The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-06-14

He came swaying up from below, sinsI
For Pm Little Buttercup,
Dear little Gutter Pup

For Pm Little Buttercup
Dear little Gutter Pup
when the Justice gently asked him if he woul
stop his noise.
Cant do it, 'Squire-rll lose it'll lo'
THE ORIGIN.
The affair grew out of game of seven up"
| Lawrence White and Ted O'Connor playing
| against Henry Monroe and another man. As
they were playing, Thomas O'Connor, Teds
brother, came in and looked on as they played.
As the game neared the close, Monroe made a
mis- play, and Thomas suggested how he should
have played, whereupon Monroe, nettled at the
loss of the game, and being besides by no means
friendly to O'Conner there having been for years
| a violent feud between the families, who are
lreiShbors, told Tom 10 mind his own business or
Ieave the house Tom said, in effect that he
didn't have to leave for any man like him "
X Monroe), to which Monroe replied that if he
\ Tom) would come out to the barn he'd see
whether he had or not" So they went to the
barn with some Others, Lawrence White and Ted
FOConnor going 'to see fair play" Tom O'COu-
nor and Monroe then fought--a furious fight, as
Joe Pool said, not mans fight but a dogs fight
and as they fought Mat White came into the
barn and ordered Lawrence to stop the fighting
| by separating them As he attempted to do this,
Tied OCOnnor drew his revolver and threatened
10 shoot Lawrence if he touched them Mat
/ White thereupon struck Ted in the face and,
shocking him down, took his revolver from
him and fired the five loads into the river, telling
IO'Connor he should be more careful in handling
q revolver The fighters by this time had been
II ways, bruised, cut and bloody. After the fight
was all over, at OConnor's request, Mat gave
him back the weapon after he had promised to
put it away and 90 of. After he rcgained posses.
sion of the revolver, Ted said to Mat Damn
| YOU, Mat White, FL settle with you for this, -
and went of muttering that it would cost only a
/ quarter 10 have it reloaded, and he'd give him a
| dose of it, He then went away, through Thos
/ McDermotts blacksmith shop, swearing venge
rsnce on the Whites, and then passed on across
the street and west through the alley between
\ Gillen's and liollecker's. At IIollecker's side
, door he was met by several men, one of whom
seeing his face bruised and bloody, said "Been
having a fght@' No, not exactly; but my
brother and Henry Monroe were fighting, and as
] was seeing fair play, that -, etc, White
struck me in the face" Said some one thought
lessly and laughingly, ale ought to have been
shot" Said O'C.: ~ would have shot him, only
he took my revolver away and shot the loads in.
to the river He then crossed the street and
walked down to Hull Il Bartelss hat store, where
he told Bartels that he had had little difficulty
and would like to borrow quarter which Bart
an old acquaintance, gave him. He then went
directly to Roses gun-shOp, Main St, where he
bought cartridges and filled the five chambers of
his revolver, and thence went directly back to the
bar room of the hotel.
THE SHOOTING or LAWRENCE WHITE.
A. he stepped on the hotel pavement he drew
hs revolver and held it cooked in his right hand,
walking rapidly towards the entrance to the bar
room in the basement. As he descended the
steps into the room, Henry Monroe saw him
armed, and crying out Here comes Ted O'Con-
nor; look out, he's going TO shootn' made for
Ehe rear door. No one seems to have paid much
attention to the alarm thus given, and O'Connor
walked rapidly across the rooT toward Lawrence
Mat White, whom it is supposed he originally