Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-20
NUMBER 2ls.
MURPHY,s SHOT.
The Al1e0ed Insult Orered by Young Ash.
Madelia Times.

MURPHY,s SHOT.
me -ate0ed Insult offered on Yomng .ash.
Madelia Times.
Yesterday there occurred in our VILLAGE tho
s ss Tragic scene that ever happened in all
.nis vicinity. young man named Samuel
Asn' son OF William Ash, of Beaver Dam, Wis,
ana nephew of G. D. Ash, of this place. was
sns' by Capt. W. W. Murphy, also Of this
place. and there are great fears one of hi.
wounds is mortal.
samuel Ash was 10 years of age. He arrived
here from his home the I'd Of July la.t ms
visit. bis cousin, George wished him to HELM
..a.i LII u. Tue Iarm, which he did one month then
went TO work for NJ. Bradford. in Riverside
l1e"hshlp' VINO considered him generally well
disposed, but boyish. Through work there, he
o .atnea 20 Town Yesterday morning. having his
That morning B. o. Kempfer told his little
daughter, nine years old, to go and salt his
t t IN pasture near railroad bridge, above
Town. BENG timid she asked that her half
sisse', fourteen years old, might go with her.
a s:a., consent was given that the latter and
~" orotner might go. The children went to
Mr. Murphy's house and his eldest na,obter
aged eight years, also went with the chifdyen'
taxing the railroad track they went about half
way from the highway crossing to the bridge.
when, seeing man coming from the bridge
s1Waiu 'hem, they turned off and got over the
nv aI th.o ,ne pasture southeast of the road
Inc eldest, Cora Crisswell, took the salt and
went farther over toward where the
colts were. The man they saw came down on
poslte them, set down his satcbel and
came over to near where Cora was. asked who
hVeo IN certain houses about there and what
'o"h chls was. Being answered he soon made
vie propositions to her which being refused
tn 10
he walked toward her, when the other children.
VINO mad heard him talk. screamed and he re-
turned TO the railroad. He required them all
20 come to him. said he would not hurt them.
ana only had tried to scare them. They ali
u1u 30 ana came down with him to the crossing
He turned towards town and the children went
TO MIR. Murphy's, near by, and her dauphtey
told Mrs. Nj. what bad happened The other
children went to where MIR. and
Mrs. hempfer were, on farm
near the depot, and told them. MIR,
~: TOOK Cora and went to the 10 o'clock train.
"hich came IN soon after, but looking through
IL she ldentlhed no one on board. Coming up
town, Sheriff Glispin was sent for and search
was made, when Cora identified the man. II
was Samuel Ash, and he was standing in his
uncle,s yard. Mr.. X. sent Cora to tell the
sheriff to come and stopped himself, at Mr..
JOY corner to watch the man.
Seeing that he was watched, he came across
the street to kempfer and asked il he was
looking Tor HIM. He replied that he thought
ne was the one who had insultcd his children.
Young Ash said he was, and was sorry for what
he had done and would like to compromise the
matter. Mr. kempfer replied it was not in his
power to do it, and they walking up
toward Glispin's house young Ash gave
himself up. This was at IL O'clock The
young man expressed himself IA very penitent
at the foolish act he had done and that he did
not realize how bad it was though he had not
lalo hands on any one. At noon the sheriff
discovered he had lost his watch while search
ing Tor young Ash before his arrest and he
now took his prisoner to help search for it, who
| ana so as faithfully as he did himself. Return
| Ing from this search at l P. NJ, they met B. O.
kempfer, @. A. Kempfer and Capt Murphy
near j. N. Cheney residence. The last two
had come from Murphy's home, nearly
a mile distant. The former had
joined them in town. Capt. NJ. sup
posing the man to be tramp had taken
his shot gun, one barrel loaded with chicken
| SHOT, with him, and had said he would shoot
the fellow if he found him, but when told by
y. ". hempfer who he was, and that he was in
the hands OF the sheriff, the latter thought he
had abandoned his desperate idea, and only
wished to see the prisoner. The three mem
TONED coming up to where the sheriff ard pris-
/ oner were. Murphy asked the latter il he was
| the man who tried to do something to tn. chill
dren he replying he was, and was sorry for it:
| uhen MuIph remarked: He ought to be.
shot The sheriff said: Better let the law
take its course" to which Murphy replied II
| think so" The same moment he turned to
young Ash and said: Wouldn't you like to
look in the muzzle of gum and tipped his
| gun toward him in an obique manner the stock
near the ground, the muzzle toward Ash's
breast, and in this position it was exploded.
The charge struck the victims right arm about
midway between the hand and elbow, carving
away piece to the depth of the bone, and en-
| tered his breast between theribs little TO the
left OF the breast bone and little below the
nipples. Murphy claims it was an accident.
and gave himself up, but young Ash says it was
done on purpose, and so claims whenever it is
mentioned. Sheriff Glispin was taken perfect
| ~ by surprise having no knowledge that Muir
ply was any way interested, and surprising he
he been armed he thinks he should have shot
Murphy.
After being shot, Mr.. Ash was brought on a
cot to his uncles residence, where he is receiv-
ing the best medical care and nursing. tele.
gram was sent to his father at once His
wounds were dressed as soon as his condition
would permit when it was found the charge
had passed through one lung, near the heart
and broke the left shoulder blade His con
dition was about the same this morning, but he
was very weak from loss of blood and in much
pain.
Mr.. Murphy had preliminary trial yester
day and gave bail of $500 to appear at the dis
trict court.