Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-10-17
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bright, who had no means Of
bis own, lived off Caffrey, who
was well off. au N4ffes
One day the two boon COM
panions had been drinking very
heavily at the Magnolia saloon.
s'CsTrey, said Albrights. ''5eu
must lend me to-day fifty
dollars. l VIII give you the
money back tormorrow.,.'
"To-morrow means never, /
suppose" was the reply.
"And what if it did!'' cried
Albright, angrily. "Now, |
want you to give me two thou
sand dollars"
Caffrey turned liyid with rage.
"Albright," he said, 'syou are
an Internal scoundrel.''
"And you," retorted Albright,
care a d-d
sir rCowARDhY ASsAssIN!'
The two men clinched, and a
long scufile cnsued. The other
persons in the saloon did not
interfere, but they listened at
tentively to every word the two
men uttered. Finally Albright
threw Caffrey down.
81 have good notion," cried
the infuriated sporting man, ito
serve you as you did those Two
poor young fellows, one of whom
you told me you had reason to
believe was your own son."
At last The ar-tender separa-
ted them. An hour later both
Caflrey and Albright were ar
rested by the Sheriff. Albright
was so frightened when he was
told that he had been appre-
hended OH suspicion of being
one. of the murderers of Verrie
and Shannon, that he made a
clean reastof the whole affair.
lie stated. that after the duel
Caf'rey had waylaid the two
young men, and shot them dead.
Then he had put their pistols
into their right hands and drag
ged them into the cane-brake.
He had said that he believed
Verrie was his son because be
had held illicit intercourse with
the young mans mother. To
prove Caffrey's guilt beyond a
doubt, he said that Caffrey had
taken from Verrie locket con-
tanning q portrait Of the young
mans mother. lie, was. tried
for murdel,l found guilty, and
hung at Montgomery. a
Albright, as an accomplicc,
was sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment. nlaf wla "
When the clergy of the
Methodist Church South dis
covered that the debt of their
publishing house in Nashville
had reached 100000, they be-
gan an inqhiry. Some remark
able disclosures have been the
result. The chtire management
of the house, upsto The time
when the investigation began,
was in the hands of the Rev.
DIR. Redlord, His management
was lavish and his ideas of
booh keeping eccentric. At one
time he added $4,000 to his own
salary without authority. He
lent So, 900 from the funds of
Che house to a bankrupt. En-
ployces say that after the stock
had been ipyoiced, preparatory
to making areport TO the Con-
ference, the assets remaining
disagreeably small, DIR. Redford
added 10 per cent. all around.
lie wrote volume on "Metho-
dism in Kentucky" In his ca
pacity as literary censor he read
and approved the manuscript.
In his capacity as general direc-
tor, he had it printed and bound
from the funds of the house at
a cost Of foity-six cents per
copy. In his capacity as au-
thor he sold the work to himself
as general director at a price of
$1.20 per copy. He followed
his "Methodism in Kentucky
with several other books, which
he approved and appraised and
sold with the same liberallty. lr
this way $4,000 passed from
the treasury of the publishing
house to his own private ac-
count. DIR. Redford has beer
/ displaced.
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