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Show THE STREETS OF CHICAGO. A Tragic Scene Enacted Yesterday, and the Villain Barely Escapes the mob. Chicago, Oct. 28. Five thousand people blockaded Monroe street, from LaSalle to Clark, at 6 o'clock this afternoon, and but for the dexterity of a couple of policemen would have hanged A. J. Burns to a lamppost. lamp-post. Shortly before the employes of the offices and printing establishments of the neighborhood were released from their day's labors, a young, well-dressed man entered the hallway of the building in which the offices of-fices of R. G. Dun & Co. are located and leaned against the wall as though waiting for some one. He closely watched the employes em-ployes streaming down the stairs,until catching catch-ing sight of two young women walking arm in arm, he sprang forward, drew a revolver and fired two shots in quick succession, and dashed out into the street, which was crowded with people going home from business. An officer promptly seized him and walked him back to the soene. Two women lay insensible insen-sible on the sidewalk. At the sight the would-be slayer became furious and attempted to tear himself from his captors. Somebody cried "lynch him?" The officers hustled the prisoner through the alley to the station. A crowd attempted to follow, but jammed itself fast in the narrow nar-row passage way. The wounded women were taken to the hospital where it is thought their wounds will prove fatal. The shooting it is alleged was a cowardly revenge re-venge taken by a former fellow employe in R. G. Dun & Co.'s office on the two women, who, claiming he had insulted them a day or two ago, caused his discharge. The young man, A. J. Burns by name, called at the office to-day and was told if he would apologize apolo-gize to the women, who are sisters, named Mrs, Ray Good and Lilian Walter, he could be reinstated. Burns left and was not seen again until arrested. Mrs. Good was shot in the neck. Her sister received a bullet in in the side of her head. Burns refuses to make any statement. |