Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-10-31
Tne e,,,nner1aud Tragedy.

l.. L. Clary, editor of the Cumberland
Times, by Mr. John NJ. Resley, Assistant
Collector of Tolls of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, at that port. The
Times announces the death of Mr.. Clary in
feeling editorial. In the account of the
shooting, it says: We cannot close this
article without giving vent to some of the
feelings which an outraged community
displays at this cowardly and infamous
assassination of brave and and fearless
gentleman. 1t may have been the work
of cool and deliberate conspiracy, or it
may have been simply the cowardly deed
of a degraded and blood-thirsty outlaw,
hunting his victim to trap, and shooting
him down in amoment Of Inconsistencies.
This is a matter to be investigated here
after. However it will fail in its intention.
The mantle of Lloyd L. Clary will fall up
on shoulders worthy to wear it, and the
Times will not be swerved one iot or little
from its course by the fear OF the pistol OF
the desperode or the knife of the assassin,
no matter what influences may hedge a
} round them.
The Neaos, says; We are no excuser OF
Mr.. Clary's conduct of his newspaper, out
(which the afa grew which cost him his
life, but we dossay that his course, how
ever provocativ6it may have been, did not
: begin to justify the fierce assault upon him
for which he seems to have been but poor
ly prepared. OF Mr.. Resley we prefer not
to speak at length. He has taken upon his
hands the blood of human being, and
3 will have to answer at the bar OF Justice
for the ofense. A violator of the law, he
will, in cooler moments. realize the awful
position which he has assumed.
The following details of the shooting,
E which occurred about o'clock P. NJ on
, Monday, are taken from the Neaos
Yesterday mofhing there appeared in
the Times the fQiowing editorial article,
| which7we publish, as without it no &C
/ cout of the shooting would be wholly intel
2 Eligible to our readers:
: ConsiderableSs inquiry obtains among
: the public as to the calculation of the
: Clerk of the Court in arriving at the a
n mount of costs due the talesmen summon
t ed on the Lear case from several districts
. in the county. The talesman from Iona
coming were paid So so each; those from
Q Frostburg 81 90,s 1.-THE Clerk taking the
s trouble to tell them in Court to go down
t to the office and get their certificates,
4 while those from Mount Savage and the
:. country districts were allowed to go with
!, out being paid at all, and without receiv
Il ing any intimation from anybody that any
i thing was due them. The talesmen al
II Homecoming and Frostburg were severally
: summoned after seven o'clock on Thursday
. Eevening. They came to Cumberland OF
e the morning train and left in the afternoon
thus losing but one day. Take the case o
Homecoming, the talesmen from which dis
e trict received eight dollars and a-hal1 eacn
The distance from that point to Cumper
k land, by rail- the longest route, IS twenty
]. six miles. The law allows mileage at thu
rate of twenty-five cents per mile one wa.
: upon afbdistanceeover i've miles. Inere1or
: the mileage upontwenty miles shoult
lel have been S. 25, which added to the pc
lel diem, 50 so, makes 81 90 the sum thes
II talesmen shouldkhaye been PAID. "A gam
J = fosyzsz TO gGaMDeI,
: iand, Dy rail-, Is seventeen miles nye on
: would leave Twelve, Whlcn .Wouio give - Ine
# rostDurg men 20 as mileage. Aoo Inl lie
: TO tnelr per diem % on, ana we nave 90 oo
as the sum due3 instead OF S4 o. Inc d
nouns received. AS before remarked the
! men nom MounG savage ana q. ene country
0 ld1strlcIsWere allowed TO go W1tnout oelne
c palo; III tne case OF Lonaconlng the money
e was hanaea over TO mr. fatrlck M ullen'
an earnest stateiiIte OF the presene lncum-
nents 1or dlstrlputlon-aIl OF Whlcn gives
J, rise TO considerable comment.
81 ABOUT TWO O'Clock Monoay a1ter nS
John M. Resi-, Esq, eldest son OF Oolo,
mel Horace Resley, Cicerk OF the CIRCUIT
Court for Allegany County, net 9onn =
t Broydrick, ESQ.,, one of the proprletors arc
: editors of the Times, on the corner of Bal
timore and George streets, when a short
conversation took place, during which Mr..
, Resley asked Mr.. Broydriek whether he
had written the article reproduced above,
t Mr.. Broydrick replying that he was not
/ the political editor of the Times, and had
4 not writteni+ After some further remarks
| Mr.. Resley went down the street, Mr..
r Broydrick going into the store of s. F.
t Mcbride & Co., across the street. Going
s at once to the entrace to the Times office,
} Mr.. Resley met Mr.. Daniel Bradley, col
s lector for the paper, of whom he inquired
I if Mr.. Clary were In the office. Mr.. Brad
' ley replied in the affirmative, and Mr..
!, Resley went UP 1.-the steps. Just as he
' reached the top of the first stairway it APP
t lpears that Mr. Clary emerged from re-
} cess at the other end of the landing, ten OF
c fifteen feet from Mr.. Resley, he having Just
a come down from the composing room OF
4 the office, in the third story. Here the