Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-29
SHOOTING WIN.
Hitting n Harm Door aud a We
mans Calf

mans CaAIs
The vicinity Of Webster and Georgia
streets was in an uproar late yesterday
afternoon. A couple Of hdndred
darkies ia that neighborhood acted as
if they thought the lines Of the old
song had really come to pass, where
they say, us broke loose in Georgia"
The trouble occurred in this wise;
Colonel 0'Bannon, a graduate of West
Point Military Academy, Army Quar-
termaster under General Bragg, ex.
jailer of Shelby county, manager Of
several brick yards and other enter
prises, and now a miner in Mexico,
arrived home from the Guadeloupe
Mountain country, of North Mexico,
a few days since, on a visit. His
family occupy a handsome cottage on
Webster street, one door north Of
Georgia, in the southern portion of the
city. The ColoRel carries firearms
when out on the border, and he knows
how to use them. Yesterday, doubt
less forgetting himself in the limits Of
a populous city, he undertook to empty
his pistol at a mark on the back fence.
He merely wished to clean the weapon,
aud had no idea of cleaning out the
ue~ighborhood or killing anybody.
The fence is only an inch thick, and
tie bullets he turned loose went clean
through, and it is said through one or
two other planks besides. One bullet
shot itself through the several boards,
and across the street into the calf OF
Della Maxwell's leg. The latter was
in her own domicile aud heard the
shooting. then felt the bullet, then
screamed.
The Colonel was oblivious to all
surroundings, behaved in fact as if he
didn't know a soul lived within a hun
bred miles. He kept shooting, and a
carrier delivering papers made a
miss from catching one Of the
scattering bullets. After a bit some
one raised a head over the fence, and
sung out, "Say, you've shot a woman
the street, and you'd better hold
up long enough to see if she isn't
To say that Colonel O'Bannon was
surprised, is drawing it mild. He
went to see his suffering victim,
offered to hire nurses and doc
tors, and expressed his profound re-
grets. The people began to
and some got mad. A brother
of Della wanted revenge and donned
his war paint. After shouldering a
shot gun, a powder horn and other
hunting traps, he found he. had no
percussion caps. He couldn't kill the
Colonel without a cap so he took a
stroll. The nearest grocery is a quar-
ter of a mile of. Arriving there, the
perspirstion oozing from every pore,
and excited worse than the crowd at
the theater during the shipwreck
scene, the grocery man asked if he
was going on a deer hunt. No boss,
be said, Use not. A man shot my sis
ter down here and Use going to see
bout dat. Give me a box Of caps"
By the time be arrived at the scene Of
the trouble the battle had ended and
he cooled of before doing anything
desperate.
Meantime finding the damage he
had inflicted upon the Aeshy calf, Col
O'Bannon visited the victim Of his
stray shot, and expressed regrets. sym
pathy, ETC., and offered all proper
amends in the shape Of surgical and
other aid at his own expense. He did
not wish to be arrested and delayed So
be could not return promptly to Mex
leo, as a force Of miners depend for
.sustenance upon his return
TO that field Of operation.
About that time Officer Charles
Wilson, colored, arrived upon the
field, and undertook 50 capture the
beligerent Colonel The latter would
not stand it, said no such blustery
negro should take him. be was a gen.
tleman and would be treated as one
ought to be, and Mr.. Wilson was
waved of. Later Constable Madison
Warner, armed with a warrant, ap
peared and Col. 0'Bannon, expressing
surprise that nothing hut niger off,
GERS we're available to arrest a man,
said be felt like a law-abiding citizen
should feel, and that he would go with
Warner, but not with 50 mean a niger
as Wilson. He went to the Station.
house and from there was permitted to
return home, 10 answer this forenoon.
For not arresting Col. UBannon
promptly, or for other defective and
alleged unohcer-like conduct, police
mar Wilson va suspended from duty
last evening. This morning Colonel
O'Bannon made an affidavit ezho1-
Grating Wilson from any alleged i'm
proper conduct.
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