Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-12-08
A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY.
An Intercepted EIOpement - The
Young Man KiIled-A Death-bed
Marriage.


An Intercepted EIOpement - The
Young Man KIIIed-A Death-bed
Marriage.
Some three years ago, young man re-
siding ia Marshall county. in this State,
was engaged to be married to young lady
wholived in the neighborhood. The match
was strongly opposed by the gtrPs family,
her two brothers being especially bitter in
their opposition. However, all this had no
effect upon the lovers As it was manifest
" impossible for the marriage to take place
at the young lady's home, aa eiopement
was agreed upon, but their plans were rus
trated upon two different occasions. The
third attempt was more successful, and one
dark, cloudy night, the lover rode
to place designated, found
his promised wife awaiting
him. took her on the horse behind him and
rode RAPIDLY away. The lovers naturally
concluded that their troubles were over,
and that in a shot time the ceremony
which would bind them to each other for
ever would be pronounced. They rode
along and had reached point within
quarter of q mile of the young mans home,
when two men sprang out from their place
of copcealment near the roadside, and
called to the young couple to halt, which
command was not Obeyed. The two men
thereupon fred az the young man on the
horse, who rode Oh a short distance ana
then fell heavily 20 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 lead and chest IN brutal
manner, he begging and. pleading with
them to spare him, as he felt he had already
received his death-wound. The girl was
ordered by her brothers TO get on her lovers
horse and return home with them, but she
refused to leave her lovers side.
After cruelty beating their sister, the
unnatural brothers rode off home, where
they were asked if they had 'kLlled that fei-
low" by their mother, TO which they re-
piled, that they had not, but that they had
..fxed him." so that he would die.
The young man who had been shot was
carried 10 relatives house, where he lin
gered in great pain for torty-eight hours
before death came TO relieve him OF bis sut-
ferings.
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 bis last the unfor-
tunate man called his sister and wife to his
bedside and solemnly charged them to re-
main together as long as they lived, TO
which request a ready assent was given.
He also exacted promise from his wife
that she would never return TO her own
family, or have anything to dc with them
In the future.
Meanwhile, the guilty brothers had made
their escape, but vigorous pursuit re-
suited in their being captured near jackson,
Mississippi. They were taken to Lewis
burg, in Marshall county, where they we're
lodged in jail, but after few months COO
fneruAns they were enabled by friends to
make their escape, but were again captured
by Sheriff Champ, ia Texas, the second ar
rest having been made about month ago,
a reward of & thousand dollars having been
offered for their apprehension.
hey are now lodged in their old quar-
tiers ia the Lewisburg jail on the charge OF
murder, and will be tried at the hrst ses-
sion 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 con-
viction, and as she was present during the
tragedy, ner testimony viii be OF vital i'm
porUanee.
The foregoing facts are furnished by
sister Of the young man who was killed.