The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-11
BOB SAWYER REDIVIVUS.
High .Jinlxs In Cfucinnati-The Lively Propen-
sites of II Medical Student-IIe IL Finally and
Very Properly Brought to Grief.


From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Dec. s.
DR.. William Pearcy, drowsymedical student
of the Bob Sawyer school, was arraigned in the
Police Court, yesterday morning, for the misde-
meanor of discharging firearms within the city
limits. The Doctor occupies appointments" on
Clark street, west of John, and his fayorite win
dow commands fine view of Mrs. Burgess
back yard. Being an excellent shot, the Doctor
has beguiled his leisure hours for the past week
with target practice. His shooting-iron has in
variably been an air-gun, capable Of carrying a
pistol bullet a considerable distance; but his
taste in the matter of marks has been subject to
frequent changes. One day he would select a
clothes-pin on Mrs. Burgess line: the next day
he would prefer an exposed coal-bucket or a
tin wash-hand basin on that lady's possessions
Sometimes q particular iron star in the rear
wall of Mrs. BIS dwelling would claim his at
tention, and at others he would draw bead on
the wooden and purely ornamental chimney of
the house. When all these things had been shot
to pieces and nothing else offered, the Doctor
opened upon Mrs. Burgess pet poodle and in a
few brief hours riddled his poor body to such an
extent that, with an ordinary opera-glass an
enthusiastic 'Sawyerlte could see the wretched
creatures inside works.
Let it not be supposed that these interesting
experiments were carried on without opposition,
for they were not. The unscientlc and unsym-
pathetic neighbors were in arms against the
Doctor from the first; and from Mrs. Burgess,
who could hardly be expected to view the
gradual demolition of her habitation and its out
door appurtenances with Indifference, came
doleful warnings, bitter threats of personal vio-
lence and formal notices OF her firm determine
tion to appeal to the civil authorities for pro-
lection. But all to no purpose. The hostility
of the neighbors was laughed at, Mrs. Burgess
warnings were treated with contempt, her
threats of violence were hurled into her teeth,
and her notices of appeal TO the authorities
drew a still more destructive fire from the
doughty Doctors air-gun. lie was going to do
lust about ms he pleased in that neighborhood
Te show that such was his intention, he OBJ
tanned reinforcements. A gentleman by the
name of Basn-also good shot-took up his
quarters at Pearcys boarding-house, and to-
gether they made Clark street howl.
Mrs. Burgess could not stand this concen-
trated fire. She sent for the police on Wednes-
day morning. and over the bloody form of her
beloved dog that lay dying in the back yard,
vowed that she would stop the bombardment
While the oath was being recorded, the enemy
appeared at his window in his shirt sleeves to
have a crack at something before breakfast
Mrs. Burgess spied him and started toward his
fortress The doctor thought she designed
single-handed. He was not prepared for a
hand-to-hand struggle, so he let fly at her with
his gun, as she alleges, to force her back. His
nervousness affected his aim, however and the
bullet flew wide of its mark. Before he could
reload the police appeared, and, mistrusting his
ability to successfully cope with the superior
numbers before him, he made an unconditional
surrender, thus exemplifying the truth of the
First Napoleons remark, that ii was difficult to
make troops fight on empty stomaehs.
The doctor appeared in the police court yes
terday morning, and a pretty clear case was
made out against him; but to afford him an op-
portunity 10 prove, as he claims, that Mr.. Basin
did the shooting on Wednesday morning, the
hearing was continued until Saturday morning.