Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-05

| time, and Capt. Ferry ISli, saving -
am killed follow them uphill them
both - then 1 fred, but the negro al
whom l aimed was so close to me that
he knocked my pistol up, and my bal
7 went over hIs shoulder he poked bis
pistol into nv face aud fred, the fash
burning me 8 little on the side Of my
neck l then picked up Capt. Ferry's
pistol, and they shot three or four shots
at me while / was trying to get hold OF
il, and then started down the alley to-
ward Union street, running some fifty or
sixty yards, and then [ fred at them
twice with Capt Perry's pistol, one Of the
balls taking effect In the right side OF
Redf0Pd's neck, as l | have since learned,
from his own testimony. As they turned
into Union street, Joined by q third from
the alley, Bsrbiere and Wright met
them snd they pursued them down
Union street, opening q pretty lively
fire on them, which they returned with
interest, wounding Wright in the cap of
the right knee. When they turned the
corner OF Main and Union private
watehman Callahan opened fire on them,
and fired three shots at them. Here, too,
Charlie KubnhOlZ and CTupper opened
on them, and followed them down Main
street to the alley between Gsyoso and
Union, and thence down the alley to-
ward Second where, reaching the back
yard Of Nick Malstesta's, Bedford pushed
open the gate and got in. Mrs. Msla-
tesla heard the shots and had gone to
the window and saw him q he
entered. She called her husband,
who armed himself and ordered
him TO surrender. He fell to the
ground, at this, saying, oh, I'm dead"
Mr.. Malatesta standing over him with q
pistol, until the police came and took
him Ia charge. On being taken up by
the police, be gave his name as Bedford.
At the stationhOuse he gave the names
OF four negroes who were his cor1pan-
ions, three Of whom stayed outside while
he sud another went ia. The police
went to tins houses Of Ehose whose anne
he gave, and arrested them; and they IRE
nov in jail.
CoNDITIoN OF CAPT. PERRY AND THE
OTHER WOUNDED.
TIE four negroes arrested yesterday
moning as being ~ the party who shot
Gait. Perry and OHlc4r Wright, of the
Second District police night before last,
wee ali fully Identified yesterday by
Bedford, the wounded negro, vac syore
to hem, each and separately, as having
BEN his accomplices. Their names are
sm Moody, Henderson Ford, Henry
J0es aud Wilis Mitchell. They were
yesterday removed fFoE Causey street
station house to Adams street, where
tlsy now are.
Cspt. PeTTy's condition yesterday
e-enIng 81 eight o'clock was considered
bnsleFs. The attendant physicians.
Ihs. Rimbro and White, have made the
FLOWING diagnosis Of bis wounds Phe
bll entered his right arm between the
tner and the radius, passed the entire
bngth Of these two bones, and passed
Ht the lower portion Of the elbow,
lancing 1t struck the center Of the sixth
right rib, penetrated the plura and
vent into the right lobe Of the liver
where 1t nov TeGains. His bleeding
lsd mostly been internally. The doc
.ors state that the ball could not have
the lung, as he had coughed up
DO blood.
Policeman Wright was yesterday
evening doing very we'll, and will soon
d out. The wounded burglar, Eender-
Iop, is pronounced out Of danger, and
Eli, we hope, live to be hung, as he and
associates richly deserve.
Although It present writing there is
Ieemingly no chance under heaeen that
Jspt. Perry q live through the night
indeed, q Of the attendant physicians
itated that he would net lsst till mid
light-we cannot refrain from express
ug still 8 lingering hope that he NAV
and be spared long to fill the
giaes Ehich he has held with so much
honor to himself and service to the pub
ic. Come what will, he is S brave and
officer, who, II he dies from this
wound, dies like 8 hero, doing his duty.
couDf Tor
tneir V ends but that The sole -.
pose OF all will be to select the man w;,h
"hom success can most oertainIv -
achieved. Thsak God, the bodv -
people here and elsewhere are oot,,-N
OF the eternal obtrusion ~ tse
Feihsh interests Of men, and eliouos
rings into political moyemanto -
controversies The "eut-and.drisd1
NODE o. doing up the work of Go
IS becoming obsolete, or At Iaoat
Q Prominently satisfactory and -succosssa,
we should be glad to SEQ Ca,
hancock elected President beeanss
never had anything to do w,.s
ings and cliques, and IL elected bo I'm
OF be the instrument OF apv az.
AoaI OF political cormorants -
flncipal purpose is to grab the spoils -
le momen Of victory, and gill the a,
ith their ~shriekings il all their ~
are not satisfied. The scrsr,hI.
once after an election, wbatever a. :
Of the election NAV bs1s 2
3D. Is simply disgusting, especially in
VINO pretend to be governed soleIr
oevotion to the public interests. n
I the work Of the National Copya,.
q Is not wisely and p~rudentIy done
e'"orkers control it, and the old nar,y
which the war and its results oDoh, M
nave effaced are attempted - n
"n again, the issue of the mIsmaD- ehl
d affair will a defeat. en-
ticket nominated by Southern VOTE
ing The scale will give Grant every 5S,
or wal vote, and inevitabIy 4
eieSted n the less those Who were "a
during the war on the sontb. a
slde, and are still odiOus to the peo. -
OF the North, have to do with the =
'ention' the better they will serve
country and the less iDjure the n