The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-03

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AGAIN. rsosnfed my horse and rode S,6!
mt doubling bic word. "a isw yafds ibo ss'
stias point the road turned, and. On s1ss
looking around ffum her, L saW that IN
was IoadIng very, exgitcdtv, and there Whs
q peculiar .S0nsetl hing IN The manner If,
which he turned up his ci,after "a nSui II,
the powder that caIised my Hrse sI,snic In;
o. the truth. It has been onward OF Y0rfy.
I'VE years, bat there Is no memory more dis.
ancL IN my mind than the sErange;,u riac.
counGable look OF that masl ne he appeared
: tnas moment. then. remembered That
settle with the landlord at thu Snrinno tsas
morning and scarcely had Iti,oircIIt of fhis
Wnen my horse staggered and Rem I'm the
road. On examining him I found hfs Whoie
breast covered with blood that was oozIno
OUT OF 9 small bulles-hole In the shoulfier,
MY suspicious were then proven, and. fpet.
t'ng MIN up again, hurried on To the Nam.
moth Cave rs fast az his condition woujd
a ~ There had been a biz field muster
snere tnat day and on hearing nv story
tne colonel i'm command :(Mr. i. Eiijaf,
sCiaypooi) started with six men back to the
spot. Potter had some friends, present,
ahI ,paILicuiariy Doctor Stone, who&Were
stactneu 10 Tldienie my story as to the In.
- = oeSSAS CfSu IL i Was COrF3CG
about his being the man. On arrtyina Mt
the branch no trace of Potter cnnlf he
'foma, snor could we for some time find afly
marks or circumstances tending in any way
20 cenfirm my report. Finally. however,
Colonel Claypool found, on little hill and
behind large tree, the imprint ofta rifle
STOCK and also of a mans knee on the
ground: The Colonel then placed me where
l $1,000 when heard the shot, and with his
own gun he took aim at me from the posi-
ton behind the tree, and he then told the
Doctor that thick dogwood bush was
directly In the line, and that ball could
or twiS. On examination, q leaf was found
with the smooth-cut hole of a rifle ball in
it; and the line of sight showed that it
must have passed through the GEN.
ire of my back and, as it did not, the
matter was a mystery to them, all
until / told how I was in the act OF
STOPPING at the time / heard the shot. And
it was then plainly seen that my horse, being
beyond me, had received the ball that passed
over me. And / could account then for the
suffllsed look on Potter's face when asked
him what he was shooting at. He had ex-
pected, of course, to run out and find me
dead, and could not account for his disap.
pointment. Potter was afterward arrested
NY LIlt UUo SUulCuUN llC NSto uCNCl
brought to trial, but compelled to leave the
country, which nj that time was the greatest
punishment for all offences not amounting
to murder. About three years after this |
was going over the same road, and on the
same business; and having obtained a
very early start from the Springs one
morning L met on the top of one of the
high hills near this same point, about
daylight in the morning, this very same man,
Potter, with his rife on his shoulder. II
was then " that I thought of the morrow
for I saw at the very first glance that he
knew me but, stranger still than this meet.
ing was, he never noticed me or deigned to
speak of the incident OF our first meeting
there. 1t was easy enough to face him, but
it was never more difficult to turn my back
on a friend than to put this man behind me
But l passed on unmolested. lie was re-
puted a fine marksman at the Springs, and
perhaps he remembered that within a few
PAGES, and with IN unerring rifle, he had
tried me once before and failed, and never
had known the little incident that saved my
life ut the time. / have never heard any.
thing Of Potter since then. -. !
The truth of this adventure is youched
for by two of the most respectable citizens
of Bowling Green, Robert Davis and Elijah
Claypool; and the story has never appear
ed in print before. 49,. ZIazAG.