Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-05-09
Reart-rendjng Tragedy.

II DSItiiICS Gut pttllIl uOLN toitCCtu
a most heart-rendmg tragedy that was
enacted in our village yesterday. The
parties engaged in it were Dir. Elisha
w. Harris, DIR. PIatt Groom, and Mr..
Pleasant May. Mr.. Harris was killed,
DR.. Groom, we learn, was shot in both
arms, and one shoulder,-his wounds
however, are not considered dangerous.
Mr.. May was also badly, though not
dangerously wounded.
Some six or eight pistol shots were
fired and the wonder is, that all three
of the parties were not killed. The
fighting was commenced near the Post
Office door, and was continued across
the street to the old Mansion House,
where Mr. Harris received a bowie knife
wound, inflicted, we understand, by
DR.. Groom, which caused his death al
most instantaneously.
We are not sufficiently advised Of
the particulars of this most heart-rend-
ing affair to attempt recital of them
though we understand it had its origin
in a disagreement. between MIR. Harris
and DIR. Groom, i'll regard to 4 fence
boundary.
The parties, we would remark, are
among the most respectable of our cit
liens. Mr.. Harris had lived in this
neighborhood some two years, and in
our village since the first of January.
DR.. Groom and Nlr. May were raised
in our village.
MIR. Harris was originally from A
thens, Ca, but moved to this county
from Columbus, Miss. He was most
worthy man, highly esteemed by those
who enjoyed the pleasure of an acquain-
tance with him. He married, some
three years ago, to Miss Irene Taylor,
of this place, and soon after moved to
this county.
Besides his deeply afflicted widow,
he leaves two children, a large family
of relatives, and numerous friends to
mourn his truly melancholy end.
Probably we have not in our COM
munity, three more orderly and peace
able citizens, than the three that were
engaged in this most melancholy affair;
and no occurrence, we may add, has
transpired in our town, during the six
teen years we have lived in it, that was
more unexpected, or that caused any
thing ike the amount of deep, heart
felt anguish than this has done. Could
the actors in this awful tragedy have
foreseen the amount of heaft-rending
suffering they have inflicted upon 9TH
ers,, and among them their own fond
relatives, no earthly consideration, it
seems to US, could have induced them
to have engaged in it. But we forbear
to say more.-Greensboro.( Ala) Beacon.
LATER-Dr. Plat Groom and Dir. Plea
SAINT May, who were. engaged in the most
distressing occurrence noticed In our last
week S issue, are stiH suffering considerably
from their wounds. Mr.. Mays case has
been considered q pretty critical one-tho'
we believe he is now considered measure
bly, out of danger. Their situation, as yet,
has not been such as to allow of their being
taken to Eutaw Though confined to their
beds, they are strictly guarded, day and
night, and viii we understand, be taken to
Eutaw, for legal investigation, as soon as
their physicians think is at all safe for them
TO be removed Greensboro Beacon.
New CoNUNDRUMs.-What occupa-
ton would you recommend to very
small mani GroU sir-Grocer.
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