Show J t Shot and Killed by the Sheriff ST Louis September 2Tl > GlobeDem ocrat has advices that the little town of Kirkwood twelve miles west of here on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was the scene of a bloody tragedy this afternoon It appears that Mrs Randall a highly respected lady of the place had sent her trunk to the i blacksmith shop of F W Bauchel f o have a key made for it Early in the afternoon the lady called for her trunk and while she was at the shop Mr Bauchel an unmarried man of 50 years endeavored to impress her with the idea that he was greatly smitten with her Mrs Randall received his advances ad-vances coldly whereupon Bauchel became angry and seizing a carbine which was in th < j shop fired at and shot the lady in one of her lower limbs Bauohel then I I marched up and down the street with his carbine and a dirk knife and defied arrest Sheriff Allen was sent for and when he arrived ar-rived called upon Bauchel to surrender but that individual who was now in a state of high excitement refused and opened fire on the officer The sheriff returned the fire and shot Bauchel twice once in the head and one in the groin inflicting wounds from the I effects of which he died this evening Mrs Randall who has a painful but not very serious wound was conveyed to her home I and the sheriff offered to surrender to the local authorities but at last accounts he had not been arrested Citizens generally consider con-sider that he only performed his official duty J I |