Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-16

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"a and TIVE Parsons Weanaaas
Correspondence Mon1zsmarT Advertise
have time barely To mention
yOu the leading facts, as obtained
from others, and partly q witness
ed by myself pending sbe Eeneaas
tire between Randolph and cadet
VIM. Smith, which occurred Friday
morning last, about II o'clock.
A half hour before the aiIfnys
Vernon Vaughan and Smith were
seen 10 leave the formers resldeaea
at the University together, ~ E
small Jersey wagon, and 70 pro-
eeed toward town, driven BY a ne
gro man. Smith Is q CADET appar-
entity twenty-five years Of Age, and
exceedingly stout, unc0uth, aud
+ ~Tufiantly In appearance. HIS relAr
tionship toward Vaughan has been
Of a very intimate character
/. Vaughan having once interviewed 70
prevent his expulsion from the Unis
versity, on the charge Of then from
the cOmmissary department. He IL
, a son of "Regent" Smith, Of the
Board Of Education, is repuied 70
: Oe a nephew Of the Governor, and
: served for two years or moro as q
!. sOldieF In the Yankee army.
The two cOnspirators stopped
their vehicle on Main street, near
Q the old stand of Henry A, Snow y
= Co, and dismounted. Concealed
In the bottom Of the wagon, as was
afterwards discovered, were two
10 very large duelling pistols and .
I, double. barreled shotgun, supposed
TO be loaded with buck-shOt,. and
n al a hat cock. Vaughan moved
70 up and down the sidewalk with an
~ air of trepidatiOn, never leaving his
' shotgun more than thirty or forty
&c steps. When his eye discovered
er Randolph quietly standing at Fos:
Al ter's corner, some two hundred
wards distant, talking to two Of his
q friends, his air assumed o phase Of
i. tragic defiance, and he continued
4 TO pace the pavement, with each
~ hand upon q loaded weapon In
re either pocket.
il The movements of Smith, his
.. accomplish, escaped close scrutiny,
u" as he was not known either TO
Ia. Randolph or his friends. The In
In. ceptiOn Of the ARRAY was manifest
ed by Smith approaching RAM
dolph, at Fosters corner, and with
H. his right hand In his coat pocket on
lin q cooked repeater, suddenly and
rudely josrling against him, with
evident purpose to induce the lat
Iu. ter to strike him, Randolph
mo thereupon struck at him with
his right hand. Smith imme-
OF diately drew his cooked pis-
70 toll and fired. How he man-
IN aged to miss his aim no one can
tell. Then ensued the most desA
.ng perato pistol rcncounter, probably,
i've In The history Of this city, so re-
~ plete with tragic events Of similar
character IN It's earlier days. Each
len stood within two yards OF the 9TH
nly err, almost hand TO hand, firing re-
pealedly at each others heads, the
powder from the pistols binding
de each others eyes, aud burning each
in. others faces. Rudolph continued
TO advance on his more able-hOdied
lrl' assailnnt, gaining ground each fire
,fy- and diving him from the pavemen'
to the centre of the public street.
Smith fred with equal Fapidity
nd, until both parties exhausted theiI
eff repeaters, but strange TO say II
.ho only person wounded was 0 specta
tor, named William II. Byrd,
Ihat saddler, who vas instantly killet
ing by a ball from smiths pistol, WhicI
- penetrated the center of his fore
:" head. Randolph's pistol 10 said Il
are have missed fire one time In tn
md heat of emergency. The last i'm
he aimed at Smith, the latter plainl,
on showed "the white ieathef,D hi
the courage seemed suddenly TO deser
o. him, aud he fed. Randolph fierce
ly pursued him, FIVE or elk stepI
'dly put the muzzle Of bis pistol Il
a.. contact with his back AM
fred. Every eyewitness though
that this would prove the fatal shot
the and terminate the. 90 far, wonder
nv fully blOodless ARRAY. But a suddeI
change In the attitude OF Smith
the body, accompanied with an appa
and rent dodge, caused the ball to glanc
,ow and iufict but a slight wound
Randolph just here, either froI
rms self.provocation, or from an i'm
the prOvldelt contempt FOR bis retreat
.oo ing foe, threw his empty pistol Z
him. Smith quickl, discovered hi
heir advantage, drew another repeater
lese and renewed his assault shootin
two or three Understanding thl
time, as " supposed, IN inliciln
the only wound Randolphreeelvet
now which wa. In the left leg, rangin
inns. upward toward the thigh. As }
-. approached, flushed with the hop
III OF meeting a dlsarmed antaeonls
.une Randolph drew his knife, aH| mad
.ciol a desperate strike az HI whe
Smiths courage, unabF o with
ions tand the touch Of . ID steel,
ith) again failed him, and be fed wit
= osl precipitation brfoF ne had tim
perhaps To see Ab .ssailant fall
, al the ground frOa lie effect Of b
that painful wouH smith escape
',La with q slight /i.tol wound, aud
'"e knife cut on his LETT hand, and on
The In his back. His hat bore the mari
the Of two pistol balls in close proxiu
ity TO the skull.
~ He was pursued by SherI
Tier Pegues toward the Universit
lade whittier he took refuge, and wi
ran, captured in the second story
INV professor" Vaughn's house. RAJ
adj dOlph's life was saved by a thlc