Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-25

fred the first shot. Fuget is said to
have heen approaching Main street from
the alley, and was met by White, who
was passing along the sidewalk. When
The hiring began Puget placed himself
behind m awning post AT the corner Of
the street and alley, while White stood
on the sidewalk
The firing was very rapid; so rapid,
indeed that many who heard It thought
Thai morn than two men were engaged
In tho shooting. The majority of those
who wers IN the neighborhood when the
shooting began ran away us fast as their
legs would carry them; but two or three
men. who sought shelter in the iron
Soorways Of Burkhaltors store, stood
their ground aud Witnessed the whole
battle. White fell first, aud, striking on
the edge of the sidewalk, rolled into a
gutter about eighteen inches in depth.
Foeet fell about the same time, seem
ingly from the effects OF Whites last
sboi rolling into the same gutter in
which White was lying aud at no great
distance from him.
Between the two men lay bundle of
gunny sacks, owing TO which they we're
unable to see each other. Puget began
10 crawl toward White, who lay In the
cutter unable to rise. He dragged him.
self along the gutter until he reached
the gunnv sacks. He climbed up on
these until he could see his mortal en-
envy, and then Rred at him his two re-
naming shots. White aroused himself,
and by great effort raised his pistol and
ired his last shot, which rolled Fugel
from his position on the sacks, aud ended
the desperate and bloody fight.
When the firing ceased and only
eroans we're TO be heard, the citizens
rapidly collected, and soon great
crowd was on the bloody battlefield.
The bleeding and grooming men were
carried to where they could be cared
for. Fuget, however. needed but little
care as he was dying when takea up,
and lived less than ten minutes. The
shot which proved fatal struck him in
the left groin, severing a large artery.
He bled frightfully. Whites wounds
were three in number and Of such a
nature that they must necessarily prove
fatal. One shot passed through his
body, from side to side, just above the
hips; another entered his right breast,
and ranging back, lodged against his
spine; the third struck him in the lower
part Of the abdomen, passing through
the bladder =.
After the shooting, and while his
wounds were being examined, White
said he was bred at by another man be-
sides Fuget. The man, he said, was a
large man, with heavy black whiskers
who stood in the alley leading up into
China town, and fred three shots at him,
after which he ran away up the alley.
Afterward, on being more closely ques-
toned about this man, White refused to
say anything more in regard to him, or
to give his name, even 1t he knew 1t.
Many persons who we're in the neighbor-
hood at the time of the shooting are
quite certain that more than. two men
we're engaged init.
The say that it seems almost impos-
sible that two men, armed with common
six-shooters, could have done such rapid
firing, and when the men were taken up
aud the pistols examined there was a
general expression of surprise on seeing
they were not self-cockers. Several bull
lets struck the iron shutters of the store,
aud the men who screened themselves
in the doorways seem to have occupied
a tolerably hot position, By some it is
that the men were hunting
each other at the time, as but minute
before the shooting hogan White came to
the door of billiard-ssloon near by and
peeped in, as though looking for some
one. Both men were formerly residents
of San Francisco.