The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-02
Another Shooting. Aflhiz Between Rev.
enae OMcers and @ Citizen.

Another shooting difficulty has occurred
between Revenue officials and O citi-
zen. but this time the citizen receives the
shot instead of Revenue officer. The
usual two. sided story reaches us, aud we
will give it Just as we heard it, reservIpg
comments 1utilwe ara ia possession Of
ell the facts. The story of the Revenue
officers as related by Gary to o gentle
man from whom we derived it is az fol-
lows: They found Joab Alexander, stand.
ing in the door ofthe house, whether still
house, or dwelling our informant did not
know, and when ordered to surrender
he fired ct Perry Looper, but overshot
him, whereupon Looper pulled down
and got him." Another report from
the Revenue side is that tbs bullet. or
shot from Alexander's gun cut @ Lock
of hair from Mr.. Lnoper's head. The
other side Of the story is (and it 10 di-
rectly from the neighborhood) that the
Revenue officers surrounded Mr.. Jere-
miah PowelPs house about daylight or
O little before. and making their pres
ence known, Mr.. Alexander, who 10 @
son-in-law Of Pnwell's aud lives in the
house with him, went to one of the
doors and opened it. When he did 80,
he saw w. F. Gary and Lee Fisher
standing in the door with gun pointed
at him. He thereupon turned and went
to the other door, I've euppposa there
were only two doors to the house),
opened IL and ran out In order to make
his escape. Looper waB at this door,
ald E.ed - Alsxan ar, ss;i.a sssios .tiik-
ing him in the hip and side. Aiexan-
der ran about ten sters after being shot
and fell. The Revenue officers went to
him gave him some whiskcy, carried
him back into the house and left him.
DIR. King has since extracted one buck
shot from his body and DR.. Priest, three
squirrel shot. There are sixty or some
shot holes in his body, about four or Eve
of them being buck shot the others equir-
rel shot. Alexander wac splitting up
blood on last Sunday morning and was
not expected to live. We will publish
all the particulars when .we obtain them
reliably, with such comments as we think
the affair demands. Alexander lives In
a cove called "Rocky Bottom" in the
mountains OF this County, near the North
Carolina line.
Since the above Was put Ia type, we
have conversed with o gentleman who
visited Mr.. Alexander on last Sunday.
He Informs .ne that he. learned from Mr.
Alexandef's and Powells families that
Mr. Alexander did not ehoot at Mr..
Looper. He did not have even pocket
knife about his person, being in his night
clothes. Mr.. Alexander says that Lee
Fisher had the gun pointed at him at the
frat door ho opened, and when he went
to the ether door, he cav Looper, with
his gun, and e1n!a have eas.chea Il fron,
him, but knowing Mr.. Looper and being
r. nj .s.r 4. 2 4 \ =
would shoot him and concluded to rnn off,
knowing that there was warrant against
him, Looper shot twice and Lee Fisher
once at him. He ran ebout $50 yards
instead of ten steps before he. fell. The
oficers carried him back into the house
by his request, but never said q word
about his arrest. The gentleman from
whom we get this information thinks
MFR. Alexander will recover, notwith.
standing 78 shot entered his left hip and
thigh. Pickens Sentinel.