The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-04-05
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IhI We fiHffthS feli6xdn y ptHtiuAliArs
of the.RHAsneiih71 iAthah county
Heptuekyygon the nighLpf;thef16th
of, March, of John NORRIS formerly
a citizen ofthisiviclnity, and whose
parents nov reside heaf .Morristo@B
in the Clinton on llskyD n mnso9frgr
e Last Thursday might saliNaungl man
( named. John Norris ,Yas shot, and killed
7 by Mr.. " :. u. Vance in the southwest
fcrfi part OF this eouhty. The particulars
| of the affair, asr weV haveI been 1ablcb 70
get them. ,spe these = vMF.o Nance had
! Morris employed to work, on his farm
Morfis living IN tie house as Ole OF I lie
family. On the day named Mr.. Vance
eAnedo town 40 mill = but beforeiil eaV-
ing sent Morris TO a nsighbors' 70 help
hor1e,f about the middle OF 'tifc after
no0ns he found Morris there, sittti1g
outside the yard readieg "a testament.
Nothing unusual occuIred Hntu bed
time, when, Mr.. Vance directed Morris
to take a lamp and GO up staifs'to bed,
lie refused to go and demanded his pay
Mr.. Vance told him he would pay him
in the morning and again told him to go
co bed Morris then left the room NUT
tering in a low tone, but Nv Vance did
not, d car him, being partially deaf. The
door to the room was shut and fastened,
but after some lime Morris returned TO
the door and demanded sdmittance, at
the same time demanded hispay and al.
SO a young lady who is living with the
family, and threatened that he would
have both his pay and the. girl or he
would wade through blood, and with
this threw himself again3t the door and
burst il open. Mr.. Vance, with the as
sistance of his mother and the girl, sue
ceeded in pushing Morris out and clos
ing the door which they secured. With
loud profanity and threats against their
lives Morris left the house TO get an ak
he said, to break the door with aud kill
those inside. The matter assuming this
shape Mr.. Vance prepared to defend
himself and house. He at once armed
himself with a pistol, and directly
Morris came to the door and made an
assault upon. it forcing it open. Mr..
Vance called TO him to desist aud not 10
enter, on pain Of death. To this Nor
ris paid no attention and as he entered
Vance shot him, the ball entering his
brest and ranging toward the heart, as
was afterwards discovered. Without
speaking Morris turned as soon as he
was shot and ran out of the house and
to the yard gate where he was found
dead a short time afterwards. An ex-
animation of the matter was held Satur-
day by Esqrs. Scott and Galloway, of
the Moscow district, and the facts sub
stantially as above stated were ELECTED.
whereupon the court decid ed it as a
case of justifiable homicide. Mr.. Vance
is a man of property and esteemed good
and, peaceful citizen, and it only was
under such provoking circumstance
that he could be induced to do a rash
ami The young man Morris had been
With Mr.. Vance ten days, but nothing
particularly singular had been noticed
OF him, and it is belle yed he was seized
with fit Of insanity, in which condi-
ton there is no telling what he would
have done had he not been killed as he
was and when he was. He, had stated
that he was from Morristown, e. Tenn,
where he said his parents resided.