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r or3verjcial2nevlt;cial5clotlcheipric6thebarj.sale\\any I haviMonroe special in Charlotte Observer: Mr. J. W. Lance, atraveling represent alive ol C.H. Robinson Company, of Charlotte, who was shot in the arm during an altercation with Hen Lewis Hood, a negro farmer, near Waxhaw last Monday, was brouglit to the Monroe Hospital yesterday evening lor treatment.I'lie wound is a serious one and there is a possibility that Mr. Lance may lose his arm.There are sever tl versions ol this affray in which Hood was shot through the heart and , in-stanlly killed. The report published in The Observer of Tuesday last was the Lance version, according to which Lance and a In I low traveler, T. O. Lambert, went to the negro's house to col-1 ••cl a bill for their firm, ami as soon as they entered; Hood, who bad threatened to shoot Mr Lance ii lie came there again, opened tire on him, and the latter.pulled his revolver at the t ame instant and shot Hood dead.Hood's wife lells an entirely different -tory. lor which there is some corroborative evidence.The woman says that-Lance and Lambert drove up in a buggy and Lambert remained in the carriage while Lance came into -\ the bouse and demanded s.-ttle- havt ment ol the act omit. Hood said v'nt■ that lie would not be able to pay it until he sold some eoHon.-j I. nice cursed and said he would -111 t wail any lolia. r and p .-king ^lt;0 1 up a o'clock, started to carry it i oil. Ho • 1 asked him IIlt;U lo lake _ n.\H' ilioelock and Lance pulled■ Ins revolver an 1 shot at Hood. Lambett beard t he shot and ran in at the back door with a double h irr di d shot gun. He tired at llood. Inning him in the buck, and a second shot troni Lambert's / gun took effect in Lance's arm.causing the wound from which i lie i- now suffering. In corrob i oration ol this version, it is -aid,- that an examination ol the body . showed that Ilmal had been shot i* in the b ick with a shotgun. .More e I over, Lambert stated that lie, i- was going to Monroe to give him lt;sell up, bin lie Inn no' done so.I ami. though Constable lt;'row s'arted al'tT him iirtnir-diati lv.eveimak0 i‘issue! best CCS IWo ey ohis wlteiaab .Its are still mi;now n.)
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The Lancaster News
Lancaster, South Carolina, US
Wed, Dec 05, 1906
Page 4
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