New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-06

One of the most horrible affrays on record
occurred at the residence Of Colonel Martin
Keary, on the eastern limits of Vicksburg,
on yesterday Sunday morning. The facts
of the case are, as We get them from parties
who were present, as follows:
Some time since Mr. Jones, captain of the
ferryboat Geisse, married Miss Keary, an
only daughter Of the colonel, who was on q
visit to her fathers residence in Eicksburg,
her mother living at their home near st.
Louis. Shortly afterward the colonel was
called to New Orleans, and while there
Jones got on spree at home. He abused aud
threatened to kill his wife, then proceeded
to break up the furniture. This resulted in
his arrest and incarceration in the county
10 !, where he remained until recently, when
Colonel Keary secured his release on bond,
took him home, and told him to remain
there and do what was right. And thus
The inmates of the house had been
up until q late hour, and it is thought
that Jones had imbibed quite freely.
At an early hour he was up creating q
disturbance in his wifes room. he took a
shotgun and said he was going to shoot q
goose which was walking across the yard.
His wife demonstrated with him and eaid
her father would be angry. He replied with
an oarn rnar he did not care, saying. II am
going to kill everything and everybody on
the place except you" He shot OF the head
setting the gun by the door. The cook, q
colored woman, overheard his remarks,
and seeing the gun, took it and carried 1t
up to Colonel Keary's room. She awoke
him and told him what Jones had said and
done. As she came down stairs Jones asked
her where the gun was, and she told him.
He told her she was too Ctticious sand he
would kill her. He commenced to beat
her, when the colonel came down
turned upon him. wrenched the gun
from his hands and dealt him heavy
blow in the face, burying the hammer IN
his forehead near the eye, and another
blow on the shoulder, breaking the breach h
OF the gun. At this jnncture Colonel
Keary succeeded in getting hold OF the
broken gun, and turning upon him broke
in his skull at the first blow, following 1t
up with several successive blows, leaving
him dead near tie cistern, with MS head
mashed to atoms and horrible gashes in his
body.
Al last accounts Colonel Keary was not
exnected to live. and had made his will.
Both Colonel Keary and his son-in-law
ware large. muscular and powerful men.
and the struggle for the mastery, upon
which lite depended, must have been ter
rifi0 SuCh o deadly encounter can Do cc0-
tamplated only with feelings of horror,
Since the foregoing was in type, we have
receiyed the Vicksburg Sentinel, containing
a lengthy account of the horrible conflict,
from which it appears that Colonel keary
and Jones were not the only ones engaged
therein. The following is the verdict OF the
coroner's jury. copied from the above-men'
toned journal: .. -
We, the undersigned jury of inquest on
the body of Christopher Jones, having maze
a full examination of the body OF the oe-
ceased, and made full inquiry into al cir
cumstances and causes connected there
with, do find that deceased came to hle
death from wounds inflicted upon his head
and body by three persons, to wit: Martin
Kearv, Patrick j. Keary and Daniel O,Cal
lahsn. with gun or guns used as clubs
and knife or other sharp instrument, and
that thev were acting in self defense, and
william William French, J; W; conkIin. I,a.x,nan, Jchr
Cratchlow, Joseph Hazelett, Alexander
Powell and P. T. Strother, jury.
Colonel Keary is now lying in very pre-
carious situation. and little hopes are enter
tained Of his recovery.-Jackson' Miss's
sippi, Times.