The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-02
Another Shooting. Affair Between Rev.
enue Officers and Citizen.

y Another 6h00tl0g olmculty mas oCcurleu
between Revenue. officials and citi-
zen, but this time the citizen receives the
shot instead ofa Revenue officer. The
usual two. sided story reaches US, and we
will give it;iust as We heard it, reservlng
comments 1utilwe: are in possession Of
aall the facts. Thestory of the Revenue
officers as related by Gary to q gentle
man from whom We derived it is as fol-
lows: They found Joab Alexander, stand.
ing in the door of the house, whether still
house, or dwelling our informant did not
know) and when ordered to surrender
he fred at Perry Looper, but overshot
him, whereupon Looper "pulled1 down
and gct, him." Another report from
the Revenue side is that the bullet, or
shot from Alexander's gun cut O lock
of hair from Mr.. Looper's head. The
other side of the story is land it is di.
rectly from the neighborhood) that the
Revenue officers surrounded Mr.. Jere-
miah Powe!I's house about daylight or
o little before, and making their pres
euce known, Mr.. Alexander, who is q
3son-in-law Of Powell's and lives in the
house with him, went to one OF the
doors and opened it. When he did 80,
he saw W.T. Gary and Lee Fisher
standing in the door with a gun pointed
at him.. He thereupon turned and went
TO the other door, 1--WE suppose there
we're only two doors to the housei,
opened ii and ran out in order to make
his escape. Looper wss at this door,
and fired at Alexander, the shot strik-
ing him in the hip and side. Alexan.,
der ran about ten steps after being shot
and fell. The Revenue officers went to
him gave him some whiskey, carried
him back into the house and left him.
DR.. 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 squir-
rel shot. Alexander was 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. s.sg ; !.
Since the above vas put in type, we
have conversed with gentleman who
visited MI. Alexander on last Sunday.
He Informs us that he, learned from Mr..
5Alexandet's and Poweil's families that
Mr.. Alexander did not shoot at Mr..
,Looper. He did not have even a pocket
knife about bis penson, being in his night
clothes. Mr.. Alexander says that Lee
Fisher had the gun pointed at him at the
first door no opened, and when he went
to the other door, he saw Looper, with
his gun, and could have snatched it from
him, but knowing Mr.. Looper and being
friendly with him, he did not think he
would shoot him and concluded to run of,
knowing that there vas warrant against
him. Looper shct twice and Lee Fisher
once at him. He ran about 100 yards
instead of ten steps before he fell. The
officers carried him back into the house
by his request, but never said word
about his arrest. The gentleman from
whom we get this information thinks
Mr.. Alexander will recover, notwith.
standing 78 shot entered his left hip and
thigh. .-Pickens Sentinel.