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trate man over the head with themusket. He then left him and came to town to get a doctor and give htmwitf up.A I, IX)WED TO GO OK HI80WN RECOGNIZANCE.Richey told his story to Trustee Steaiey and private policeman Win. Taylor, the latter taking him before Mayor Warder, who, hearing the story, and convinced that it was a case of self defence, allowed the manto go on his own recognisance, toappear in the City Court this morning.doctor’s and reporter’s tramp.By this time Dr. McKinney was ready to go and led by a young man named Long accompanied by a reporter started for the scene of action equipped with compresses and other necessary surgical instruments. It was a long and lonelytramp, through an almostpitch dark night, whose gloom wasing camp at the island, came to thehouse to see if Richey were .at home.#The dog then snapped at Munz who wounded the beast. They left and went upstream. Meanwhile Richey .returned and made threats that he would shoot Munz if he returned.After 6 o’clock, Fuller and Charles Munz returned to the bank, the latter slightly under the influence of liquor. Munz ascended the bank while Richey stood at the top witha musket, telling him not to comeon. Munz said: “Surely you won’t shoot me for coming up the bank!”another version op the shootingRichey raised his musket as as if to Are and Munz drew a pistol,saying; “Took,pijiU don’t shoot.” Then there imi quick simultaneous repeat, Munz threw up his hands | reeled and fell, a stream of blood rushing from the gaping wound. Richey ran up to the prostrate manonly heightened by the solitary lantern in the hands of the guide. After reaching the junction of the New Albany shorttine, the party had totramp through a wheat field, dripping with dew and all were well soaked, when at last the lights in the window of the shanty and the murmur of voices showed that they had reach* •lt;*THE SCENE OF THE AFFRAY.Upon a miserable bunk in a stilland clubbed him. Fuller leaped outof the shift and interposed and then they carried Munz up the hank, laid him upon the porch and Richey went tor the doctor. The woman was also a witness of at least a part of the affray. When Fuller had told his story, the boys compelled Riehey to go back to town, and recommit himself and he was started back under escort of John Russ and Albert Fuller. This was evidently thebest that could be donemore miserable shanty just large as Richey was hardly sfae in his old enough to contain it, a stove, a shelf shanty, surrounded by men who seem -and a table, with bursty room enough I ed to think that he was a murderer, left to turn around in, lay the wound- The doctor and his party also started ed man, gaping for air, surrounded tor home, leaving Munz alone with by a Haifa dozen of rough looking the woman and one or two xneh, to men and the woman Hogeland. flght his battle with grim death.The 9cene, with all its accessories Munz is or was a young man of aboutup. Just asr the engine reached the middle of the street, Harry was suddenly seized with vertigo and fell forward on the track. The cow-catcher caught him and he was rolled over a distance of about forty feet before the train came to a stand. Whentaken out he was found to be badlybruised about the shoulder, cut on the face, near the left eye, bruised about the body and hips. iHe was assisted home by some boys and a surgeon sent for. No bonce were broken,but he was very seriously bruised, clothes bloody ond tom. The only wonder is he was not killed. The attending physician thinks that the the haste with which he ate his breakfast and the run caused a slight attack of vertigo.—N. A. col. C.-J.Death of the Second Biehop ofVincennes.Celeetine G. de la Heilandiere, formerly a lawyer in France, became a priest and accompanied the first bishop of Vincennes, the Riglit Rev. Simon Gabriel Brute, to Indiana in 1836. Bishop Brute, died in 1839, and the Very Rev. Celeetine de la Heilandiere, who was his vicar general, and had just been appointed coalt;yutor, became his successor. He worked faithfttlly for eight years for the diocease of Vincennes, and resign ed in 1874. He has ever since resided at his castle of Triandin, Brit-anny, France, and has never forgotten his former diooese, sending often material aid. He departed this life May the 1st. aged 84. Requi-escat in peace.Mfae Ella Meadows is visiting Miss Ella; Yarbough on the New Albany ro^d.condi on ha achp then ito the girl a she Si in nshe fe timearousCorknowmontthe J; He w regulhast*withknewtend*my p neveilikedwe hi to kil matt* out ir deed.in a Iwork my n trunliaboutchaseandNoahGreeisix m fromtowaito tlx each drug enouj
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Jeffersonville National Democrat
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Thu, May 25, 1882
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