Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-08

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A Respectable citizen Knocked from
his Wagon and Beaten Nearly 90
DeRih-MOmey the Supposed object
The Victim AZ the Point Of Death.
1t becomes our painful duty this morn
ing to chronicle another deed of blood
caused by the cowardly night attack upon
the person Of an esteemed citizen Of the
county. Mr.. w. L. Lucas, an old resident
of Davidson county, lives out about four
miles from the city on the Murfreesboro
road. He is sixty-four years of age. He
is gentleman of irreproachable character
and highly esteemed in his neighborhood.
He has been in the habit of coming to the
city daily with his market wagon, reaching
town very early in the morning and put
ting his horse in Fuller's livery stable, on
College street. On Monday evening he
remarked TO an acquaintance that he had
some money TO collect before the next day,
as he was going to town early and would
need it. He reached town safely. and
was driving up Market street, when lust
after crossing Broad street he was
bounced upon by a rufiau who was
armed With bludgeon. He was struck
over the head and knocked from the wagon,
when blow after blow followed, each one
intilctlng a severe wound. There is a very
bad wound on the top of the head, one on
the right side Of the head near the burr Of
the ear, and frightful cash across the right
cheek just above the jaw bone. He was left
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horse going to Fuller's stable, where it was
usually Kept. He was discovered in the
middle of the street yesterday morning
near four o'clock, by Mr.. Fisher, a market
man, who was also coming to the city.
Almost insensible and inanimate, and
covered with blood, he was carried to the
St. Charles Hotel, and medical aid was at
once procured. DIR. Menees was sent for,
and the wounds were dressed. We visited
the wounded man at O'Clock yesterday
evening. He can articulate with great
difficulty, and is dangerously, if not fatally,
wounded, though he may possibly recover
He has no idea OF the perpetrator, the first
blow the bludgeon having knocked him
senseless. The would-be assassin was evil |
IDENTIFY actuated BY the robber-fend's mo-
tive-meney. Mr.. L., it is almost certain,
had sum of money in his possession at
the time the attack was made, and none |
was found about him after he was discov-
cred in the street. Cannot some means be |
devised to bring TO justice the thieves, |
providers and villains that infest the thor |
oughfares of our city? We suggest re-
newed vigilance as essential to the protec- |
ton of life and property. So is .HnT
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CALIFORNIAN Society. OF NASHVILLE.
The annual meeting of the Caledonian
Society was held on Monday evening, the |
9th inst The following were elected of |
fcers for the current year: DR.. George S. |
Blackfe, President Matthew Henderson,
Vice President George Hutchinson, Sec.
rotary; ]. NJ. Sinclair, Treasurer David !
Grewar, John Douglas and Peter Nc |
Micken, Council. Votes of thanks were |
unanimously accorded TO Mr.. Matthew |
Henderson for his generosity in providing |
a place of meeting for the Society; to Mr.. |
John Wallace of the UNION AND Dis |
PATCH, for repeated favors and acts of pro- |
fessional courtesy rendered to the Society |
to the Committee of Arrangements for their |
efficiency in managing the Annual Festi- |
val of st. Andrew, and to the President for |
his hearty co operation and zeal. We are |
glad TO see this eminently benevolent So |
ciety prospecting, and look forward to Its |
energy and success as a valuable |
aid in relieving the distress of thespresent |
and many future winter.
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An HONEST MAN YINDICATED-The
case of Mathew McGough was tried yesc
terday before Justices Mathews, Cassetty
and Pohl. He was accused of having re
ceived stolen money, knowing it to be
stolen, with the design of fraudently de-
priving the owner of it, It was disclosed |
in the evidence that Ann Morgan had been /
working for McGongh and that he had /
missed four or five hundred dollars, and |
her of taking it, but said nothing
to her about it until few days ago, when |
she brought into his bakery, on Church |
street. shawl and said her mother gave it
TO her. 1t was found that she had bought |
the shawl at Mr.. Marks with Mr.. Nc |
Coughs money. She admitted to Mr.. |
MeGough that she had taken his money,
and, upon his promise to let her of, she
brought him 1920, saying that she got it
from her mother. Mr.. McGough thinks
ingit his money, reported to AIMS father
what had occurred The father examined |
his trunk and found missing 1915. He
and Ann, his daughter, both testified that
she had stolen the money from her father,
and she further swore that she had stolen
it from Mr.. McGough. It was necessary. in
order to convict the defendant, to show that
the money was stolen, and 80 anxious
was the prosecution, that the girl swore to
her own infamy, put up to it by her father.
Just think of it the father and daughter
both swearing that she had stolen money,
in ordert to convict the defendaat of hav-
ing received stolen goods. The defendant
proved by score of the best men in the
his irreproachable character
for honesty and integrity, and the court,
without argument, honorably discharged
him, taxing the prosecuting father with
The cost. Messrs. Brien and Temple for
the State, and Frank E. Williams and Maj.
for the defendant