Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-02-21
An Attempt to Assassirats the
Governor Of Louisiaxa,


There is belief among large nuu-
Der Of Intelligent people Of the Nu d
that Georgia, North Carolina, Alxbama
and Mississippi we're carried in the late
election by ,,stem of Intimidation,
BY burning out, whipping, shooting and
hanging, cosplc Of months before
election day. A large number Of peo-
pie Believe that the aforesaid States
were carried for Tildeu in no other way,
and despatch from New Orleans last
Thursday, that q murderous attempt
had been made to take the life of the
Governor Of Louisiana strengthens that
belief. 1t is q world wide known fact
the ex rebel element have set up gov.
ernment Of their own 10 that State, and
BY hook and crook have been irving to
get rid of the Packard government.
The last agent employed has been the
assassin. Most possibly it was believed
by the bad men fer uone are SO mis-
guided as bad men-that the Commis.
sion at Washington would decide in
favor of Mr.. Tilden, on that day, aud
then the Nicolls government in Louisi-
ana, in whose interest the assassins
seemed to be acting, would be estab
/ lished.
The great mass of the party in the
North who followed Mr.. Tilden, GER
tainly are opposed to such murderous
work, but if their chieftain had been
elected President. the men who would
have controlled them would be the men
who are hand and glove ip with the as
ssssin. Here is the account of the at
tempted assassination last Thursday, By
an eyewitness
Two men, one of them the wounded
man, who gave bis name as Joseph Hut
tie, but whose real name, from papers
found IN bis possession, Is ascertained
to be w. II. Weldon, aud a slim, one.
armed man, who gave no name, called
at the door of the State Capitol and
asked to see Mr.. Packard. There was
some demur about admitting them,
when one proclaimed h,mself to be an
eI- Federal officer and the other . dis
charged soldier. They we're brought
to the head of the stairs, where Weldon
represented that be was correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press and desired
to see Governor Packard. The name
of Joseph Huttle was seat in, but the
one-armed man declined to enter. Wei
don reached the Executive Office, where
be found Mr.. Packard seated at his
desk, talking to Judge Brremsn, of
Csddo, who occupied a chair on his
right. Weldon sat down in /, vacant
chair Immediately on Mr.. Packsrd's
left, and after an instant somewhat
sharply asked: "W hen can See you 7"
Mr.. Packard TUNED and found a pistol
aimed At his head. He Immediately
struck it down, and the weapon was
discharged, the bal striking him in the
right knee cap and infictIng = slight
wound. Mr.. Packard immediately
dealt the man blow with the fist,
striking him between the eyes and
knocking him down. Several parties in
the room drew their pistols and fired,
woundins the would be assassin serious
ly, but not fatally. Of course scene
of intense excitement Immediately fol-
lowed. The one-armed man was ar
rested and conveyed to the Office Of the
superintendent of police, and Weldon
was kept close prisoner in the Execu-
tive Office. Mr.. Packard was conveyed
to his private apartment, on the second
foor Of The building, where his wound
was examined by DR.. W. A. Smytbe.
1t IS not Of serious character, but
might prove so if not carefully tended,
and will lame him for several days.
The man who shot Packard saws that
his name is William Henry Weldon
an6 that bis home is in Philadelphia.
He says further that he has mother
and sister living ihcie. With regard
TO his attempt to kill Packard be says
that there were four others with him,
who we're to have assisted him in the
undertaking, but tina. upon reaching
the door of the State House they re-
fused to go in aud left him to carry out
the intended plan of assassination alone.
Weldon is not very seriously hurt the
ball struck him in the left arm, just be-
low the shoulder, and seems to have
come out at the elbow. 1t was thought
at first that be was killed, but II seems
he was only stunned and feint from loss
of blood. At hslf-past IL be was so
much revived as TO be aole to converse
with those about him.
That's Ny Husband" |
"Two ladies', unknown to each other,
stood at the shawl counter of . St. |