The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-21

From the MorHAn county iAo.j
Murder md I.ynchinE In
Mixed Case OF Masrfmon ...
sions-Aorribae Tragedy "'' ~
ing OF the Criminal.
As we stated in our last weeks 'ss"e'
this Community was startled by the report
tha, Elijah Slocum, living on the 'sase
liver In this county, had been cruelty muir
',orei vt his home on Wednesday morning
of las, week, by an old man named h"'hs
onr readers will remember an account
NO o,ve some months since oil rather u
miycd marriage in Buffalo township
Tucker having entered the rebel service
nothing was heard of him for several years
then a rumor of his death; then the dis,
consulate widow marrying wealthy and
respected citizen named Slocum in the
course Of time q cry-sis another crisis in
the appearance Of Tucker, not dead, but
very much alive: 4 settlement Of the affair
by which Tucker got the wife baby, GER
tain amount Of bacon and other eatabies
We stated these facts in full at the time
After all this the fuckers seemed to live
quite unhappily, and Mrs. Tucker was
compelled 10 leave her home; she went 10
live with Mr.. Slocum. her former second
love, and who, it seems, treated her very
well. Tucker threatened Slocums life,
and il is somewhat singular that he Oslo
cum), fearing Tucker and guarding against
danger should not have iirc-arm In ms
house. ,
The testimony of Mrs. Tucker is, that
on the morning in question, little alter
duybrcak. Slocun. who had gone TO mix
his cows, came running and said, y They
are coming; they have shot AT me- that
he told her to take the hutcher-knltc and
club and run up stairs and guard the iei'
window: that while there she heard con
siderable confusion below, and Tucker
assembled half way up the ladder, intend
ing 10 Kill her, but by her cntrcatlcs She
prevailed on him to dcSi>t. When she
came down Slosum was lying on inc moo,
dead. Nothing else was disturbed, and
his nock.t> were not searched. She I'M
mcdiately gave the alarm, but the country
bciup thinlv inhabited il was quite con
siderable time before the neighb"rs collect
ed They then tracked Tucker, hy pc
culiar mark of hi, shoe sole, almost to his
house.
Constable Shocklry at once went to
Tucker to arrest him. and found him co"lly
a, work a short distance from the house,
He denied his guilt, but the statements he
made as to his whereabouts the night be-
fore were fatty contradictory. Tucker was
then taken to Slocum'S. where, in the pre-
>cncc of the victim Of his insatiatc revenge,
his wife gave the testimony above stated
The day being now far advanced, Com
stable Shockley took Mr.. Tucker to his
(Shocklcy's) residence. preparatory to
bringing him to this place to hand him
over to the sheriff: and, for greater secu-
rity, he employed Mr.. George Moon to as
sist him to guard him. Some time near
midnight he heard noise on the outside OF
his house, and upon going out 10 ascertain
the cause, was halted by some one unknown
to him. and asked ii Ewing Tucker was in
the hoitsc. Shockley now saw some fifteen
or twenty men, all BACKED and disguised
lie attempted to reason with the crowd
but was cut short hy being told to shut up
or his brains would be ventilated with Il
bullet. At this he started to run round the
house where the door was open. but the
mob had forced the front door open and
were taking Tucker off.
When the mob had got short distance
from the house he heard several shots
fired. and next morning found Tucker dead
being shot in almost the identical spot
!, hnr, Lic victim WAS the morning before.