The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-12-30
A HORlxlALE AFFAIR.
II. X. Scott, Of South
Ca4Olina, shoots and Kills n
Young Man ut Napoleon, q.


TOLEDO. December 25.-Your cor
respond, Mt has just returned from
Napoleon, thirty-six miles west on
the Wabash Road, which place was
this morning the scene OF startling
tragedy, hich has shocked the hole
community, and caused tho greatest
excitement, owing to the prominence
Of one Of tho principal parties con-
cerned in the affair. This was ex-Gov.
II. X. Scott, formerly of South Caro-.
lima, but originally a Maumee Valley
pioneer who shot and instantly killed
a yeung man named Warner D-ury.
1t seems that last night a young son
Of Governor Scott, Il. X. Scott, Jr.,
aged about 16, was out OH a Christmas
Eve lark with another young man
named Drury, aged about % years,
aud both had been drinking heavily,
and, AS is customary on such occasions,
the town was full of bibulous and
noisy young men. Towards midnight
Governor and Mrs. Scott sent from
their hotel two or three times for their
son, but tho parties could not get him
away from Drury. Meantime, the two
young men had gone to bed over a
drug store, but got up again and start
ed out, after the proprietor had gone
away. Flnall ibout one O'Clock, the
Governor wen, himself to the drug
store, and being let inside by Drury,
demanded that he DO allowed to go up
stairs after his son. AS there were no
other Witnesses to the affair, the Gov.
srnor's account is the only one obtain
able. lie states that he was resisted
BY Drury, who obstructed hisfurther
advance up the stairway; that as he
went to 20 past him, his revolver,
which was in the mouth OF an over
coat pocket on the right hand side,
went OF accidentally, the ball taking
effect in Drury's jaw.
Accounts here vary, but the most
correct one is that the Governor then
went up stairs, a party telling him he
had shot Drury, aud he feared he had
killed him.
knowledge of the affair at once
spread through the town, and the ex-
citement became intense. The Cover
nor gave himself up to the Sheriff,
and was kept at his hotel during the
balance of the night, the court house
and Jail haying been burned over q
year ago, and not yet rebuilt. Early
III INC IOrc0OOu uc WAS dTFaiSD6u Do-
fore a Justice of the Peace on charge
Of murder, and pleaded not guilty.
During the day excitement ran high
in Napoleon, and there being many
men in town who had been drinking
heavily, there were the usual threats
and loose talk about lynching the
Governor, especially as many persons
discredited the account given, claim
ing that the shooting was Intentional,
and the result of quarrel. AT eight
O'Clock this evening the Governor was
taken by the Sheriff and large force
of assistants to Defiance, the next
county seat west, and placed in. Jail
for safe keeping. A large mob of
half-drunken men followed him on
the same train, bat no serious trouble
was experienced.
Governor Scott is we'll known in
connection with the treublous times
in the South some ten years ago, hav-
ing been Governor of South Carolina
from 1869 to 1872, first appointed by
President Grant,and afterwards twice
elected. Since his return from the
South he has been interested in exten.
sive real eata'e speculations in the vi
oinity of Napoleon.