Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06
IN JAIL FOR MURDER.

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IN JAIL FOR MURDER.
At Napoleon, Ohio, on the night before
Christmas, Gen. Robert X. Scott, one of the
carpet-bag Governors of South Carolina, and
now resident of Napoleon, Ohio, shot and
killed a young man named Drury. The tele-
gram first announcing the affair stated that
intense excitement prevailed in consequence Of
the shooting. and that Scott was taken to De-
fance for safe keeping, there being talk OF
lynching him at Napoleon. Aspecial dispatch
from Defiance, to the New York Herald, gives
the following particulars Of the tragedy:
Your correspondent called upon Governor
Scott to-day and was referred to his attorney,
G. H. Scrbner, of Toledo, who is here, and
whose statement of the tragedy at Napoleon,
Ohio, on Christmas morning, is as follows:
Governor Scott, wife and son are boarding
at the Miller House, in Napoleon. The son is
about fifteen years of age. On Friday evening
there was great deal of bad conduct on the
streets, the young men of the place drinking
and carousing, with a great deal of loud talk.
Mrs. Scott became alarmed at the absence OF
her son, and got a hotel clerk named Stout to
look for him. The Governor had retired, and
some time after, hearing persons uttering
threats Oh the street about shooting Stout,
Mrs. Scott, urged him to go and hunt the boy.
The Governor dressed himself, and, having
found Stout, inquired if he had found his son.
Stout said that he had, and had brought him
to the hotel, but a clerk at a drug store named
Drury had got him away from him. The
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was informed by young man on the street
that Drury had him in the drug store. The
Governor went to the front door, ratified and
called and finally succeeded in arOuSng the
clerk, who opened the door and said the boy
was not there, and insisted upon the truth OF
his statement. Governor Scott told him that
from information he had, he knew he was
there, at the same time walking toward the
rear eIid OF the sr0rpf6off and again telling the
young man he must find his boy and take him
home. The Governor started to 60 to the
door opening from the rear of the storeroom
into another room, when young Drury placed
himself before him and told him if he attempt
ed to enter that room it was at his peril
Again the Governor told him lie must get
his boy, and made movement as it to enter
the roOm Drury reached over, as it to take
weight or other weapon from the counter, and
at the same time made movement like draw
ing IL pistol from his pocket. At the same
moment, Governor Scott drew pistol from
his overcoat pocket, when it accidentally ex-
ploded. The Governor says that his first
thought was that he had been fired at-by some
one, but soon saw that the young man was
hurt, as he sank back on the floor. 1mmedi-
ately afterward the Governor heard his son
calling from up stairs. He went into back
room and up the stairway, and found his son
in an intoxicated condition locked in room
at the head of the stairs. lie brought him
down, hurried him to the hotel and sent men
over to see how badly the young man was hurt.
They found him dead. On examination the
surgeon found the ball had entered under the
left jaw, ranging upward into the brain, SHOW
ing that the pistol was not fired OH level.
Governor Scott was brought here last evening
by the authorities and has been placed in con-
| fmement here over Sunday.
Young Drury was to have gone to Pittsburg
in a few days to marry Miss Luckey, daughter
of Prof. Luckey, Superintendent OF the public
schools of that city. She is a teacher III the
High School. When informed of her lovers
violent death she swOoned away, and is said
| to have remained inSenSible several hours.
Drury was a Mason, and after the pOst-mOrtem
examination that fraternity took charge Of the
| body. arrayed in the suit which was to have
| been his wedding dress, and sent him to Ell
more, O., his former home, where he was bu-
ried on Tuesday.
On Monday following the homicide, Scott
had a hearing at Napoleon before Justice Pay
ton, who pronounced the deed murder in the
first degree and committed Scott to jail.
The following further particulars of the af-
fair are furnished by a correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette on Monday after the TRACE
dy:
All Northwestern Ohio is intensely stirred
up over the tragic fate of young Drury, who
was to have been married tomorrow to Miss
Dora Luckey, I'LL estilnabe and highly accom-
plished young lady, who has recently been
teaching in the public schools of Pittsburg.
She had resigned her position and was to have
come West to-day. The young lady's mother
had been opposed to the marriage until recently,
but it was arranged that after the marriage
ceremony had been performed at the Hotel
Madison, in Toledo, Mrs. Luckey was to step
out and tender her congratulations and Dles-
sings upon the young people. =,
Drury seems to have had preSentment OF
his fate, or at least trouble from some source,
as he had been threatened by some of the
Young Edy's relatives in case he pushed his
suit. 1t has transpired that OH Friday, when
a telegram was handed him, which proved to
be from his atfianced, with reference to meet
ing her in Toledo, he remarked to friend that
next Tuesday he would either be married or
dead In less than twenty-fOur hours his
lifeless body was found lying in his employers
drug store, weterng i'll pools of blood. On
Tomorrow his funeral will take place, the day
on which he was to have been married
Saturday, as may be readily imagined, was
the gloomiest holiday ever experienced III Ma
poleon. There was nobody to say Merry
Christmas.' Yesterday was very quiet and
orderly in town, compared to the day previous
but | find that the strong feeling which at
first set against Governor Scott has merely !
subsidized, not passed away. This has been
aggravated by the fact that the Governor .
passed ly the fallen body of Drury and took
his SON to the hotel without paying any at
tention to the deceased; but the principal
cause of the feeling was the fact of the Cover
nor's wealth and influence, many old and sub
stantial citizens of the town and county de-
claring in an excited manner that the prisoner
would be able to buy his way out. However,
others suggest that the Governor could have
closed up the drug store Immediately after the
shooting and with u horse and buggy, got
away to Canada before the affair would pave
been discovered next morning, or if hs had
said nothing about it, there would havelbeen
no direct evidence against him. The latter
points are in favor of the Governor, WHO was
willing and anxious to appear before the coro-
,pr on Saturday but his attorneys adVl5ed not.