Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — WEALTHY CHICAGOAN SHOT, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEALTHY CHICAGOAN SHOT,

Affray Takes Place in the Case of the Auditorium Annex. In a crowded dining Yoom of the Auditorium Annex in Chicago, where there were nearly 100 guests, most of them women, H. 11. Hammond shot John T. Shayne Tuesday afternoon. Three shots w’ere fired, two of which took effect.. Hammond made no attempt to escape, but surrendered to the house detective aud was locked up. Both men are well known in Chicago. Shayne being the head of the firm of John T. Shayne & Co., furriers. Hammond is a merchant tailor at 189 Wabash avenue. Jealousy of a peculiar nature was the passion that led Harry Hammond to wreak vengeance on John T. Shayne. Mr. Shayne was dining with the divorced wife of Hammond and two other ladies. Since her divorce Mrs. Hammond had been receiving the attentions of Shayne, who is a widower, and it was alleged they were soou to be married. It is not apparent that Hammond grieved over the loss of his wife by divorce; in fact, he made no effort to prevent her securing one. At the commencement of the shooting the ladies with Mr. Shayne fled to the palm gallery at the epd of the room. Mrs.

Hammond had seemed to fear trouble on observing Hammond enter the case, and had cautioned her companions not to speak to him. After the first shot the victim of Hammond's rage dropped under the table. A panic reigned in the hotel Immediately. Guests ran into the lobbies screaming for assistance, and waiters sought places of safety on the second floor. The assailant started to leave the room by the entrance to the lobby, but was confronted by the head waiter and chief clerk. He was led unresisting to the private office of the Annex, and taken into custody.

JOBS T. SHAYNE.