out with a revolver He hit Vaughan on the head with the gun and at the same time it went off. aughan dropped to the floor, with blood Btreaming from his head, nnd all of the men in the room ran out. Suttle s stors was virtually ormbo-rated ormbo-rated by Mike Allen and also by Kyle, who made the following statement concerning the shooting: "I am a man who would not hurt any one anil wish no man any harm. The bo s came to the saloon and they got noisy I ordered them out and they went upstairs. Twice the man in charge came to me for help and said they were beyond his control. I told Vaughen he would have to leave He didn't go Then he reached for his pocket with one hand and acted as though he was going to strike with the other and I immediately struck at him with the pistol I guesg the force of the blow caused the pistol to go off I didn i know I had really shot him until long afterward ' Kyle is well known among the negro ne-gro population of the citj and has conducted the Majestic club for som time Vaughan is also well known here having been employed for some months past as a porter at the Royal barber shop on l"went tonnh street, lie formerly lived in Kansas City. The body was removed to the Liml-nulst Liml-nulst mortuary and K!e was locked up on an open charge |