Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-24
AN AWFUL AFFAIR.
Attempted Burglary and AS
SaSSination.
Two Unknown Men Enter a Res
idence At Night.
One Of the Burglars Killed and
Mr.. j. j. Garrot6 Badly
Wounded.

Great excitement prevailed in
GAINESVILLE Tuesday morning when
the news was circulated that Mr.. j.
j. CARROT had been badly wounded
during the previous night by some
desperate burglars, who entered his
house, and that one of the burglars
had been found dead in Mr.. Gar
rott's yard. Everybody was anx-
-ious to hear the full particulars of
the terrible affair, and the air was
rife with rumors as to how it &C.
Cured. Nearly every one had a
different version of the details, and
it was easy to hear anything you
pleased as to how it all happened.
The CHRONICLE, therefore, took
pains to get the news from an au-
thentic source, and we will vOuch
that the following is as reliable a
statement of the facts as the excite
ment incident to the occasion will
admit of being told /:
Mr.. CARROTS residence is situated
in an isolated place, about a half
mile beyond New Providence, two
and one-half miles from this city.
1t is between the Dover road and
the Hopkinsville pike, about three
hundred yards from the former.
Mr.. CARROT and his wife live alone,
and there was no one else on the
place Monday night except a negro
woman who occupies an out house.
They retired at 9 o'clock on the
night mentioned, leaving the blinds
to a window that opened on the
porch Enclosed, as was their habit.
They think it was about ten O'Clock
when they were awakened by a
loud crash at the window. Mr..
CARROT sprang from the bed and
rushed into the hall to get his gun,
and returning fired at man whom
he saw coming into the room
through the broken window. I'M
mediately another man who was
already in the room, fired at Mr..
CARROT with a pistol. There may
have been more than one pistol
shot, but it is certain that Mr.. Gar
rott was wounded in the left breast,
the ball penetrating the upper por-
ton of his left lung and lodging in
his shoulder. The burglar and
would be assassin sprang on Mr..
CARROT Immediately after firing and
a desperate struggle ensued, in
which Mrs. CARROT Joined. Mr..
CARROT placed the muzzle of the
gun against his unknown adversary
and called on his wife to pull the
trigger, but she didn't succeed in
doing so. The gun was broken IN
two pieces during the struggle. Mr..
CARROT finally threw the burglar on
the floor and gave him a terrible
choking. While in this position he
called on Mrs. CARROT to bring his
razor, intending to use 1t on the
villains throat, but she was not
able to find it. The burglar escap-
ing from Mr.. CARROTS hold, crawled
under the bed and called for
Frank" to come to his rescue. Mr..
and Mrs. CARROT succeeded in dis
lodging him from this retreat and
then by main strength pitched him
out of the window.
This ended the fight, and then it
was that Mrs. CARROT performed an
act that proved her to be an intrepid
heroine. She ran barefOoted and
alone to the residence of Mr.. J. II.
Tandy half mile distant to give
information of what had occurred
and to have assistance brought to
her wounded husband. Mrs. Gar
rott had her wrist sprained in the
fight and both of her arms are badly
bruised. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Gar
rott are large people and stronger
than ordinary men and women.
THE COOKS STATEMENT
of the affair is probably somewhat
colored by a vivid African magma
ton. She says there were four or
five men in the yard and that they
all ran away after the first shot and
that one man staggered up against
her house and fell there groaning.
The latter part of the statement is
doubtless true; a dead man was
found at the place designated next
morning. She also says that the
men who ran away, fired several
shots when some distance from the
house. This has an improbable
sound and leads us to believe that
the existence of those four or five
men was more in the wOman's eX-
cited fancy than in the real facts of
the case.
THE RATTLE GROUND.
In the room where the struggle
took place hat and a pistol were
found. There was also Ii Ne club
on the porch and a fence-rail that
had been used to break in the win
dow was lying partly in the room.
There was no blood in the room or
at the window where the man was
shot, but the clothing about his
neck where the shot entered indi-
Gated that he bled freely.
THE DEAD MAN.
The man.found dead in the yard