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uavc Olicauj V iwv,wv IU r vc»vj iuUnited Slates bonds. ■—7- Sidney L. Stephens was shot accidentally, it is said, a few days ago io Yanceyville. Tlioguu was loaded with shot, one shot taking effect just below the eye on the nose. It was so deep the doctors declined to probe for it, thinking the probiQg wouid endanger the eye. Stephens is deputy sheriff, and was in the act of delivering Nat Powell into the hands of the jailer when the gun wa3 discharged in the hand of Solomon Corbett. Corbett did not, after the shot, see BtepfceDs, but it is said he was shooting at a cow. The prisoner had a shot or two, and the deputy’s horse was badly shot, so much so aa to disable him. In 1889, Radical legislation,
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Wilmington Weekly Star
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Fri, Aug 20, 1880
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