Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-21
THE BLOODY KNIFE.


Officer Reed Stabbed I'm t. . Head. OF.
heer PluEimer shot. and Charlie
Allen. (COlorcti). stabbed I'm this
Neck. Sd ts-,za 7-s7 az
Yesterday. a party Consisting Of eight
men Came TO the city from point in VIII
Hanson county, shout eighteen miles sontb
Of Nashville. After dark they started ont
for The purpose ofbaying ga hish cid tire /"
and In order to make tho affair a Grand
success hegah drinking freely early
In Inc evening. About ten O'Clock
they found themselves in the Green Tree
Saloon, a notorious baguio on North Col
lege, near the Eouisyiise DEPOT, where they
conducted themselves in such a violent
manner that one Of the women of the
house went to the door and called for the
police, which call was responded to by fiji
GERS DICK Reed aud Samuel Plunr.eE. The
entire party we're tszen Under arrest by the
tive officers and were being marched to-
wards the station, when, just as they
reached Llnck's hotel, ons of the
men suddenly dashed into the
alley on the Nor b side of
the bote', entering the building by a side
door, where he was followed end recaptur-
ed The party th5n moved on again, but
had only proceeded few steps, when five
pistol shots were fired in quick succession,
one shot taking effect in the left shoulder OF
RUNNER. Reed was ecL in the forehead at
the same time, and theu the men broke and
ran rapidly up College ST. eet, the two off,
GERS being so badly disabled that they could
not follow them up.
A crowd soon collected. Plummer was
carried into Linck's Hotel, and Reed was
put In hack and taken TO the police sta
ton. 1t was then found that as tney ran
up the street one of the men made seyera.
cuts with knife at Charlie Allen, acolored
man who works at the race track for Geo,
Fuller. and who happened to be on the
street. 1t was reported that Allen, who re-
ceiVed two fearful looking cuts on the left
side OF his neck and was also cut in the
band, was trying to stop the men, hut he
says that was not the case, bu, was quietly
walking along the street when the men
passed him.
Meanwhile other policemen were sent In
pursuit of the men who had broken away
from Reed and Plummer. and in half an
hour brought in three individuals who gave
the names Of VIM. r. Ridley, aged 80;
Meredith Erw n, aged Il, and William
Hamilton Lee Washington Green, aged %
These men We're very much excited, their
clothes more or less torn, and Ridley, who
was bareheaded was covered with hlood.
which ran down from wound on one
side OF his lead. lie was given a
chair near bench upon which Reed was
stretched, with doctor bending over him
sewing up the wound in bis forehead.
Ridley began talking in an excited manner,
saying: "They took ry &eepins from me,
aad what cctild | do? / pretend to be
gentleman and brave man." This he re-
peated over and over again, until Reed
jumped up and started for him, spying that
he (Ridley) was the man who did the
shooting, and that be would have all the
shooting he wanted before he got
through with { is Job, and was on the
point of sei&ing him, when he was sur
rounded and compelled to lie down on the
bench again. Ridley and Erwin were finally
taken off TO the wOrkhouse and locked I'D,
Whlle Iced was put in a hack and taken
home. Green was left at the Police sta
ton, the general belief beiDg that bis earn
est statement to the effect that be was mere
~ walking about in that vicinity at the time
the fracas occurred, was true.
A doctor was called in TO see Plummer at
Llnck's, and alter making Careful exami-
nation OF the wound, found that the ball
had entered the left shoulder, raising
around and lodging somewhere in the back,
but0he was unable TO find the exact loca-
ton. Hummer was also taken home, the
doctor accompanying him. He is painfully
injured, and H'illreqaire csrefnl tending.
After The colOred man, Allen, was cut, he
ran up College 10 Union and down TO the
Office of DIR. F. 81. Hughes, on the corner
Of Uniop and Cherry. Allen was taken to
q house in the alley between Cherry and
College, just below the church On Coli ge.
street, where his wounds were sewed M by
DR.. Hughes, Who said that he had g.
capped death by a miracle, the cash in h is
neck being about three inches long and gu tie
deep.
The woucdsd policemen are two of the
most valuable men on The force. Reed has
been connected with it about four years,
md Plummer about two, but was also a |
policeman here during the war. He has |
been in severa desperate encounters with !
lT-breakers, ard It Is said has killed five |
men, THREE OF those in one night. At one |
line re entered a eolored church to arrest |
party, when be was set upon aud severely |
beaten and thrown from the steps of the |
building. A party then gathereI around |
lim 10 finish him, when he shot one of /
bern. Reed is one Of the Quickest men
N the Grce, and is general favorite with
lis associates.
LATER--Since the foregoing was writ
en-, our reporter learns that he was misin-
ormed with regard to one particular. at
he time of thashOoting, Une of the arrested
ATTY called out orally boys, rally ~
Vhereupon three or four started to run,
Vhi.e one of the remainder of the party cut
iced, who fell seuseless, and another shot
hummer, but the latter did not fall, but
Olicwed the men the distance of a block,
ring three shots. 1t was doubtless one of
hese shots which inflicted the wound on
Iidley' s head.
The police were out in fore last night
1cktng for the remainder of the party, and
heir arrest is certain.
LATEsT-As we go 10 press we learn that
Il the rarty, six in number, have been