The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-04
Tragic Affair In NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
lars or the, Destli or Harry Love,
the Texas Ranger.

lars OF the Death OF Harry Love.
the Texas Ranger.
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Ever since the marriage Of Harry Love,
the Texas Ranger, with the widow Bennett,
eight or ten years ago or more, there have
been from to time tur1noils in the family,
quarrels, separations, lawsuits, retinions,
and separation again. In fact, there has
been no harmony In the family, and their
domestic affairs have too often been the
subject Of ventilation by courts and Cos
sips. r It seems that of late there
was q sort of reconciliation whereby they
were for time enabled to live together
under the same roof, but there was no SYM
pathy, no unity of feeling, no disposition
on the part of the woman at least to forget
the past, no yearning for q happier com
mingling Of thought and affection. Harry
Love felt that he was only tolerated there,
and he imagined that the great obstacle to
the reestablishment of the true martial
relations in the family was in the
person of Christian Elversen, Ger
man lahorer employed by the, wife to
work upon the place. He told Elversen to
leave; he ordered him off the premises !;
he threatened his life if he did not 90. FL
versen refused to obey or to regard these
threats. He said he was employed by the
wife, who paid him, and he had nothing to
o.with Harry Love. While she desired
his services on the place he would remain.
He tried to get Harry put under bonds to
keep, the peace, but, We are told, failed in
this, for the magistrate held that the hus-
band, although living on the wife's proper
ty, had the right to prevent persons obnox-
ious to him from coming there, However
this may be, or what was the ground for not
putting Harry under bonds, the parties
continued to occupy the same relations
and positions, and yesterday Elversen
and Mrs. Love came into ST., Joseph
together on business Of come sort,
and there Harry Love, brooding
over his troubles, saw them togeth-
'er. He left the city, making threats.
He declared that he would 60 home and
guard his premises, and if Emerson entered
there he should do it over his dead body.
Harry Love, on arriving at home, lay down
by rail fence leading from the road to his
house. Armed with a double barreled
shotgun and six-shooting revolving pis-
toll, provided with 8 bag of crackers and q
.coffee-pot and coffee, he prepared for o pro-
tracted defence Of the main entrance. A
daughter of Mrs. Love by her first husband
observing this state Of things, and under
standing its meaning, kept watch for the
return of her mother and Elverson, and
when they came in sight, ran out into the
road and gave them notice of the DISPOSE
ton made for the defence. They had come
within fifty yards of the gate where Harry
Love lay when the girl made this commu-
nication. Elversen Immediately sprang
from the wagon, and looking toward the gate,
saw Harry Love behind the fence with the
barrel of the shotgun protruding through it
and pointing at him. He Immediately
drew his revolver, and both parties fired
simultaneously. Elverson was shot in the
face and arm with some email bird shot, in
fictng no serious injury. His pistol shot
did not hit Love. Although Love was pro-
tected by the fence, Elverson Immediately
advanced upon him, receiving another dis
charge from Loves shotgun, and five out
of the six charges of his revolver, none of
which struck him except one pistol ball,
received in the right arm, which disabled
that member. Advancing, and firing as he
advanced, cool and undismayed by Loves
rapid firing, Elverson reached the fence,
and bending over, fired again, the ball
striking Love in the right arm above the
elbow, breaking the bone. Harry Love
broke out into wild howl, calling for help,
and ran as fast as he could towards the
house. The German sprang over the fence
and gave pursuit; and on the way picked W
Loves pistol, which he had dropped on the
way, and fired one undischarged barrel al
the retreating Love. Both parties, each
having disabled arm, came together at the
house, when Elverson struck Love heavy
blow on the back Of the head with the
empty pistol, which felled him to the ground
and left deep cut. They grappled anc
tugged on the ground, but were soon sepa.
rated by parties who came up. So ended
this horrible, brutal, and hellish scene
Elverson's arm was paralyzed by the bal
which entered it, but the bone was no
broken. The bird-shot in the face hi
seemed to think little of. Love received
two serious wounds-a broken arm and ;
bad cut in the back of the head with pts
tol. The physicians, on consultation, be
lieved it necessary to take off the broker
arm. We understand that they took it off a
the socket of the shoulder, taking it out ant
off altogether, and that they administered
in the operation large amount of chloro
form to the sufferer. Love died as tn
operation was completed, and of cours
there is much talk and varying opinion
about the case and the treatment.