Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-07

at that period OF the hight badly beat
en-, while he had received only flesh
wound in the arm. After fsrcing
me backward to the bar-room door
l prepared to struggle with him for
the fall, bat instead of expanding my
strength, 1 went down as he changed
his hold to wrestle. During all the
running scufffe we each held the 9TH
er's pistol arm, but when we fell we
were disengaged, and turned over
on my right side and covered nv pis-
toll with my left arm, so as to give the
hammer play. Elliott lay fat upon
me- and thrust the muzzle of his pis-
tol into my ribs under my left arm,
saying as he did SO. I've got you
now, you s. Although
l had not got my gun ia position to
suit me Immediately pulled the trig
ger, at the same time brushing his
gun from my body with a quick jerk
of nay elbow just as fired. His shot
hit me in the arm and mine hit him in
the groin, and before he had recover
ed from the shock l had regained my
feet. could scarcely stand, and [
leaned against the table for support
! while he was scrambling to his feet.
| knew that my shots were nearly
gone, and | waited for him to face me
IN order to hit him in vital part.
There was a wait perhaps of thirty
SECONDS before he again faced me,
during which time [ heard some peo-
pie outside the door urging a police
officer to enter, who only stuck his
head in and then fell back and shut
the door.
Just as I raised my arm to fire at
Elliott, who was advancing about
four feet from me, nay gun stuck and
would not revolve, SO [ had to raise
the hammer with my right hand and
tura the cylinder with my left, which
was numb from the shot in the fore
arm, which had hit the bone His
gun must have stuck also, for he used
both hands and snapped it twice with
in foot of my breast. | took pains
not to turn the good cartridges be-
yond the hammer, and just as [ got
1t right he had again become disgust
ed with the attempt to fire, and was
in the act of striking me with his pis-
tol when l thrust the muzzle of my
gun up to his al domen and fired. At
the same instant | rushed in close
upon him to avoid the force of his
blow, and /" back-heeled him and
threw him upon a table, from which
we slid off upon the floor. While
doing to me2" | replied: I'm doing
you up, you big cur" These were
the first words l had spoken from the
beginning of the fight, and the second
time he had said anything. As soon
as he struck the floor, realizing that
the tide had turned and that he was
badly hurt, he said IN low and forced,
calrI tone: Don't do any more; I'm
done" | said Louder !" Then he
said loud enough for every one to
hear him: Il give in, Jere; [ give in, "
A few seconds later one of Pinkerton's
policemen rushed in, and was follow
ed by a city policeman, and dlsarmed
us both.
There was one good cartridge in his
pistol, and one in mine. His was a
Smith 81 Wesson IS calibre selfcock-
ing fve-shooter. Mine was a Colt 3S,
calber seif-cooking six-shoote, which
shows that he fired four shots and |
five. He had only flesh wound in
the arm until we exchanged shots
upon the floor He died of internal
homorrhage caused by fhe last shot.
[ was calm and collected while the
fight lasted, but when the occasion
for that ceased, | know that | became
very much eXcited-so much so that
when reporters questioned me I hard
ly knew what l was saying. This will
not seem strange when it is known
that | had not been to bed during the
thirty-siX hours previous to the fight,
and had been drinking wine eontin-
uously during that time; and the first
thing after washing the blood from
my face was to partaL<e of bottle of
wine That, taken together with the
beating which l had received ON the
head, rendered me as near irresponsi-
ole as any man well could be who is
not a pronounced lunatic. Ny wounds
were quite dangerous, especially when
erysipelas set i'll. l have been urged
by my friends to publish the above
facts in order to vindicate myself be
fore my former acquaintance and the
public saw fit to decline simply be-
cause | considered that the evidence
in the case and the verdict of the jury
did that, and [ cared nothing for the
opinions of people who are not gov
erned by facts. But, since | have been
so kindly treated wherever [ have
been during the last season, | am now
inclined to treat curiosity with more
consideration, and if you wish to pub
lish this you can do so.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Times, writing of political affairs in
this state, has this to say: There is
no doubt that the working republican
bosses, including Senators Sawyer and
Cameron, Ed Sanderson, chairman OF
the republican committee, Henry G..
| Payne, the Milwaukee postmaster. and
the other influences which enjoy and
dispense patronage, are quietly hoping
for Arthur's nomination. They will
elect Fairchild delegates, to be deliver
ed to Arthur if the president should
enter the convention with the New
York delegation and otherwise strong
~ backed. They do not avow this, but
sagacious lookers-on see abundant
signs that it is the true condition of
affairs. If Arthur should be nominal
ed, they will be able to claim that he
had their moral support, and that the
local boom for Fairchild was not work
ed so as to do him any injury.
Thus far the republican politicians
have skillfully evaded the temperance
question, without losing more than a
few thousand prohibitory votes. 1t is
probable that separate prohibitory
ticket is real help to the republicans
in this state, as it is constant guaran-
tee to the Germans that the repubIi-
cans are not prohibitory party. If
the prohibitionists should combine
with the republicans, it would alarm
and repel tens of thousands of Ger
man republican voters Capt. Fred
Pdpst, the head of a brewing company
in Milwaukee, is republican, giving
labor and money to that party, and he
is the most influential leader of the
German opinion in the state. He
would be driven out at once if the
prohibitionist should support the re
publican ticket. So separate prohibl-
ton moved with it's ten thousand or
twelve thousand votes in the safety of
the republican party. They can well
afford to lose that vote if they can
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