The daily gazette., 1878-11-23
The "CoIdwelI'' Shooting.

''eSihVOiit httolhcy y-Ocucldl
remington, accompanied by DR.. II. O.
ogle, went down to Townsend, and pro-
ceeded to the house of Andrew Caulk,
COL, near Van Dykes where the colored
man, James Jones, who was shot early
on Wednesday morning last, is still ly-
ing.
When they entered Caulk's house they
found Jones propped up in bed, looking
very comfortable, and chewing tobacco.
DIR. Ogle examined the wounds in his
head and probed for the bullet, but was
unable to find it. The Doctor is there
fore of the opinion that instead of there
having been two wounds, there was only
one, caused by the ball passing entirely
through the mans head, just above the
skull. Jones was left in favorable con-
dition, and the Doctor thinks he will re-
cover. He is now under the care of DR..
Tarbutton, of Masseys.
To the Attorney General Jones made
a full statement of the affair, which did
not differ i'll any material point from that
already published in the GAZETTE. He
staunchly adheres to his statement in re-
lation to his knowledge of the sins of
the Dodson girls being the reason for the
assault upon him.
Constable Rose will leave for Balti-
more on the 1.05 p. m. express to-day
From Baltimore he will go TO Annapolis
in order to obtain the necessary papers
from Governor Carroll for the removal
of the suspected parties from Chester
town Jail. He will probably return to-
morrow and on Monday will leave
Townsend for Chestertown in order to
procure the parties.
THE REQUIsITIoN.
The requisition for the arrest of NJ essrs.
Newcome and Vincent, and Mrs. Amelia
Dodson, was issued by Secretary of State
Grubb, this morning. The reason it was
not issued yesterday was that there ex-
listed legal lnformality in the affidavits
then presented to the Secretary, which
would not warrant the granting of the
requisition. Upon the return of Attor-
ney-General Pennington, this morning,
he at once proceeded to the office of the
Secretary of State with the affidavit and
specific charges which he had obtained
from Jones, whereupon the Secretary
issued the requisition and placed it in the
hands of Constable Truman Rose for
service.
Il Visit TO the Dodson Fanaily-They De-
clare the accusations against them
Fdlse-Their appearance and Demean-
or-1He Prisoners-F'urther State
ments by the Wounded Man.
From the Baltimore sun.
CHEsTERTowN, MD, Nov. 22.-After
a drive this evening through heavy
rain and almost Egyptian darkness, the
representative of The Sun was ushered
into the sitting room of the Dodson fam
ily, where were stated Mr.. DodsoD's two
daughters, quitely engaged in domestic
sewing. The young ladies are progresses
ing In appearance and manner, and over
an hour was spent very agreeably in their
company, awaiting the return of Mr..
Dodson. The sisters have ladylike and
gentle department, and there is nothing
either in appearance, manner or general
bearing that would lead any one to sus-
pect them of being other than the vir-
tuous young ladies they have been gen
orally esteemed in this community. They
conversed very pleasantly and readily on
eyery topic introduced, ,and save an effort
to insure composure, which was occas-
sionally apparent in the elder one, there
was nothing to indicate the existence of
such terrible ordeal as they are going
through.
The young daughter, Dora, was per-
fectly self possessed, and looking at her
innocent, girlish face, it was impossible to
connect her with the fearful story of the
colored man lying thirty miles off, near
Vandyke's Station, so terribly mangled
and abused.
The elder sister, Alice, stated that she
was married last August to William Pret-
tyman, a commission merchant, of Phila-
delphia that she resided in Philadelphia
and that she was home now on q visit.
She denounced the whole story of Jones
as one base fabrication, and said that he
mad a most unenviable character and
SUI tcioi' ~ oA''Stp
said that Jones had been living with
them two years next Christmas that he
was not man of evil habits, so far as
they knew that he drank, but not to ex-
cess that he was trusted with the keys
and considered honest. He had given
no indication by his conduct of his in
tention of leaving, and that when he
failed 10 appear on Tuesday morning
they we're much surprised. Said Mrs.
Prettyman, since that night he has not
been seen on the place. and of course g the
whipping could not have taken place, or
ANYTHING else been done to him.
STATEMENT OF JOHN F. DoDsoN.
Mr.. Dodson is about fifty years of age,
feet 10t inches in height, OF wlry ouilu,
side whiskers, pale face sharp smile, sort
| of drawls in talking, of indifferent educa-
tion, but sharp and shrewd. ne cal4e
| into this county some years ago: ne
and bis wife are members of the Meth
| odist Protestant Church. MT. Douson
denies that there is the slightest toundar
| tion for the statements Jones mas maae
in relation to his daughters having ne
Ultimate children. Jones had hveu VIII
Rim nm to last Monday night, was.a Ialr
hand. of an accommodating and obhglng
disnosition. Never had any trouble Win
him. he was the only colored person on
the farm, Mrs. Dodson aud her daugaieels
do,ng the bousework and cookipg-
Found Jones. missing whenhe ca'ieo n'ii
on Tuesday morning. ros, absanca