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Bloody Tragedy In N'«w Mexico.A prominent citizen MesicovTt\ J. MJ ■ Whitlock, • \vas4-eceritiy meat' brutally murdered by a wWe company of soldiers rrddlirig 'him witli balls, on ao counf pf a:figfit he bad 'with! thfclr Captain,^ named Gray don. I1 seems11 th/ifc • * Whitlock had cast some reflections up'ph GrajN don,in Connection withA/small? fight he, had with some Apactie ^ndlaps, ; Gj*ay-don demanded, satisfaction, aod Whitlock wrote a note-to Gray don whiqh he handed to him personally, in thb caiiip of Col: Carson, -at Pott. Stanton! Graydon i was not satisfied with the note an#, #rety,..£ pistol upon Whitlock, whereupon the: latter also drew, and they both fire# several -n:__±. t-:_„it'JniUUfi, UfttJ UUli UCLUlMUlg O^- I 1-* V MeJ; and Whitlock being, aliot .thrppgli thewrist and slightly in the .side, , -Whitlockthen -went into the Sutler’s store to get a gun, and.-what followed is told by »•‘Correspondents? the St:- Louis Democrat who writes on the 16th ult;: • !■*■ :OnGravdonh crying out that he: was murdered, his First Lieutenant; Morris: said to his company, “Your Gaptain has been murdered, let ua avenge b?a-dtmth and away they, went like a pack pf blood-, hounds for the sutler’s store,. whick they reached just aa the Doctor, came out, with the gtm in his hand. As soon as Lieut; Morris saw him,-he cried.out, “That's .the scoundrel—kill bim—kill him !”j At; the word, they commenced firing. .... -...One ball shattered the Doctor’s ■ wrist coinpletely, causing the gun' to' drdp from his band and he retreated back - into the store, which he.had hardly effected, when a. volley- was poured ip .through the. door and window of,the counting , room, into, which they soon effected ah entrance ; but. the’Doctor had esdaped by Andther outlet,’ and was evidently endeavoring- to 'reach the G.oloinel'aqoarters, where he.; knew hd would find protection j butit y?a».not so i to, be—for scarcely had be-left the . store, when the Luh arid cry was raised on every !. • . . ! = • ' • V.rrV - i - *__:
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Semi Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1862
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