Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-11-11
Killed at the Polls.


AN EyENTFUL LIFE MEETS A VIOLENT
END-A MAN WELL KNOWN IN sTAUN-
TON SHOT IN MARYLAND.
DR.. T. Clay Maddux, of Baltimore. well
known. in this city, a brother of Martin
Maddux, of Augusta, and Mr. Maddux, of
Hurst, Purnell & Co., of Baltimore, was
shot and killed Tuesday, election day, at
Odenton, voting precinct in Anne Arun-
del county, Md The following account
Of the shooting is given by the Baltimore
SUM-" accompanied by sketch Of the
snventful life of the decease. 1t will be
read with interest by his friends here and
elsewhere
DR.. T. Clay Maddux, of Baltimore, was
shot and killed about six O'Clock this even
ing at The polling place of the fourth dis
trict, near Odenton. DR.. Maddux was
accompanied here by several other BalJl-
moreans. The polling place was at the
house of a man named Lowman, who NOV
ed his family away and rented the build
ing for the occasion. The day passed
quietly and peaceablv until the shooting
occurred.
1t had been announced that one person
from each party interested would be allow
ed to go in and witness the counting of the
votes. but they were not permitted to do
80, though number of Baltimoreans were,
it is alleged, already in the main room.
Mr.. Maddux took position at the door
or window of the polling place and refused
to let anybody 60 inside. A resident of
the county made an attempt to get in, and
was, it is said, repulsed by the Doctor.
Pistols were drawn Immediately by both
parties and an indiscriminate firing was
begun, several others participating. About
twelve shots were fired.
DR.. Maddux was shot in the back by
some person as yet unknown and died be-
fore he could be taken in the house. He
endeavored to speak, but could not be I'M
,derstood. The remains were placed in the
polling place. An inquest will be held to-
morrow. Great excitement prevailed dur
ing the shooting. but as soon as it was as
.certained that Ir. Maddux had been kill
ed the diStuI bance came to an end. NO
arrests have been made It is not known
whether OR not anybody else was Injured.
DR.. MadduX was a voter of Baltimore
city. At recent election held in Anne
Arundel county, Dr.. Maddux, who has q
number of political friends here, was pres
ent and took part in lively fight. 1t IS
dllCGCO VAau LILO dStlOA Ch vAlrbu OStNCIOA
was the cause of some OF the people being
so bitter against him.
In October, 1857, he matriculated at
Winchester Medical College, and entered
as student the office of the we'll known
Virginia surgeon, Prof. Hugh I'll. Mcclure,
graduating in 1859. DR.. Maddux is said to
have been an exceedingly apt student i'll
anatomy and surgery In 1859 he located
at White Hall, a small village near Win
chester. Va, but in 1850 he removed to
Richmond. In February, 1861, at the be-
ginning of the hostilities in Charleston
harbor that ushered in the civil war, DR..
Maddux left Richmond for South Carroll
ma, where he was commissioned as assls-
tant surgeon in the army OF the Palmetto
State and ordered to duty at Fort MOul-
trie, Sullivan's Island, being there at the
time of the terrible bombardment of Fort
Sumter, by the South Carolina forces. On
April IA, DR.. Maddux was ordered to re-
port to Capt. Hollinquist, the Captain
having been assigned to the command of
Fort Sumter, While the boat which con-
veyed the Doctor, in company with Capt.
Hollinquist, Gen. Ripley and others was
lying outside and near Fort Sumter await
ing orders to take possession, the memora-
BILE accident Of the explosion of cartridges
occurred on the parapet of the fort as
Major Anderson was saluting the lowering
of his flag One man was killed and sew
eral wounded. The hospital flag was run
up in distress, and DR.. Maddux was order
ed to the fort to render surgical assistance.
Here he amputated leg, the first capital
surgical operation IN the war. Surgeon
Maddux was soon after ordered to Virgin
ia, with the first South Carolina COM
mand, under Gen. Barbour, being attached
to the Second South Carolina Regiment.
An accident to the train again called for
his services. He served as surgeon in the
Confederate volunteer army. and was in
the noted battles of the first Bull Run,
Seven Pines and the seven days battles on
the Chickahominy. He was captured near
Bentonville, N. c., while endeavoring to
get within Gen. Joe Johnston's lines in
April, 1855. During the war he performed
many operations on the field and in hos.
pitfalls. After the war he settled in Rich
moUd. but in 1867 removed to Baltimore.
He was member of several medical soci.
cites, including the American National
Medical Association. He was man OF
decided views and bold in their utterance.
His remarkable GOODNESS and Self-posses-
sion in che presence of danger or exciting
events assisted his skill as surgeon. He
was twice married, his first wife being q
sister OF DR.. A. Hill, of this city, by whom
he leaves one daughter. His second wife
was Miss Belts, who IS of an English fam
lily. She survives him with child eight
months old. She was in the utmost dis
tress last night, and was called OH by sew
eral OF the Doctor friends. A brother Of
the Doctor, living at No. 220 McCulloch
street. also called at the house Of the be-
reaved wife.
Dr. Thomas Clay Maddux was born in
Fanpuior n " Va Fohrt,oru 10 1923
He was the seventh son and twelfth child
of Mr.. Thomas L. Maddux, wealthy
farmer and native of the same place. Thos.
l.. Maddux's children numbered thirteen
all of whom have attained the age of for.
ty. He was a lineal descendant Of Sill
VIM. MadduX of Seven Oak Manor, Eng
land. At the age of twelve years, Thorn.
as Clay Maddux was placed at the Win
chester (Va.) Academy where he remain
ed two years, when he was sent to the
Flint Hill Academy, Loudoun county, Va.
In 1851 he was entered at the Alexandria
Academy, Prof. Brockett, principal. where
he pursued his studies until 1856, when he
graduated. Whilst returning to his home.
after graduation he met Major Henry T.
Dixon, of the United States Army, who is
said to have insulted an old and valued
friend of his some time previously, and
Immediately proceeded to resent the in
suit. There was an exchange Of shots,
DR.. Maddux receiving a bullet through the
neck and lungs. which Occasioned paral-
ysis that lasted for nearly year. He was
so seriously wounded that his recovery
was considered remarkable. After the
war, III 1865, DR.. Maddux met Col. Dixon
in the Mansion House, Alexandria, their
first meeting since the wounding of the
Doctor by Dixon, several years before
An insult passed at the meeting, and two
weeks later, as DR.. Maddux and friend
were standing on the street, Col. Dixon
approached, and when about forty feet off
fired, the ball grazing Maddux's side. He
returned the fire, mortally wounding Col.
Dixon, who died the next morning. DR..
Maddux was also wounded by shot be-
low the knee by Mr.. Vernon, while in
Richmond, in consequence of a cause of
quarrel his assailant alleged he had with
Maddux. During his residence in Balti-
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