Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-08
A FlOridy Family Unpleasantness.

The picturesque brutality of the Num-
dy-Locklier fiend, in the Suwance county
-" Way down upon the Suwanee river,
in fact-deserves notice. Both men were
cattle raiseis; Mundy was widower with
daughter, Locklier had wife, and af-
ter while they traded, the former giving
his daughter for the othsr's wife and 20
head of cattle to boot. The snapped wife
got tired of the bargain first and went
back to her old home of course the next
thing was an attempt of Mundy to get his
daughter lack; then the daughter object
ed, and her spouse demanded the cattle
back before he'd hear to it. Mundy swore
he'd keep the cattle and get his daughter,
or be shoot his undutiful son-in-law told
him to shoot; so they parted bad friends.
Mundy," said an old hunter, telling the
story to a New York Sun correspondent,
declared war. He threw up a sort Of
parallel around Locklitr's house and bonn
barded it with double -barreled shot gun.
All day long he laid around the house
waiting for shot. Locklcr was afraid
to 70 out os even show his face at VIM
dow. For hours he would sit on chair
with his old rife across his knee and watch
the door. Whenever the latch moved he
would blaze away without waiting to find
out who was coming in. Two or three
times he came near shooting his wife when
she was out after a pail Of. water. You
see he knew Mundy meant business, aud
he wasn't going to let him got twist Oh
him. Mundy skirmished around the house
till dark. Then he travelled home and
got good nights sleep but by daylight
Lockller again found him intrenched out
side the door. This arrangement lasted
several days, and Locklier began to get
tired. One night, he took couple of
stout cart wheels standing near his cabin,
boarded them in on three sides with two
inch plank, and when Mundy put in an ap-
pearance, the next morning, confronted
him with this movable battery. The ta-
bles we're turned. The old man had to
fall back. Locklicr followed him up the
road with his battery, shelliug him ct ev-
cry jump Muudy was driven into his
headquarters. A dozen shots were ex-
changed before sundown, and at dark
Lockler drew off to his house under COW
or of the battery. Before the roosters
stopped growing he was again moving up
the road toward Mundy's house, shelling
his way every few rods, and driving the
old man with his shotgun to cover. Well,
the war YVES kept up this way about a
week, but at last it had to come to an
end. One bright moonlight night, Lock
lier thought he would quietly wheel his
battery up the road and see If he couldn't
catch Mundy outside of his Notifications.
So he laid il his rife before him and set
the wheels a-going. He had showed them
> about quarter of mile. and was just
turning curve in the road, when he heard
scramplng noise on his left Mundy
had fanked him. By the light Of the
) moon he could see the old man on Iii
knees behind fence, showing the barre /
of his shotgun between the rails and get
ting his head down to take aim. Locklie
had no time to lose. He snatched his Fl
he and sighted it. They both fred to
gether. Mundy fell dead behind the ienc
with rifle bullet in his head, and Lock
; lier tumbled into his battery with clever
y buekshot in his breast. He lived abou
J four hours, and declared if he hadn't beel
e listening to the crickets he would hav
= seen Mundy before the battery passed hin
u The wife and daughter buried the tw
men, divided the twenty head of cattl
- and got all the property"