Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-01
nshington Post Dem J, August o.

~ dAcO AOi hAo Sullohbi dhh udIlluSSs.
Beside that he was presented not long
ago with a handsome gold watch as
testimonial from the citizens, and also
with a solid silver pitcher. These
were public recognitions. He has been
called a carpet -bagger. He is not SO.
He was Southern man, born in Vir-
ginia, and went to Mississippi when
eighteen years old. He married Miss
Annie Niche, only daughter of Major
Niche, and a member of most infu-
ential family. He never drank drop,
neither was he a desperate. We are
going to prove what | tell you"
HowY inquired our scribe, as his
Faber moved rapidly over his note
book.
" | have telegraphed to-day to my
brother, Mr.. Frank Dixon, in Yazoo,
to send US Henry's correspondence.
This will include letters from the
Hon. Otto Singleton, speaking in the
highest terms of him. There are
other letters, too, which we are going
to have published, no matter who they
hurt"
But the killing of Harrison -"
Let me explain that, interrupted
the lady. " Harrison and my brother
Henry had difficulty The former
threatened to shoot Henry the first
time he saw him The day he was
killed, Harrison came up to Henry
with a pistol in his hand, under his
arm. Some one said, Look out,
Dixon, there is Harrison Ny brother
turned, saw his enemy ready to fire
pulled his trigger first, and the man
fell dead 1t was simply question oil
who was to fire first. You have no.
ticed, too" Mrs. Shoemaker contin-
ued, that the papers credit Mayor
Holt as saying that the killing was
such a cold -blooded murder that he
could not take bail for it, together
with other equally beartless state
ments. Why, sir, Mayor Holt was
such firm friend of Henry that when
the mob threatened the latters house
he stood with a gun protecting him
and threatened the life Of the first
man that advanced. All the public
sympathy was on the side of my
brother. When he was acquitted late
at hight, he was carried home on the
shoulders of the people" "
What do you know about this man
Morgan ?"
=" He is a carpetbagger, and came
South from Ohio He ran for the
Office of sheriff, the incumbent at that
time being a man appointed by the
government, and not elected. This
man, whose name | forget, also ran
| The election was claimed to be a tie
Both men walked up to the court
house to be sworn in. When Just
inside the door Morgan drew a pistol
and shot the sheriff dead without q
word. There was intense excitement
for the murdered man was liked, and
Morgan was in danger of being mob
| bed. But he implored that Captain
| Dixon might be sent for to protect
him. My brother came, and, facing
the crowd, drew his pistol. He
threatened to shoot the first man who
raised disturbance, and got Morgan
safely to Jail. After a while the mat
ter Quilted down, and Morgan came
out. As an instance of my brother
generosity, he paid for the murdered
mans wife a mortgage which her hus.
band had left, and also educated her
child"
Has not Morgan a mulatto wife ?''
Certainly he has. That is well
known in Yazoo, where it increased
his popularity. He was run out Of
the county at last. will tell you
how. There was a political meeting
advertised by the Radicals to which
they invited the Democrats fer dis
cussion. Ny mother and party went.
Morgan got up, and in a speech said
something about Ames. Henry re-
piled: " You are liar, and Ames is
rogue Instantly there was the
greatest confusion; pistols were
drawn and numerous shots exchanged.
| Ny brother had nine bullet holes in
his coat In less than five minutes
the Radicals had be6a cleared from
the room. and Morgan was chased out
side the borders Of the county. He
has never returned, and never will"
What have you heard of the kill
iugegr, 2,
| Henry's wife, the facts being IN the
/, main the same as those in the papers.
The only difference was that Henry
ran as an Independent candidate.
This pgt his associates down on him,
| Yet Mr.. Singleton assured my mother
that his election to the sherifialty was
certain. Henry, | acknowledge, was
a bulldozer. That is what makes the
affair so strange to me.
Mrs. Dixon, the mother Of the de-
ceased, had an interview With beoro-
tary McCrary Friday nighS, with a
view to Obtaining if possible, protec-
tecti6H for her other son, Frank, who
is about twenty-five years old, Mr.,
| McCrary assured her that he antici-
pated no harm to him. He was not
in politics, and had nothing Tor WHICH
to fear. Mrs. Henry Dixon andl chill
dren have been teleTaphed for and
will be here in few days.
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