The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-05
Stabbed TO DEATH.
LIndsay lIeCord tne VlctLIn.

a Terrible and Sad Tragedy.
Last Saturday night about II o'clock
Lindsay McCord, young man Of Pu-
laski, was fatally stabbed in the neck in
the Star Saloon, on ghe Northeast cor
ner of the square, by John Msrshall,
the bartender. Several persons were in
d The room when the stabbing occurred,
aud others rushed in Immediately after
itwas done, hut, strange 70 say, no one
y was able to tell who did the stabbing.
AFR. McCOrd was stabbed Immediately
/ through the carotid artery and bled to
death almost Instantly. Esq. Alexan-
/ der was Immediately sent for, and OH
arriving empanneled jury of inquest,
who Immediately commenced to take
evidence in the case, but did not render
verdict until Tuesday evening, in
consequence of conflicting testimony on
immateFiai points and no testimony on
the main point, Persons going into the
saloon when the alarm was given met
two or three persons unknown rushing
from the house and found within John /
Marshall, Whit Bunch, Jesse Ashton,
and Lindsay McCord lying upon the /
floor weltering in blood and breathing |
his last. John Marshall by some means /
managed to get out of the house and
left for parts unknown. He met some
gentlemen in another part of town to
whom he said that he had just killed a
man in self-defense, and on Tuesday
Lob Il.
west of town, came in and esCified be-
fore the jury that Marshall stayed at
his house Saturday night and told him
that he had killed Lindsay MeCord in
Upon this evidence the
jury found verdict of killing IN self
defense. Mr.. Whit Bunch was found
in the saloon with an open knife in his
hand and cursing and threatening any
one who would lay hands on him. He
was taken by an officer to Jail that night,
but upon the rendering of the verdict
as above, he was released, there being
no evidence to criminate him, the evil
dence on the contrary going to show
that he was MeCori's friend and was at
tempting to defend him. Marshall had
not been apprehended up to yesterday.
The event created great excitement
and CONSERVATION when it became
known Sunday morning, and the Court
House was crowded all day to hear the
Of witnesses by the Coro-
ner's Jury.
Lindsay McCord was a young man
about p years of age, and although he
had yielded to the temptations of the
world and INDUCED freely in its sinful
he had u warm heal and 1
was liked by many. 1t was not dreamed
that he had such a dangerous enemy,
for although he dissipated TO some ex-
tent and chose a walk in life which
threw him without the pale of the social
circle, allowance was made by all for
his young and ardent nature and his q
freeness of heart, which rendered him q
more liable to succumb to the blsndish- [
nents of tinseled sin, and the feeling {
produced among the people, which or
linarily would have been that of dis
gust and spurning, was softened into
pity by knowledge of these facts. His
fate was sad one,- his death a terrible
Dne, and his end untimely, and his life
md death is a glaring lesson to those
who indulge in those nlegitimate pass |
lines and pursuits which brought him
so early to his death. We deeply feel
for the bereaved family, who, besides
heir natural love for a son and brother,
owed him for the goodness of heart he
exhibited at home, to which love was
added a tender solicitude on account of
ais habits.
Mr.. McCord was buried in the new !
Monday evening.