Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-05-01
StOwv Of the Wml;--An Rnst Zen.
nessee R0mance - how nn
Expectant Brfde Avenged
Her Lovers Murder.
Chattanooga Times. ]


Chattanooga Timesl
A prominent citizen o. this city
gives US the following account Of "A
Romance In real life, which occurred
here 10 our own land: ain over
ton county, Tennessee, during the
war, there lived pretty petite, slen-
der, gray-eyed young lady named
Mary. She was betrOthed to a
young and popular physician OF her
neighborhoOd, Df. kaddler. AL
though that section of country at
the time was In the federal lines,
quite number of confederate SOL
diers had left their commands, and
lurking in the Fecesses of the Cam
berland mountains, carried ON an
irregular warfare, decidedly more
injurious to unOiiendtng citizens
than to the federal army. Among
the number was an individual who
once belonged to the command
known as the 'Louisiana Tigers
His lawless conduct made him q
terror TO the country where he ope-
rated. DIR. Saddler by some means
became the object of the Tigers ha-
tired, and one day meeting the doc
tor, without any known provoca-
tion shot aud killed him. Mary's
only brother was away in the con-
federate army, her father was an
aged and feeble man and could not
avenge the wrong that had been
done her in the murder of her
devoted lover. She resolved that
the murderer Of DIR. Saddler should
die.
Not many months elapsed when
one day she WAS informed that the
desperate Tiger was at neighbours
house. Putting on her sun-bOnnet
and taking a navy pistol, with the
use of which she had become famil-
lar, preparatory to the hostile meet
ing, sherepaired to the place. When
she arrived the Tiger had left the
house and was in the yard with his
pistols buckled around him. Before
the steady gaze of the impressive
gray eyes, expressing a resolution
not to be mistaken, the Tiger fed.
She began firing. Three shots from
her pistol made as many bullet holes
in his person, and he fell a corpse.
After walking fifty or sixty steps,
the distance of the last shot to the
place where he lay, and satisfying
herself that he was dead, she. an
nounced to the neighbors and fam
ily, who had come out Of the house
on hearing the firing, "that she was
avenged for the death OF DIR. Sad
der" She re-captured SOME arti-
Giles of personal property which the
Tiger had taken from the person Of
DIR. Saddler, and quietly returned
to her home. A few months after
the occurrence the writer happened
to meet with Mary; being In good
practise, and thinking myself a
good pistol shot, j bantered the
young lady for a match. The re-
suit was an inglOrious defeat for
your humble servant. r.
A few days ago at Kingston, after
transacting my business and bidding
all goodbye, j took my seat In the
hack with the driver and a strange
lady dressed In mourning, to return
to Emory Gap for the train. John
was new driver and not very
good one. Thoughts of being left
by the train induced me to offer my
services as a Jehu, which We're aO-
cepted. After having gone some
distance 1 drOve too near some
brush and one of them struck the
bonnet Of the lady. / ventured an
apology, which was accepted, a con-
versation ensued, and to my sur
prise 1 discovered that il was the
Veritable belle heroine who slew
the Tiger. Many years had passed
but from her conversation learned
that she was still the victim of mis-
fortune; yet she was on another err
rand prompted by love and affec-
tion. She had loved again, mar
ried, her husband had been drowned
in the Emory river, and she had
come from the state of Kentucky,
still wearing the weeds of mourning,
to place a tombstone over his last
resting place. Time had changed
Mary's appearance In many res
poets, but the clear gray eye, which
denotes as much resolution as Ma
poleon ever possessed, is bright and
unchanged, and IL she were to tell
me now that she had come to kill
me, would have no hesitation in
believing every word she said.
inquired If she still kept up her pis-
tol practise. Without giving di-
rect answer, she intimated that she
could still use one If necessary"