Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 December 1900 — Page 9

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A BLOODY TRAGEDY

Joe Douglas Shoots Char.ley Doyle and Frank Parrish.

The Affray Occurs at the Home of

Douglas Who Used a Shot Gun

In His Sanguinary Work-

Douglas In Jail.

Last Sunday afternoon Joe Douglas shot and probably fatally injured Charles Doyle and Prank Parrish, the tragedy occuring at the Douglas dive, just east of the Wabash avenue bridge over the Monon cut. Douglas was promptly arrested and is now in jail awaiting the result of the injuries of the men.

The circumstances leading up to the tragedy are easily told. The wife of Douglas is a woman of bad repute who became acquainted with Parrish soon after he came here a year ago. She soon took him to her home as a roomer and a boarder and there was apparently no trouble until last May when one fine night Parrish got drunk and proceeded to "stack the furniture." Douglas who had been tolerably tame at home up to this time interposed objections to the actions of his wife's friend and was promptly tossed Into the street by the burly blacksmith. He ran down town bare headed and having secured the police went home and had Parrish arrested. Parrish was fined the following day and ceased to room at the Douglas place. He continued his intimacy with the woman, however, and on Hallowe'en had a pitched battle with Douglas at the Douglas home whither he had gone to see his female friend. Douglass got all the better of this tight. He knocked Parrish down with a heavy weight and then beat bis face in a horrible manner. Parrish was laid up for two weeks for repairs and was very angry to think that he should have been bested by so insignificant an individual as Douglas. It is said that he vowed he would even up scores.

Sunday afternoon he fell in with Charley Doyle and both men being intoxicated they started for the Douglas place, whether to sec the woman or to light the man. no one will ever know. Both men were pretty drunk and staggered as they walked along Wabash avenue, attracting considerable attention. One of them carried a stick. When they arrived at the house of Douglas they attempted to get in the front door by knocking. No one answered so they went to the back door and knocked there. As to what followed there is a dispute. Prom th6 condition of affairs at the house and from what the parties concerned say it is likely, however, that Douglas answered the knock without opening the door and that angry words and threats were exchanged that Parrish or Doyle then kicked the door in and started to enter the h"use seeing Douglas coming from the front room they turned tail and ran out, Parrish stopping at the window some ten or fifteen feet west of the door Douglas had by this time stepped into the back room and lired his gun through the window directly into Parrish's face, Parrish falling almost in his tracks: Douglas then stepped out of the door and shot Doyle as he ran away. The facts may be different but they will probably never be known. Douglas claimed next morning that both men were in the house when he lired, but this is false on the face of it. Through the window and wire screen are two holes as though two shots had been lired from a close range through and not seven feet from the window on a direct line with the course of the charge was a great pool

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of blood where Parrish first fell. His face was simply torn oil' and he bled profusely. -Blood gushed of course as soon as the wound was indicted, yet there wa? no blood in the house or from the door leading to the spot where the pool was. Parrish was passing the window or looking in when shot.. Doyle was evidently not shot through the window as if he had been passing it when shot, as Douglas claimed in his statement to Marshal Brothers last Sunday, the wound would have been under the right and not the loft shoulder blade.

After Doyie was shot he kept on running. He crossed the Wabash avenue bridge and in a staggering trot managed to get as far as the residence of William Johnson, before ho finally fell

JOE DOUGLAS. The Man With the Gun.

on the grass, more than a hundred yards from the place of the tragedy. Parrish lay where he fell for a few moments and then staggering to hi'3 feet felt his way around thr house, falling in the gutter, covered with blood and groaning piteously. Some little colored boys were the first to him and he bc^-^d them to kill him, saying he wanted his misery ended there on the spot.

After Douglas did the shooting he crossed the street to the home of Robert Greenleaf and told him to go and telephone for the police to come out, as he had shot two i.ien. This Greenleaf did and the whole police force came out on the jump, a regular army following" in their wake.

Officer Doyle was the first of the officers to arrive and as he came up to the bridge he found his brother lying helpless. He stopped by him for a moment and exchanged a few words. Then he went over the bridge and arrested Douglas, starting for the jail at once. Two cabs were soon on the scone and Dr. Ensminger gave both men a passing examination before they were removed. Parrish was taken to the hospital department at the jail, and Doyle to the home of his brother, Officer Elza Doyle,on Simpson street.

Marshal Brothers made an examination of the premises soon after he arrived. He found that the back door had been forced open, the lock being broken. There was nothing to indicate that either man had been shot while in the house, but on the other hand there was conclusive proof that both were outside. Douglas had certainly fired one shot and probably two through the window. It is likely that he fired twice and then putting a new shell in stepped out and fired again. When the gun was opened after the shooting there was only one shell in it and this had been fired. Several of the people in the neighborhood heard three shots and Greenleaf, who lives across the street, says his family heard only one.

is likely that they did not hear

the shot or shots Douglas fired in the house. It was thought last Sunday that neither man would survive the night, so terrible were their injuries. Both were men of powerful constitutions, however, and they were able to withstand the first shock that would have proved fatal to ordinary men. Parrish received the full charge in his face and his features are obliterated. Dr. Ensminger last Monday stated that unless blood poisoning sot in, which is probable, he might pull through as a wreck but he hardly looks for oven this. He thinks both eyes are out in spite of what Parrish says of getting a gleam of light Monday morning.

The charge that Doyle received was fired from a distance of perhaps twenty feet and entered under the left shoulder blade. Tho hole made was about the size of a half dollar and scattered shot over a circumference perhaps six inches in diameter. The wad was sticking in the wound and had to be removed. Most of the shot "lodged in the

lung. Doyle will probably die but if ho should rally he will not live long anil will be a pitiful wreck and hopeless invalid.

Monday moruinir at sown oVIook a representative of Tini JOUK.VAT, visited Douglas at the jail. Turnkey Long brought the prisoner out in tho corridor and Douglas, who isan inofTensive looking fellow, smilingly said good morning. lie wore a dark flannel shirt and a brown every day suit of clothes. He combs his hair pompadour and his eyes looked rather bloodshot. When, asked if he had spent a good night, he replied in a low tone, "Not very.'' Ho wuS asked to tell his side of the story, but at first refused, saying that he would tell all the truth of the affair when he was brought up for trial. Finally, however, he consented to talk and his story was substantially as follows: '"I had been out in tho country [to my brother's visiting and had on my old clothes. 1 have been working out there and had taken'my shotgun with me and brought it back with me. It was loaded with shells containing number six shot and was a double barrelled gun. I had in my coat pocket two or three shells that I had not taken out when 1 came home. My wife had gone to Lafayette on the afternoon train and 1 was by myself in the house. The gun was sitting in the corner of the front room and 1 was sitting in a rocking chair, when about three o'clock 1 heard some men talking at my back door. I recognized

Parrish's voice and thought the other fellow was Bill Shular, as Parrish had said Bill was going to help him clean me. Parrish kicked at the back door and exclaimed: 'Let mo in you G- d— sof a b— for I am going to kill you.' Ho continued to kick at the door and said, 'If you don't let me in I'll shoot your door down.' He finally kicked the door in and jumped into the room. I thought I saw a weapon of some kind in his hand and feared it might bo a revolver, as he had threatened to shoot. vp.e. I was in the front room and as he started toward me, 1 let him have one of the barrels, shooting across the two rooms at him. Then 1 let him have the second barrel, or I supposed it was him, as the room was full of smoke and 1 could not see anyone. He left the house and fell where they found him I suppose, and I went to tho front of the house and looked around to see if there were any more of them. Then I started down the street with the gun in my hand, intending to give myself up. But 1 concluded that 1 would leave the gun at Greenleaf's across the street and went into the house to got my hat. While I was in there I sat the gun down in the front room and then left the house, starting for town down Wabash avenue. Just as I got to the bridge 1 saw Elza Doyle coming up the avenue, and I held up my hand and said 'Hello Elza.' lie told me to throw up my hands and asked me if had dono tho shooting. 1 told him that I had and we-started back to town. Then he told me that one of the men was his brother, Charley, and that he had passed him lying down by the sidewalk the other side of tho bridge. When 1 heard that :t was Parrish trying to get in I knew I had to kill him or he would kill me, as he had threatened to do so several times. Parrish used to board and room at my house about a year ago, and we had a falling out and he left. He threatened then that he would get even with mo and has tried to do so several times. He has been up to my house several times since at nights trying to get in. and Hallowe'en night 1 licked him in good shape, although he Is a much bigger man than 1 am. That mado him madder than over and I have been expecting trouble ever since. He had threatened to bring Bill Shular with him to help him and 1 supposed it was Shular with him. I never saw either man until they tried to get in my back door, and then I did not know that one of them was .Charley Doyle. Doyle and me were pretty nearly raised together and we were always good friends. I would not have shot Charley for anything in tho world,and did not know that he was around when I fired. The first that know that I had hit Charley was when his brother told me. I only fired two shots, and both of them were in the house, and I do not know how in the world I happened to hit Doyle. Parrish was the only man I saw, although 1 heard both of them talking. I was in the front room when 1 shot, and I. suppose Doyle might have been on the outside and passing tho window, because the w'Qdow was in range from whore I fired."

Whilo Douglas was still speaking

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Respectfully yours, A. C.

JACKSON,

M. D.

PART SECOND

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Bud Barton came into the jail and spoke to Douglas. The reporter asked Barton how Doylo was, or if ho had heard any thing of his condition. Barton replied that he had just came by there and some of the neighbors told him Charley was dead. Upon hearing this news, Douglas squirmed uneasily and tried to smile, but it was a ghastly effort. Tie reiterated his previous assertion that he had not, meant to kill Doyle and that ho did not know that he had shot anybody but Parrish.

Parrish was In the upper tier of cells and whon Tine JOURNAL man en-. tered his cell attempted to get up off his cot. His face was covered up, but his shirt bosom was open and his broast was peppered with shot. The bandage was removed from his faco and ho said thickly: "I believe that 1 can see the light with both eyes. There was a kind of a flicker then and 1 don't believt that I am going to he blind." His face was a terrible sight, his head being swollen to twice its normal size. When asked how he felt he said 'pretty good.' He was asked to make a short statement and in answer to questions spoke as follows: "Doyle and me went up to Douglas'to see Mrs. Douglas, but wo found nobody at home. We went to tho backdoor and knocked, but could not raise anybody, and while Doyle was*: stilly trying to get in the door I started away, telling him that we had better come on back to town. As 1 stnrtei! off I thought I heard someone holler and turned around. Justus I turned around someone shot through the window and

I got the load right in the face. I staggered and fell, and could not got up. I did not kuow Douglas was in tho house until I was shot, and was not sure thou that it was Douglas. I do not know how Doyle got shot. I under-, stand that Douglas said I was peeping in the window. That's not so, because if I had been it would have blown my head off. I had three teeth knocked out by the shot."

Parrish is a powerfully built fellow, and whon he was taken to tho jail Sunay he was searched for weapons, and in one of his pockets was found a stone tied up in a handkerchief.

Douglas appeared vory anxious tose« his wife, and said that ho expected her home on tho night train, and wondered if she would come down to see him.

Parrish's mother came over from Richmond at midnight Sunday but did not see her son until Monday afternoon. To a JOURNAL man she told tho following story Monday: "'[•'rank is my only child and was thirty-two years oid the tenth of this month. Frank has always been an industrious boy. though addicted todrink. He has been acquainted with the Douglas woman for two years, at one time boarded with her, and when taken sick a year ago at Indianapolis, sent for her to nurse him which she did. Three months ago Mrs. Douglas came to Richmond and spent three days with me. A.t this time she told me that she was going to got a divorce from Douglas and marry Prank, but told her she could never marry Prank as she had no grounds for divorce, but she said she could secure it for non-support. I told her that until she did secure a divorce that she and Frank should have nothing to do with each other as it would be sure to cause trouble, but she said Joe did not care who she went with just so she got some money. Prank at this time worked at Williamsburg and was not at home. I know Prank did wrong to associate with this woman but still 1 have a mother's love for a son that makes me feel badly toward the man who tried to kill him 1 have no hard feeling toward the woman she and I have corresponded ever since she visited me, arid I have the letters at home. I am going back home to-day as I left my two canaries and my dog locked up in the house and they will starve if I don't get back, but I will return here to-morrow and will bring the letters with me. Of course if Douglas loves

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