Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-04-22
Tragedy In Baltimore.
A FATHER KILLED WHILST AvENGING
A DAUGHTER'S WRONG.

In Baltimore, about noon last We'd
nesday, in a pistol encounter. Mr.. Isaac
d. James was killed, and Denwood b.
Kinds and his brother Harry Kinds
were wounded.
It will be remembered that on the
Oath of December last VIM. x. M.
James, son of Mr.. James, went to the
business house of Robert Moore d Co..
cloth dealers, No. 257 West Baltimore
street, where Dsnwood B. Kinds was
then employed, and opened fire on him
with revolver. Kinds returned the
fire, and after number of shots had
been exchanged the two men were sep
arated. None of the wounds which
they received were serious.
It was understood at the time that
Miss Lizzie James, sister OF young
James, was the motive of the shooting,
her friends claiming that young Kinds
had been her betrayer. On the 10Th OF
last month Miss James, whose nervous
system was completely Frustrated. was
seized with puerperal commissions with
in few hours after becoming a mother,
and died.
All this sorrow and disgrace preyed
upon the mind of the father, and it was
feared by those who knew. and to whom
he confided his grief, that if he should
ever meet young Kinds he would kill
him.
About noon on Wednesday he met
Denwood B. Kinds andhis brother Har-
nv, when he drew his pistol. DenwoOd
B. Hends backed and fell into an area,
instinctively throwing up his left arm
| to his face for protection. Mr.. james
fired, the ball striking Kinds in the left
forearm, and glanciEg off to his face,
| inflicted flesh wound under the neith-
err lip. Kinds lay still, and James,
turning back, walked around the corner
| to Fayette street. The next thing seen
he was peering around the corner, and
as Kinds was then in the act of rising
he again drew his revolver. From the
position in which he stood he was COM
pelled either to expose his body entirely
or shoot with his left hand. Kinds drew
bis pistol and began firing the old man
still advancing on him. The younger
| Kinds then seized Mr.. James from be.
hind and pulled him down, and the
brother, rushing forward, struck him, il
is said. with his revolver. During the
struggle Mr.. James's pistol went off and
the ball struck Harry Kinds in the fle-
| shy part of the right forearm.
Mr.. James was killed. There was 8
deep wound ia his breast three on his
breast three on his forehead, and one
| in the back of bis head, leading to the
belief that one of the balls had gone
through the brain.
| When the news of the tragedy reach
ed Mr.. James's home. his adopted
daughter Mary James, received such 8
nervous shock that her physician doubt
ed whether she would recover.
Harry Kinds was threatened with
Iockjaw FROM the wound he received in
| the arm.
Mr.. james, the deceased, was MARI
ed on the 22d of February, l849, and left
next day for California. He started
from st. Joseph, Mo-, with party o.
men equally as adventurous to walk
across the plains, and reached the gold
| fields safely. After making money he
returned to Baltimore, and then went
back to the Pacific coast. He accompa
MED Gen. Walker in his famous expe
dition to Nicaragua, was afterwards
until the beginning of.the late war. an
engineer on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, and during the war hell ths
same positions on the Richmond anc
Danvilie railroad. He was for some time
engineer at Tnomas's oyster-packins
house corner of Arch and Lexington
streets, and at the time of his death was
shifting engineer at the Locust Poin
elevators His life was one of adventure
aud heswas much respected.
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