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‘*S f; ’r•-wV - .- *- . 7“ V-.4. •‘A*• ■Dis-fortth,notltli:the•• f' r r *i- ':-*Vi'to “Fix *•*.*•v *» % •* -Great Excitement in OHfty Town-ship Over the Outrages♦ *v«*•7.:ar-ad;engo,ndfit.meAne,:henyadet,toadforhendhehehethte-!k--it.The Eyenti Recalls tlie Cooper Murder • In.All of its Mystorious Details.-No Ijlfihr. as Vet ou ’r ■*: , Tim AfTdr.A sensation was created : here onSunday morning by the report that an attempt had been made to killEvan Fix by firing two loads of buckshot into him at ■ short range. ,The particulars of the shooting were hard to get at, and the wildest rumors prevailed. Some had it thru. 4iis head was blown nearly off with two loads of buckshot, and that he died instantly, while others reported that he wasnot dead, but was mortally wounded.Dr. Banker and Sheriff Brown went out in tine afternoon, and they learned the true state of affairs.They found Fix able to be up, his wounds of a painful nature, but none of the shot touched a vital spot or penetrated very deep. As he was able to travel it was thought best, as a measure of safety, for Fix to come to town. He was brought down-and took lodging at the Western Hotel. On Monday he was on the streets, and in an interview gave the particulars of the shooting, with the following diagram of the premises:W*»I ateranedheWBedis-it-he i to id [idbotoht3dheasatmK*wI*•♦••**44**444► 4 4t 44•*•4•••AAV♦tJ***1 % « 1•► ♦ f :«*V €E•••♦•♦1••♦•S 1t#♦**•:•••W•♦A♦•Du-‘yisy300.i)150ite is ***rej-i[1nsaeExplanation—A—Where strange tracks wcro fount!.B—Where the person stood when the first shot was 11 red.C—Point from which the second shot wasfl red.I)—Window ttiled with shot from first fire. E-r-Door peppered by second shot*F—Where Fix stood at botii shots—just outside and then just Inside the door.V—Veranda.S—s/ttinft- room.IC—Kitchen.The «uto to which Fix went on Koinir out Is directly opposite the veranda, east.The iiousc fronts east, and la located on a road leading- north from tho Huetevlllo pike onodinif mile wost of tho toll unto. It Is nearly bull* mile north of tho pike.After the shooting Dr. Chrisler was called in and extracted eight shot from the back nud neck. Fix stages that there had been a large crowd at the sale that day and when all had left the dogs made some noise barking but he did not pay much atten tion to them. At about halt past nine he went out to the gate, and after standing a few moments and seeing nothing unusual, turned and walked back, and passing along the veranda which is nine feet long, he opened the door. As soon as the light fiom the stand fell on his face, there was a flash and a loud report, apparently a few feet behitid him from the corner of the front room. He ste pped forward into the room and fell a few feet from the door. He was in tlie act of cocking his revolver as he raised from the floor when a second shot was fired Into the room from the second post of the veranda five feet from the front door. One of the shot fram this discharge struck him on the thumb nail of the left hand. When. Mrs. Fix heard the report of the first shot, she stepped across in front of the door and made a narrow escape from the second charge, the shot from which passed through the room some of them lodging in the wood, work of the door that leads from the sitting room into the kitchen. Mignon Boas and wife, Mrs. Fix. Miss Mary Fix and Evan were in the room but all escaped the second charge with the exception of the shot which struck Evan’s thumb. The shot, which are of the size known as No. 2, that struck Fix were scattered from halfway up his back to tl.e base of his brain, one of the shot going through the left ear. Fix thinks that when he went to to the gate the man or men were standing at the corner of the front room farthest from him, and that when he started back they followed him to the other corner of the room—which is sixteen feet long—and fired, and that they advanced to tho middle of tho veranda before firing the second load, which, he says, filled tho room with smoke.. Nine of the shot, he says, were found on Monday in the sitting room In a wad,of cotton and cloth that came out of his coat.—On being questioned as to tho probable cabse of thb sliootlng Fix'.remarked that ho thought, perhaps,as there•was con s I d era b! emon eyV-a boo t -thehouse, the proceeds of tlie sAle of t hat day, that robbery J as well as m urder, was ihe object. He said tbit his brother, Will, wa8 told, last fall, at th e Old Set t)era* Mceti nW, a t Waynes-jjurgito tell him (Evan) to leave, if he did. noi want to he killed; bat that,as this was a free country, he paid no attention to the threat. He statedtoday that he had u suspicion as to Who attempted his life, but said it was' not any of (lie CobpeV family.There seems jo be some discrepancies in the account of the shooting as given by Evan Fix. He says h/s ueck was burned by the first shot and showed the place, but he must ho mistaken, as the shot would not have scattered so much if the muzzle had been close enough to fburn the flesh. He said also that tracks were seen by the veranda, made by persons in theirsbek feet.At the time tho shooting was done the ground was hard frozen, and tracks could not have been made by a person In their sock feet, From the way the shot scattered in the house and by the side of the veranda door, It would seem thut the person doing the shooting would be forty or fifty feet off. Fix, thinks also that the shooting wasi done with a Jarge pistol loaded with shot, but two chambers of a revolvei would not hold as many No. 2 shot after the powder was put in as are to be seen about the house and in Fix’s . person. The affair is shrouded in mystery, hut it Is the prevailing opinion that some oneshot-Fix out ot revenge for his connection with the Cooper murder, which is fresh in the minds of all Herald readers. The shooting of Fix occurred just one year and onemonth from the night that George Cooper met his death at the hands of murderers. The family expected to leave here for Alabama on Wednesday, but this affair tnay delay them for some days, as they will attempt to find out who did the shooting. Fix went home in the afternoon, and said he would stay there, until ready to start south, in spite of his enemies.A Flagman Need ail.Wm. Lawhead • came near being run over by a switch eugine yesterday evening at the Third street crossing of the Madison branch. This is a dangerous crossing, and the council should pass an ordinance, requiring the railroad company to place a flagman at that place. Cars generally sto'nd on the switches down there in such a way, that it is a difficult matter to see a train until very close to the track.We have been promised six *‘set-tins” of eggs if we will keep mum, and not give away the name of the man who took that ground and lofty tumble, in company with a big basket of eggs, near Elizabethtown, off oi conductor Whedon’s train on last Saturday. The traid men declare that some of the hen fruit lodged on the bank, fifteen feet above the grade of the railroad track.WhenSheiby villestrikes gas wean-going up to assist in the “green corn dance” around that well that is sure to follow.—Columbus Herald.Come up, and if you don’t behave yourself we will tumble youin.-Shel. Rep.This Is one of the grandest openings ever offered us. The well will have a show*of gas in that hole then, sure. 'The protracted meetings in different part of the country the past month, have been very successful, and many brands have been plucked from the flames. It would seem that the people are in earnest in turning over a new leaf.Win. Denny, who has been on trial for a week for shooting Win. Flemming with Intent to kill, was concluded on Saturday, the jury giving him a three years sentence in the Southern Prison. He was taken toJeffersonville Monday fromShelby-ville.You are Very Correct.Seymour Horn,f Columbus had a considerable fire, (Saturday which was controlled by the department before serious damage was done. Columbia has a good water works system.Wanted . *tForty horses and mares, heavy and light, Saturday and Monday. Feb. 5th aud 7th-at Dan Smith’s Livery Stable. Charley Decker.dwFrank Crump bus lost several flue cattle, milch cows and calves, within the past two weeks. * Two dieil Ic town and four or five on the Topley farm. He is at a loss to determlm the nature of their disease. ■A prominent Republican, and c UrstciivBs Christian, remarked a daj or twe ngo; that Green Smith was a ‘‘dirty dog!” vu0h, wad some power,” etc.,etc. ; V'-.V-;
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Columbus Herald
Columbus, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 04, 1887
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