The Portland daily press., 1868-02-17
Murder ofu ssainc Wan !. c..r,.

The following account of the sbootlng oI
MIR. G. G. Richardson, a member Of the Geor.
gla Constitutional Convention, and formerly
citizen OF Oxford county in this State ia
from the Atlanta correspondence of the Gin
cinnati Gazette. Mr.. Richardson's body has
been brought for burial TO Dixfield, where his
family reside. The Atlanta letter Is dated
Feb. 4th, and says: '
meeting was held last week to nominate
delegates for the county to the proposed Re
publican State Convention on the 10Th of
February, the call tor which has since been
suspended. The meeting was managed by
the friends OF ii. T. FaIrow, so as to instruct
the delegates chosen to vote for that GENTLE
man for Governor. Mr.. c. G. Richardson.
member to the Convention from Milledge-
vile, was present looking on. Mr.. r. is, he
lieve, in favor of r. B. Bullock tor Governor
Next day an article appeared in the Opinion.
of this city, severely denouncing Richardson
and charging him with voting in the meeting
of the night before.
Richardson then went to Mr.. Schruggs, edit
or OF the opinion, to demand the name OF
the writer, and was told it was Z. McBorron
Iimony, warm supporter of Mr.. Farrow.
yesterday afternoon, in accordance with a
note sent by Timony from Marietta the
and agreed to meet and settle the matter at
night.
Ilmony, in note sent from Marietta, de-
clarlng what he had said in the columns of
the Opinion was true, in the evening Richard
son sent note, by friend, to the American
Hotel, where Timony was, but the latter re-
fused to receive it. Richardson then walked
into the supper room OF the hotel to the table
where TmOny and Farrow sat, and handed
the note over to Timony. The latter picked
It up and threw it on the floor. Richardson
| then declared Timony had lied about him.
and denounced him as falsfier Timony
Immediately drew Derringer pistol f,om
his pocket and ordered Richardson to take
back what be had said. Richardson, at the
other side of the table, caught up a chair and
held 1t before him to ward off the expected
shot. Timony Immediately fired, the bullet
passing through the bottom Of the chair and
into the right breast OF Richardson, going en-
tlrely through the body. Timony tEen drew
from some quarter navy revolver and point
ed 1t at Richardson, as il to fire again, while
the latter steadily retired from the room.
Mr.. X. vas assisted to room in the hotel,
and lay last night in most critical condition.
To-day be has been more comfortable and his
recovery is not wholly despaired of. He en-
tered the United States army from the State
OF Maine. served through the war with credit,
settled at Augusta, and practiced law, and
was afterwards elected, without opposition, to
the Constitutional Convention. lie was on
duty as Bureau officer for time, and is
| greatly beloved by the freedmen, whose cause
he always warmly espoused. He Is an ami
cable, good-natured and excellent gentleman.
never seeking to give offense to anyone, bnt
brave and determined in what he believes to
| be right. His earnest Unionism has made
him the object of the special hatred of rebel
circles, and they have assailed him with al
most unexampled maliceand bitterness.
The rebels, however, are not responsible
for the present affair, as Mr.. Timony Is also
Republican.