Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-23
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT GRENADA,
MISSISSIPPI.
Two Men Shot and Killed By In
known Hands.

BY parties, who arrived in the city at
a late hour last night, we learn the fol-
lowing particulars regarding two muir
ders perpetrated in Grenada, on Friday
and Saturday evenings last. 1t appears
that a man named Tell, said to be very
recently a citizen Of Memphis, was on a
visit 10 a family named Shankle, on Fri
day evening, and while sitting in the
parior, some one walked up from
the outside and knocked at the
window, which instantly attracted
the attention Of the parties inside.
One Of the gentlemen in the parior,
walked to the window, booked out, and
and turning back, remarked 10 Tell that
there was somebody in the yard. Tell
Immediately arose, walked TO the front
door, accompanied by a young lady, and
stood there but a few moments when he
was shot, the entire load from a shot gun
entering his right breast, from the effect
Of which he died in about an hour and a
half. No clue can be found 60 the per-
petrstor Of this act. On the following
Saturday evening a man named Louis
Green. in the employ of Messrs. Halle
& Co, Of that place, while proceeding
from his supper 20 the store, was shot
down and instantly killed. Green was
found next morning, laying in front Of
the store, shot through the head, the bali
entering just above the right temple and
passing out on the other side. Thisafisir,
like the other, isslso wrappedin mystery.
We shall probably gain further partieu-
lars during the day.
MEETING oFTHEJALCOMMISsIoNERs
The following is the reports Of Commit
tees on Location, Plans and ~Specifca-
tions, Of the proposed County Jail, a.
rendered yesterday
MEMPHIS, Jan. -, ISG6.-At a meet
ing of Commissioners, held at the Office
of Judge Leonard, this January twenty
second. eighteen hundred and siXty-siX,
present-Judge Leonard in the chair
William 4. Bickford, T. l.. Giles, W. :.
Walton. James Hall and Il. b. Miller.
William A. Bickford submitted his re-
port in behalf Of the Committee IN Plans
and Specifications, 10 Wit The Commit
tee. with much care, have examined the
plans and Specifications prepared by Mr..
Cook. architect. and they are of the Opin-
lon that said plans are admirably adapted
for a Jail. Al are to be subjected to such
changes and notifications as the Com
mittee may direct, before making a final
contract for building the same. The re-
port was adopted.
THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE on
LOCATION.
To the Commissioners Of the New County jail:
Gentlemen: We were appointed by
your Board a Committee on location Of a
site fora new Jail, and having performed
the duty required of us, would beg leave
10 report as follows;
That we have examined several pieces
of ground suitable for jail purposes, and
find none so well adapted for the new
iail rs the lot owned by the county, on
the corner Of Chicbasaw and Auction
streets. The grounds are n hundred
and forty-eight and 4 half feet square,
with "a front OIL three streets, admirably
adapted for thorouSh drainage, and Is
eligIhly SitusteCd on an eminence
of ground perfectly secure from
overflow. The property Is well known
IL lut Den wright L+NSf anu M~ pa
chased by the county in January, eigh-
teen hundred and siXty-oue, al a cost OF
ten thousand dollars, and Is JrhOi,y paid
for sud is known on the map OF the
city as lots No. four hundred and twenty, |
hundred and tweny-One, b hun
dred and twenty-five and -four hundred
and tWeuty-three. We, therefore, be-
lieviug this i the best place that can be
for a Jail, recommend that q new
Jail be erected thereon.