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arrests.Our town was startled last Friday evening about 8 o’clock by the mop or that Wm. Harris had been shot at the saloon. This proved true. Harris had been on a prolonged spree, and had been making the saloon of D. M. Kelly his headquarters. On the above evening he was on a big carouse around the establishment. Jas. Kelly,a son of the proprietor, though himself considerably under the influence of liquor repeatedly warned young Harris to desist from his conduct, to which no attention was paid. Finally Harris called him by a vulgar epithet, and upon Kelly asking if he meant what he said, and getting a reply in the affirmative immediately drew a 32 calibre revolver and fired at short range. Harris was at once conveyed to the office of Dr. Reynolds, who discovered that the bullet had entered the left side only two inches above the heart. It passed beneath the shoulder blade clear through the body, and was extracted from the back without having touched a vital spot. The wounded man was then taken to the Bowell house for the night. Kelly told Harris he flred with the intention of killing him; that'he had served a term in the penitentiary for killing a man, and that he permitted no man to go unpunished who insulted him in the manner Harris had. The presumption was that Kelly would be arrested, but this was not done,eaHethitered,da;wtBlitraintraaoaofChthearewfcyoW€theaolt;ChW€irDameReIneumlbalainoonrefDireefo]unith Harris and bis father declining ^to prosecute, and thus the case rests. W( The wounded man was out on thestreets the following day, though warned by his physician that he would receive no treatment for his injury unless he remained in doors. Our town being without a constable, the tough element have everything their own way, the magistrates never witnessing any disorderly conduct of course are powerless to summon special constables, as the law directs may be done. But the worst of it is, no one desires the office of constable. It is a place of risk and responsibility if properly filled, and there is no pay adequate with the risks incurred. Every town constable ought to have a salary instead of the beggarly fees he is enabled to pick up at rare intervals. Then the law would not be such a dead letter in the smaller towns.To-day the old year is passingPiresph€tifrlt;feFlt;rewgfreresvfl
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New Albany Evening Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 02, 1891
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