The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-24
1EORRIRLE TRAGEDY.
A WAYNE County Monster
whips "A Boy and Al 0msAA I.
Badly, and shoots and kills o
WHAm.

whips IN BOY ana
Badly, amd shoots anu kills.
Man.
A correspondent furnishes the
| Wavuesbore Citizen the following par
i ticulars of q horrible tragedy:
It appears that James j, bromley
little SON and a boy whom he had hired, !
had solne difficulty, which resulted In
fight the hired boy coming out victorious |
Bromley found out they had been lighting |
and chastised his own son very severely
it is said he beat him almost to death;
He then went to the mother OF the hlred
boy, and wanted her to whip him. lthe
bow but whether she refused to do so OF
, not, cannot say-anyway, they got lnto
row. which resulted IN 6romley
knocking her down and beating her
| nearly to death, and for awhile he thought
: he had killed her. He then sent for doc
| tor to attend to her wounds. Before the
I physician arrived Bromley went back
y home about a.quarter of mile, and arm
I ed himself with double-barrel shot gun
i and a navy pistol. He returned to the
n woman's house and inquired if she was
e dead, and they told him she was not oeau,
). but likely to recover. Tins seemeo
y to infuriate him, and being under the
l influence of liquor he said that none
o of the id Brewers should come there
~
At had sent for He Immediately went on
l. up the road in the direction the doctor
Ie would come, and it is thought by every
IN one that his intention was to XIII MIN
d He met the doctor about half mile from
the house, spoke to him politely, and
M asked him if there was anything wrong
= between then, (it~ seems that Bromley
en- and the doctor had had little dlthculty
its previously, and he told him not that ne
er knew Of" upon which Bromley askec
~ him to take a dram. They then went OF
- together to the woman's house and tn
n' doctor dressed her wounds.
ire Now, while they were there togethe
,se they made friends, and in the course Q
10 their conversation the man that Bromle
killed was talked Of This man was hvln
ay- ON Bromley's land, and it was well know
md that a man who lived on his land had I
art do lust as Bromley said, and be curse
=. besides. 1t seems that Bromley AND tn
90 man had some little difficulty shortly D
VI fore, but he told DR.. Brewer that bl
the Brewer, the man killed, and hlmse
nth would get along all right-that ne M
G. nothing against him. Bromley and Il
ioi elder Brewer then separated, and BroI
rest lev went home. From there he went
that his threshing machine, which was at wo
less in a rye rye field near by, and inqulr
Il. for Bill Brewer He then remarked tn
he would go over and put him to work
He then went over to Brewer S hou
and saw him and his wife coming trt
u;uo the potato patch Bromley walk
through the house to the back door,
pay waited for Brewer and his wife to CO..
hree up. When they were within six or Ell
died feet of where Bromley stood, he spoke
7. Brewer very politely, and told hlm
halt and the next instant raised ms
heV' and shot him down by the side OF his W
ded. the whole load consisting OF eleven 6u
ed: shot, taking effect in his neck, kill
,5oo- instantly. The wife, terror strlck
81 Immediately ran to the nelghbor
81 houses and spread the news, and eV
,Inn+ one in the neighborhood was afraid to
to see about it. Some of the height
mary did slipup close enoughto see that 1t
80 so, and then went back to let the murde
,Ia mans folks know about it. They ca
49,, down, went to the house, halloed at
fence, and could find no one; they t
. lose went into the house, but could still see
The one They then went off, and sent
~ of the bows to a man named Jordan,
.borS also lived on Bromley's land, to lnq
NE g H. about Bill Brewer. He rode up to
take renee alp calleu - M IL IL, a,vbat in
hill he wanted with Jordan Inc
told him nothing much, when BroI
paper fired at him, but missed his aim; three
rs OF four buckshot taking effect in the,
ID yet he was riding. Bromley then made
news, escape, and when last heard from
paper had got on the cars at Florence, supp
which to be going to Arkansas.