Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-11
RENCONTRE ON ST. CHARLES
STREET.

RRSCONTRE ON ST. CHARLES
STREET.
L.. seusr ana II. L.. Smith shoot
Each Other-The Cause of ihe
Difficulty And Description OF the
Fight.
New Orleans Times, Sth.
Yesterday the following card ap
peared in several of the morning
papers:
TO THE PUBLIC.
On several occasions the Times
published untruthful and unwar-
ranted attacks upon me until, in
March last, | warned its editors to
desist. On Tuesday morning it
renewed its slanderous abuse of me
in the following article:
@THE THINNEsT ON RECORD -
soUER's LAST BLOODY : SHIRT
STORY.
"Souer, Breaux & Co. took them
selves to Point Coupee a week ago,
and after their arrival concluded to
hold a convention all by themselves
and nominate a parish and district
ticket. The wharfboat at the mouth
Of Red river was selected as the
location, and the convention was
getting along s%wimmingly when
suddenly an idea struck one of the
leaders.
"They thought they would get
up a splendid bloody garment yarn
and peddle it through the North as
fact. 1t was arranged then that
Weber, Souer & Co., should eyacu-
ate the wharf boat and put out in a
skif, when some of the negroes
were to fire their shotguns in the
air.
"The tea party we're then to
float to Bayou Sara and from there
start the report that the convention
had been broken up and an attempt
made to assassinate them.
Every part of the programme
was carried out to the letter, SOuer
arriving here yesterday and relating
his fearful story of how the bullets
few thick and FAST when they
were in the skiff.
"0f course this will be magni-
fed into an immense sensation for
the Northern Republican papers.
and has undoubtedly been furnised
them ere this"
| hereby pronounce the allega-
tons in this extract from the
Times to be wholly mendacious and
inspired by malice, and | therefore
pronounce the responsible editor Of
that paper a willful and malicious
falSifer. L. j. SoUER.
The article referred to was writ.
ten by Mr.. Harry /. Smith, of the
Times, and, although he is not the
responsible editor of the paper, he
5 assumed the responsibility of the
article, and under the circumstance
. felt called upon to resent the Ian.
guage in the card. Accordingly h,
{ procured a friend and purchased 4
s cowhide.
About 100 o'clock, while Mr.
Smith was standing near the cor
y ner Of st. Charles and Canal streets
) Mr.. Souer passed, going out Cana
in the direction of the levee. II,
had hken not more than two step
h from the gutter when Mr.. Smith
after excusing himself to the gen
"a tleman with whom he was conyers
ing, hailed him and walked rapid,
to the corner.
IS Mr.. Smiths friend still stooc
with the party.
e On being hailed Mr.. Souer stop
,.ped and turned and faced Nj
Smith as he advanced.
On reaching him Smith said
n "Souer, you have published a card,
J. and producing his cowhide h
caught Souer by the right shoulder
and with the cowhide struck hir
twice, and was about delivering
II third blow when Souer release
himself, stepped back, drew h.
t pistol and fired. The crowd sui
/ rounding the combatants at tn
first shot scattered, and they had
clear field to themselves.
! When Souer fired Smith droppe
= his cowhide, threw his hand bac
j to his pistol and endeayoied to dra.
i it, but did not succeed. Still NAL
: ing efforts to get his pistol out, h
backed rapidly from Souer, VIII
had a self-cocker and continue
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