South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-04-14
A Bold Assassinatlon-A Bride.
groom Sso, D'.sa Wade Rees,r,ns "a. C.ngrar
Usatigr,s Of 6.s H.s Frieais.
Frpm ,he Kans., Ci,t Bnnstn-

From the Kansas Ci,t Bulletin.
Dark and bloody was the deei A feel =.
Ing of horror thrilled through he hearts Of
tho many witnesses who stood hy and saw
young aud happy bridegroom shot down.
and without any apparent cause. by the
hand Of the sueaking assassin. A merry
aud joyous company bad assembled last e
vening in the parlor Of the St Nicholas
Hotel to do honor 70 the union Of two low
ing hesrts-the marriage of Mr. j. G Fos-
ter, late Of Bowling Green, Ky to Miss
Rose Bird, of this city. Father Donnelly
had just performed the marriage ceremony.
The bride was in the parlor attended by F.
bevy of beauties oDd merry young maideus.
The proud bridegroom had but just passed
out to the saloon 10 receive the pledges and
congraiul1,ians of his friends. when there
entered Nd uoinvited guest, Mr.. Thomas
Smith. II Independence, who at once accos-
ted Foster. Very iew words passed be-
tween them. A bys,ander overheard the
following conversation, the meaning here
of ia snll shrouded IN mystery. Foster
was standing at the corner of the bar, when
smith said "You DO not mean it," al
do. "Then prepare yowself" At the
same time he produced navy revolver and
hired into Foster. Tuning around, without
= word of explanation, the assassin walked
out of the saloon, putting up his pistol as
he walked cooily across the street past the
courthouse. Turning botcen the market
house and the court house he mounted hi.
horse and fed out into the darkness of the
night, unmolestsd, unpurs,4ed.
The bridegroom staggered back ward as
he receivei the shot, Dnd fell upon a win
dow bench Medical attendance was soon
upon the scene, and the wounded man car
RED up stairs. His cries were continuous
HIS only exclamation being "Tom Smith.
Why did you mn rider me ?" ooh, why have
you shot me down upon this my wedding ?"
IL, who was Your best friend aud loved Won
On, Tom, shy have you murdered me p
nasty '&amination of the wound by Drs
Nhllvan, Taylor and other surgeons whose
names we were unable to- learn, showed that
the bu let had passed through Il e right hand
and Dad entered the abdomen near the
g'"n and had glanced ohliquely downwards.
lodging about three inches from where il
had entered. The opinion II The surgeons
was that the wound was dangerous. but not
necessarily fatal The scene in The pa,lor
war beyod description. The fair and elegant
~ a'tirsd bride, stricken down in her grief
aud horror, was surrounded by her brides
maids and relatives llcre and there were
TAR RIrls lying PROSTATE ana iDeensiblc FROM
fright. Snbs and whispers were the only
sounds TO be heard. All Was sadness an,
grief where JOY and elcs had roigned su
preme not twenty minutes before. Tom
Smith Is row under Indictment for fobhinU
Stone Thnriou's hank in ls67, on infoT-
NATION furnished by jim Crow Childs.-
Smith has been refugee from justice, in
Canada, for about two years, having hu, re-
equity returned 10 his home At Independ
ence. Ills capture as considered doubtful
We have been unAbls so WARN the csnsc
that led 10 hi, decd e blood The whole
nH'lr remaius eusLrouici il vail Of mys-
terry