The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-14

SHOOTING AFPRAY IN MARSHALL CoUN.
TY.-A report being current on the streets
last night that Mr.. Thomas Mccormick,
the well known livery man, had shot and
MORALLY wounded Mike Riblet, near
Limestone, Marshall county, an INTEL.
IldENCER reporter last night sought Mr..
Mccormick Tor the purpose Of ASCERTAIN.
ing the truth or iGlsity OF the rumor.
Mr.. Mccormick stated that he had un.
fortunately been compelled 10 shoot Rib.
let, and gave the following account ofthc
shooting:
On Tuesday evening while he was
driving near Riblet's blacksmith shop,
about three miles and half from Lime.
stone, his wagon broke down and he
stopped at Riblet's 10 have 1t repaired.
Riblet insisted upon him staying all
night, promising 10 repair the wagon
early in the morning In case he would do
so, and Mccormick finally consented and
put his horses In tho stable. Riblet then
left the house and did not come back I'm.
Ill about dusk, when no was considerably
the worse for liquor. After he had been
in. the house a short time he asked his
wife for some whisky, and upon her re.
fusal to give him any he knocked her
down. Mccormick interiered, when Riblet
turned upon him and ordered him to leave
the house, swearing that he would kill
him. There were two rifles hanging up
in the room, and as Riblet proceeded to
take one Of them down for the purpose Of
putting his threats into execution, Nc
CormiCk concluded to leave, and did TO-.
Riblet then drove hiswife and her sister,
who was staying with her, out Of the
house, and they were compelled to spend
the night in the cornileld.
In the morning at an early hour Nc.
Cormick took his horses out Of the stable
and went to the house Of Jerry Lucas,
about a mile distant, where he
found Mrs Riblet and her sister.
Mrs. Riblet prevailed upon Lucas to
go to her husband and ask him il she
could not 90 back, and Mccormick sent
word by Lucas 10 Riblet to repair his
buggy as soon as possible, II he intended
to do 80 at all, as he desired 10 return to
tue city. Riblet told Lucas that il
Mccormick came after the buggy he
would shoot him, and that he intended to
take his axe and smash the vehicle into
kindling wood. Lucas had not been home
long before RiblCt put in an appearance,
armed with formidable looking knife,
and declaring that he intended
to kill Mccormick. A young man
carrying a gun on his shoulder
happened to come along about this
time, and Riblet took hold Of the gun
and attempted to iorCibly take possession
oft, with the intention Of shooting Nc.
Cormick. Both Mrs. Riblet and McCor.
mick called to the young man not to let
Riblet have the gun, and he refused to do
80, holding it so tightly that Riblet was
unable to wrest 1t from his grasp. Seeing
that he was foied in his efforts to get
possession Of the weapon, Riblet started
toward Mccormick with his knife. Nc.
Cormick drew his pistol and warned him
to keep away or take the consequences.
He still advanced and Mccormick moved
backward some forty or fifty feet, when
he was stopped by fence. Riblet con.
tinued 10 advance upon him, and when
he was within six feet OF him Mccormick
fired. The ball passed through the chin
and lodged near the base OF the skull.
DR.. G. W. Hoskinson was speedily sum.
moned, and after examining the wound
announced that he could not tell whether
or not it would prove fatal; after the
effects Of the whisky drank by Riblet
disappeared, he would perhaps be able to
give u more satisfactory opinion.
Mr.. Mccormick returned to the city,
and expresses himself as willing at any
time 10 undergo an examination, feeling
satisfied Of an honorable acqutital. Rib
lei is vCryilarge man, weighing over 200
pounds, and is about 40 years Of age.
His reputation is bad, he having served u
term OF four years in the penitentiary for
malicious shooting. He was still living
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon.