Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — A LEGISLATOR SHOT AT. [ARTICLE]

A LEGISLATOR SHOT AT.

Attempt to Kill HOll. G. S. Bailey, a Member of the Illinois Legislature. The Ball Stopped by Books and Papers —Was It the Deed of an Anarchist? A , [SpriDgfield (lU.)>special.] A cold-blooded attempt to assassinate Representative George S. Bailey, the Baited Labor member from East St. Louis, was made Tuesday* evening.. About 9 o’clock Mr. Bailey approached the door of his boarding-house, Mr. S. S. Elder s, on Capital avenue, near the Alton track. The house has an,ample yard, and nothing intervenes between it and the railroad embankment a few rods to the west, the' railroad heie crossing the avenue by a bridge. Mt. Bailey says he was facing his door when the discharge of a pistol sounded from the vacant lot, and he staggered into bis house and to his anxious wife awaiting him in their iront room, on the ground floor. Mr, Bailey was seen shortly after. but could furnish little speculation regarding the would-be murderer or his motives. Mr. Bailey’s escape was not of an uncommon kind, but his life-preserver was certainly effectual. When he reached his room, uncertain if •shot or not, search was made for any trace of the bail, the shock of which he had felt as it struck his person. Throu h a heavy coat it had penetrated, then through his Prince Albert, nnd tbrougn a pamphlet or two, and quite through one of the leatherbound books of rules earned by the members, finally > pending itself against the cover of a still thicker memorandum book. The entire package rested ihiee or four inehee below his heart, and in it was found, the 32-ball. It will be remembered that Mr*Aßailey and Mr. Karlowshi, the latter also a Labor I party member of the House, signed a reao- | iution le iSina Senator Burke and Repre- | sen alive Kolirbar h out of the Labor party i last week so attending the funeral of Anar hist Neebe s wife. It is said that letters have been received in this city, saying that these “traitors” would be dealt with in some way soon.