Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-01

70 lRe feADody hotel. In front OF the
entrance TO the hotel are tive large lamp.
posts, and while all this loud ~conversa-
ton was going on in the midst Of the
crowd, Mr.. Alex. Woodbridge stood
up against the south lamp.post
and heard every word that Mr.. Wait had
said. Mr.. Woodbridge looked pale and
determined, and his right hand was in
his pants pocket, his left shoulder being
the Iamp-post. About this time
Mr.. W. R. Lucas stepped from the curb.
ing, where be had been standing, and
walked out into the street 10 the direc-
ton of Converse's billiard saloon, on the
opposite side of the street. As he did SO
Mr.. Wait started to go into the Peabody,
and had made two or three steps when
he confronted Mr.. Alex. Woodbridge.
Their eyes met, and Mr.. Wait, evidently
surprised, commenced repeating what he
had said before, and added that no gen.
tleman would ask him to sign that paper.
In an instant Mr.. Woodbridge stood erect
and drawing q pistol suddenly said,
Cd d-n you, -" fred, and i'm.
medistely Fred a second shot. he was
preparing to fire a third shot when a
gentleman (Mr. Burns) ran up and
caught hin by the wrist; another gen.
tleman came upand took the pistol from
him. What be said to Mr.. Wait no one
seems to recollect, but they all agree in
asserting that he said, cd d-n you,
u" etc.
As above stated, on being shot, Mr..
Wait fell back and took a seat on the
cap Of the lsmp.post, when he used the
words written in the fore part of this
article. Mr.. Woodbridge and a FREUD
hurried away up Main street, toward
Madison, but before reaching the corner
they turned into Cut off" alley and
passed into Center alley, then out to
Madison street. Here Mr.. Woeldridge's
friend left him, aud he walked to Front
street and passed up the street.
AFTER THE SHOOTING.
There was great excitement on the
street about this time. Mr.. Wait was
carried up stairs to a room in the Pea
body Hotel and medical aid was sum.
moned. DR.. Nuttall was summoned,
and Soon afterward DR.. John Erskine
was called in. On examining the
wounds n ball was found to have en-
tered the left side in front, a few inches
above the hip This ball traversed the
bowels aud was cut out on the opposite
side. The ether ball entered the left
breast, higher up, near the nipple, and
its purse could not be traced with the
probe. Mr.. Wait was soon suffering in
tensely from violent pains in the bowels
and was given morphine. He became
sick at the stomach, but in a few hours
the pains and feeling Of sickness passed
away and he rested easy. He remained in
that condition during the night, and this
forenoon was feeling very we'll. 1t will
be impossible, however, for the physi.
clans to come to any correct conclusion
concerning his condition for several days.
RAID BY POLICE.
The police soon after the shooting
scattered throughout the city in search
of Mr.. Woodbridge. He was seen going
up Front street toward North Memphis,
and was said to have crossed the river.
All kinds of rumors we're in circulation,
but Mr.. Woodbridge managed to effect
his escape without difficulty. Police
commissioner Frank appeared to be very
much excited, and he ordered Chief of
Police Athy to surround and guard the
block on the south corner of Main and
Madison, in which block Mr.. Oscar Wool
bridge has his Office. Chief Athy, Cap
tain Weatherford, Captain Arrata
and eight patrolmen took possession
of the building, guarded its approaches
and exits, besieged it on all sides,
and completely cut of all its communi.
cations with the outer world. The block
ade commenced at half past three
o'clock and continued throughout the
night and until this morning, when the
Police Pasha's forces were withdrawn,
and they fell back to the Adams street
citadel. The office of Mr.. Oscar Wool
bridge was searched by the police, as
we're also some other rooms, but Of course
the police found not Mr.. Alex. Wool.
bridge. Everybody except the wise
police heads of the force knew that Mr..
Woodbridge was not in the building.
When Captain Arrata, with eight men,
could not succeed in arresting the negro
Bacon, at the Peabody Hotel, and per-
mitted him to walk out in front OF his
force, how could Chief Athey, two cap
tains and eight men, be expected to ar.
rest Mr.. Woodbridge in a building in
which he was not2 But police intelli
gence and brains are different from the
intelligence and brains of all other PEG
pie. The intelligent p%eelers are always
on the detective scent, and are contin.
ually smelling a rat; but if the rat
smells many of them, the rat has the
worst of it.
WHAT Is SAID.
The friends of Mr.. Alex Woodbridge