The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-05-06

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sitting ih the ball % Oh, hotel
MADDOX h5r-e rDs moved 80 u
,hc direction 81 ths street running
ont east from Blicsu.lc. Omurc
and : I'll continued firing as.i sn-
other ball struck ihC hotel and ra..l
under the bar room. When nearly
in front OF the store Il i. Z. Co1&
Sons. Murdoch drew DO. PISTOL fur
the first time, aud about the same
time he wa. struck On the ioui b,
one oftheir balls which pas>el across
the top Of his foot and wounded hi,
hOr.s Ia tie night fore leg. QHecf
the balls fired by ulanHe about this
time struck and passed into the store
Of J. X. Cox & Sons. coming very
near hitting Mr.. Cox. Mardock
passed out ia front ot TIE .,crc If
Butts, Shufonl 4 Co, reaching he
street running east, aud halted in
front Of Wall aud Browns store
At this point Msrloek turned li,
horse broad side 10 them and faced
them himself, his hand hangin. down
by his side with hi. pistol in it. and
did not raise 1t a. al. cue Of the
balls fired by Ozanne al this ;,ras
passed through the window Of Wall
& Browns lrygoods house and came
very near hitting A. II. Callasay,
agentleman employed by this frn.
A oall fired by Small Mt this time
struck Murdock's horse IN the bead
,inillcting a mortal Wound. Another
shot from one OF the party straak
the window sill of the grocery house
OF Wall & Brown. Murdock now
rode of up the street, Ozaunc and
Small coming onup. When Ozanne
and Small turned the corner and
turned up the street east, Ozanue
remarked I've will have him any
way Murdoch had by this time
passed up the street some seventy
five yards from the corner of Butts.
Shuiord & Cos store. halted his
horse and turned round. At this
point Ozanne and Small commenced
a retrograde movements at such speed
that it would have been termed, du-
ring the late war, "doublo quick"
an a retreat. Ozanno did not make
any halt until he got to Greenwalls
store, aud Small made no halt until
he reached the store houses on the
west side Of the railroad. While
they were making this retreat, which
was made ae fast as their legs could
carry them, Murdoch, for the first
time during the attack, fired twice.
Ozanc asserts that he here ordered
or summoned a posse in our town 10
assist him in the arrest. This asser-
ton IL false. When he commenced
his retreat he did say gentlemen, |
command YOU but never stopped
to state what was TO be done, and had
we obcycd the command as we were
accustomed to do during the late
war, it was to follow our leaders,
and had we obeyed tins in the same
way, we would have stood q good
chance to have broken or necks run.
ming oyer and down the embank.
ment of the railroad. After Muir. ,
dock had fired two shots, he turned ,
his horse and rode up the street at a :
slow gate,-we cannot assert that it
was a walk, for his horse was wound. y
ID and staggered from one side of :
he road to another. :,
Ozanne had sent Jarvis and a ne.
,ro named Ben Cox around to the
academy, near which they were post Ii
d, and when Murdoch approached r