The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-26
A Tennessee Tragedy.

Some three years ago, a young man residing
in Marshall county, Tennessee, was engaged to
be married to young lady who lived in the
neighborhood. The match was strongly op-
posed by the girls family, her two brothers
being especially bitter in their opposition.
However all this had no effect upon the lovers.
AS it was manifestly impossible for the mar
riage to take place at the young lady's home,
an elopement was agreed upon, but their plans
were frustrated upon two different occasions.
The third attempt was more successful, and
place designated, found his promised wife
awaiting him, took her on the horse behind
him and rode rapidly away. The lovers natu.
rally concluded tlrat their troubles were over,
and that in a short time the ceremony which
would bind them to each other forever would
be pronounced. They rode along, and had
reached point within quarter of mile of
the young mans home, when two men sprang
out from their place of concealment near the
roadside, and called to the young couple to
halt, which command was not obeyed. The
two men thereupon fired at the young man on
the horse, who rode on short distance and
then fell heavily to the ground, dragging the
girl with him. The two men-who proved to
be the young lady's brothers-came up and beat
the wounded man about the head and chest in
brutal manner, he begging and pleading
with them to spare him, al, he felt he had al
ready received his death-wound. The girl was
ordered by her brothers to get on her lovers
horse and return home with them, but she re-
fused to leave her lovers side.
After cruelty beating their sister, the unnat-
ural brothers rode off home, where they were
asked if they had "killed that fellow" by their
mother, to which they replied that they had
"fxed him" so that he would die
The young man who had been shot was car
ried to a relatives house, where he fingered
in great pain forty-eight hours before death
came to relieve him of his sufferings.
The young girl having announced her desire
to marry her dying lover, a Justice of the Peace
was brought to the house the night of the
shooting, and the ceremony which united the
living to the dying was pronounced.
Just before breathing his last the unfortunate
man called his sister and wife to his bedside
and solemnly charged them to remain together
as long as they lived, to which request ready
assent was given. He also exacted promise
from his wife that she would never return to
her own family, or have anything to do with
them in the future.
Meanwhile, the guilty brothers had made
their being captured near Jackson, Mississippi
They were taken to Lewisburg, in Marshall
county, where they were lodged in Jail, but af
ter few months confinement they were en-
abled by friends to make their escape, but we're
again captured by Sheriff Champ, in Texas the
second arrest having been made about month
ago, reward of thousand dollars having been
| offered for their apprehension.
They are now lodged in their old quarters in
the Lewisburg Jail, on the charge Of murder,
and will be tried at the first session of the
County Court.
The wife of the murdered man, their own
sister, has expressed determination to do all
in her power to secure their conviction, and as
she was present during the tragedy, her tcsti-
mony will be of vital Importance.
The foregoing facts are furnished by sister
of the Young man who was killed.