The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-06-02
AN EASY TENNESSEE ROMANCE.
How a Young Lady Avenged Her Lovers
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In Overton County, Tennessee, during
the war, there lived a pretty petite
slender, grey-eyed young lady named
Mary. She was betrot6ed to a young
and popular physician of her neigh bor-
hood, DR.. Saddler Although that sec
ton Of country at the time was within 2
the Federal lines, quite a number OF
Confederate soldiers had left their com
fhands and lurking in the recesses of the
| Cumberland Mountains carried on an
| irregular warfare, decidedly more it1iur-
iHus to iInofending citizens than to the
! Federal army. Among the number was
an individual who had once belonged. to
the command known as the Louisiana
| Tigers" His lawless conduct made him
| terror to the country where he oper-
| ated. DIR. Saddler by some means be-
| came an object of the Tigers hatred,
and one day meeting the Doctor, without
any known provOcation, he shot and
killed him. Mary's only brother was
away in the Confederate army, her
father was an aged and feeble man and
could not ayetge the wrong that had been
done in the death Of her devoted lover.
She resolved that the murderer of DR..
Saddler should die
Not many months elapsed when one
day she was informed that the desperate
Tiger was then 1T neighbor's house
Putting on her sun bonnet and taking a
navy pistol, with the use of which she
had become familiar. preparatory to the
hostile meeting, she repaired to the
place. When she arrived the Tiger had
eft the house and was in the yard with
his pistols buckled around him. She
accosted him; told him that he was the
murderer of DR.. Saddler and she had
come to kill him. Before the steady
gaze of her impressive gray eyes ex-
pressing a resolution not to be mistaken,
the Tiger fed. She began firing. Three
shots from her pistol made as many bull
let holes in his person, and he fell
corpse. After walking fifty or sixty
steps the distance of the last shot to the
place where he lay, and satisfying her
self that he was dead, she announced to
the neighbOr and family who had come
out of the house on hearing the fir ng,
that she was avenged for the death of
DR.. Saddler." She recaptured some
small articles of personal property which |
the Tiger had taken from the person of |
DR.. Saddler, and quietly returned to her
home 5t @ ta
A few months after the occurrence
the writer happened to meet with Mary; |
being in good practice, and thinking |
myself a good pistol shot, I bantered the |
young lady for a match. The result |
was an inglorious defeat for your humble
servant.
A few days ago at Kingston, after
transacting my business and bidding all
goodbye, / took my seat in the hack
with the driver and a strange 'ady
dressed in mourning, to return to Emory |
Gag, for the train. John was a new
driver and not a very good one.
Thoughts of being left by the train in
duced me to offer my services as Jehu,
which was accepted. After having gore
some distance drove too near the brush
and one of them struck the of the
strange lady. I ventured an apology,
which was accepted. A conversation
ensued, and to my surprise I discovered
hat it was the veritable belle heroine
Who slew the Tiger. Many years had
passed, but from conversation | learned
The was still the victim of misfortune;
yet she was on another errand prompted
~ love and affection She had loved
lgain, married, her husband had been
drowned in the Emory River, and she had
:ome from the state of Kentucky, still
wearing the weeds of mourning, t. place
tombstone over his last resting place.
Time had changed Mary's appearance
n many respects; but the gray eye
which denotes as much resolution as
Napoleon ever possessed, is bright and
and if she were to tell YOU
low that she had come to kill me. ]
would have no hesitation in believing
very word she said. inquired if she
till kept up her pistol practice? With
ut giving direct answer, she intimated
hat she could still use one if neces.