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FATHER KILLED, HIS SON SHOOTS DOWN ATTACKER
Colored Man Surprised
In Salisbury Office
During Murder
ALREADYHADWOUNDED SELF, TRYING SUICIDE
Then Receives Fatal Bullet As He Attempts To Escape
Salisbury, Dec. 5—Mac Williams, Negro, who shot and killed his employer, Daniel J. Elliott, in the latter's office here this afternoon, then shot himself. Despite his wound, he made an effort to escape and was shot a second time by Mr. Elliott's son. He died a short while later in a local hospital.
Salisbury, Md., Dec. 4r—D. 3. Elliott a .'manufacturer of strawberry an:i cantaloupe crates, was shot and killed in his o lice here this afternoon by a colored man who was wounded and captured by Elliott's son, James D., Jr.
A crowd gathered outside Elliott's office after the shooting, and threats against the colored man, who had been taken to the Emergency Hospital, were heard. The crowd lingered in the street for more than an hour and grew larger as time passed.
No motive for the shooting could be learned and no identification of the colored man, who was unable to identify himself after he had been shot, could be made. He walked into Elliott's office, on Lake street, just a block from Main, and strode to a rear room, where the elder Elliott was sitting.
Under his arm the visitor had 9 shotgun. So far as is known, he and Elliott exchanged no words before he raised the weapon and fired. The charge struck Mr. Elliott in the head and he died almost instantly.
His son, who is about 30 years old, had come into the office after the colored man and was in an outer room. When he heard the report of the shotgun he ran to a safe, grabbed a pistol from it and hurried to the back Iroom, meeting the colored man con»-jing out.
He fired once, his bullet striking the man with the shotgun in the head.
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