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The clerk says that the gentleman asked her , `` What do you want to see him for ? '' and that she replied , `` He is going to Europe , and I ought to just say good by . '' Col. Selby was informed ; and the lady and gentleman were shown to the parlor , in which were at the time three or four other persons . Five minutes after two shots were fired in quick succession , and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came . Col. Selby was found lying on the floor , bleeding , but not dead . Two gentlemen , who had just come in , had seized the lady , who made no resistance , and she was at once given in charge of a police officer who arrived . The persons who were in the parlor agree substantially as to what occurred .