The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08
SHERIFF ROBE.
His Statement of the Affair at Harrison
burg.

His statement of the Affair at Harrison.
burg.
Times Democrat.
Ga Friday, DR.. Miles, house surgeon
of the Charity Hospital, performed q
most delicate operation on MI. w. E.
Robb, sheriff of Catahoula parish, who
is a patient at the hospital suffering |
from the effects of three gunshot wounds. !
DR.. Miles was ably assisted in the ope- |
ration by DIR. Bloom, the assistant house
surgeon.
The operation consisted in the liga-
ting of the femoral artery of the lower
part OF the right thigh. After careful
examination, the surgeons discovered
that the walls of the femorat artery had |
been bruised by one of the shots, aud
that, Ia medical pariance, an aneurism |
had formed. After a shor, time the
surgeons succeeded in ligatirg The ar
terry, and expressed themselves as satis-
fed with The result.
Mr.. Rcbb was 10 condition to be in-
terviewed yesterday for the first time
since his arrival in this city, and was
approached by q Times Democrat res
porter, to whom he gave the following
statement of the circumstances under
| which he received his wounds:
In 1886 an act was passed by the
State Legislature relative to the accep-
lance of parish paper for taxes. When
Mr.. Robb was Installed in office he
found this act, and expressed his deter
minatiou to enforce it. It happened
that large quantity of this paper way
held by Mr.. VIM. II. Hollomap, en-.
gagged in the warehouse business in
Harrisonburg. Upon hearing of Robb's
resolve, Hollomon visited him and sta
ted that large quantity of parish paper
was held by him. Finding that all he
could say would not move 2Obb, he
left the Office, aud nothing more was
thought OF the affair.
| On July 80 MIR. Robb said he was
walking down to the ievee to get from
a steamboat a letter, which bad been
forwarded by fellow sheriff, request
Ing him TO apprehend a negro charged
with assaulting woman. He had
hardly left the courthouse and was but
about $50 feet from the building, and
walking with his head bent down,
when he heard noise ahead of him,
and raising his head saw Holloman
standing in the door of the warehouse
with shotgun leveled at him. Robb
cried out 'sMy God, Mr.. Holloman,
you are not going TO murder me ?"
Without warning two brothers of HOl-
ti0man fired and the shots struck RObb
In the legs. The wounded man fell and
Vim. III. Hollomon advanced and fred
into tho PROSTATE man.
Robb was quickly attended by friends
aud conveyed to his home.
The Holl0mOn brothers escaped for
the time, but were subsequently ares
ted, and when arraigned We're remain
ded until such time as Mr.. Robb
could attend court, as his condition al
tho time of the arraignment was such
that he could not 60 out.
His friends finding that he was not
becoming convalescent, thought II ad-
visable to bring him to this city. Ac.
bordfngly, Mr.. Rohb, accompanied by
his uncle, Judge Marshall, of Florida
and Mr.. Hugh Watson, editor of the
Trinity Herald, started for New Orleans
and arrived on the steamboat Blanks
Cornwell, on Tuesday last. HIS condi-
, ton was such that he had 10 be carried
i TO the hospital on streicher, as he
! could not bear the least jolting. At the
, time of the shooting Mr.. Robb's cloth.
ing was completely riddled, and from
the waist down TWENTY-FIVE bullet holes
we're found. The gentleman was
wounded three times, but owing to the
proximity at which the shots were fired
tho bullets made, in some cases, two
holes. The wounded mans condition
is very favorable.