The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-01-19
TRAGEDY AT ADMISSION. ALA.
Two Men Killed IN a Desperate Fight.

I
the young man who killed w. T. Knightor
in Oxford about two years ago, had some
words with w. R. Williams, the proprietor
OF the hotel, a few days since. Evans, uu
der the influence of whisky, entered the no
tel this evening and renewed the difficulty
with Williams. No one was present at the
time. Several shots were heard by parties
from the outside. Evans was killed instant
ly from the effect of a shot through the head
lie received another wound in the left thumb
Williams was shot about two inches below
the nipple on the left side and was shot also
through the middle finger OF the left hand
He lived about half an hour, but was unable
to talk Of the difficulty. Mr.. Gamble, a
clerk in an adjoining store, and II negro
man on the outside were both wounded in
the leg by stray shots Gamble had run in
to see what was going on. 1t is thought
that Evans fred the first shot. Williams
had only been in charge of the hotel since
the LIST inst. Evans had been guest OF the
house and had moved his family away on
/ "NNN"hN VI Tue previous tTouDle.
The Admission (Aa) Hot Blast gives the
following additional particulars.
| When assistance reached Evans il was too
late to save him; he was already dead Mr..
Williams was taken to his room, and was
there attended by Drs. LeGrand, Billiard,
Wynne and Ayres and DR.. Overton, who is
stopping at the Parker house He became
unconscious almost Immediately after being
laid on the bed, and the examination made
by the physicians soon made it apparent
that the unfortunate man had but short
| while to live, He called for his wife and
seemed to know her, but was unable to talk,
and appeared to be suffering the most awful
agony. He fingered for about three quar-
tiers of an hour, and just before the last
seemed to rally and again asked for his wife
and child. The gref-stricken woman had
lett the room, overcome by her terrible woe,
pYt she agaip appeared at the bedside of her
dying husband, when he reused up and told
her he was dying Mrs. Williams was al.
most completely overcome, but choking
back her tears, she asked him il he was pre-
pared to die. The dying man answered
Yes and as he did so his heart ceased to
beat He was dead
The examination showed that NJ, vii.
hams had received wound in the left side,
about three inches below and to the left OF
the nipple, sustaining internal injury, from
which he died, The middle finger on his
LETT hand was broken by e bali,
Thy pistols show that nine cartridges
were exploded 1t seems to be pretty well
settled that Evans fired the first shot. but
whether it was this shot that took effect in
William body or not viii toyeYer remain a
mystesy. ihe suppoSitlou is that Evans
fired his first shot through his overcoat
pocket. After several shots had been fired
almost in each others faces the two men
clinched and fell, As no woands were
found op Evans other than broken thumb
and one In the back of the head Just at the
| base of the brain he could have had no mortal
wound at the time the two men cliuQhed
Williams had already cece,yed his death
wound, but in spite Of the terrible agony
he must have suffered he threw Evans and
before the latter could recover himself vii
hams had placed pistol to hiq head and
put an end 70 ths aWtul duel.
80 close did Williams place his pistol to
Evans head that the latters clothing was
set on fire by the explosion, and was smok-
ing when the crowd rushed in. The back
OF Evans head presented q mos. awful
spectacle, the WOUND having bled proiusely,
ava Ais head lay in pool Of blood. Some
one had, in the meantime, sent for Evans
wife, and the grief of the unfortunate wife
was terrible to behold
+; ii. Evans was from Marietta Ga, and
mas been IN or about Admission for three or
for years,
Evans leaves a wife and two small chill
dren. Mrs. T. d. Evans, his mother. ar.
rived in this city Wednesday on visit to
her daughter, the wife of Mayor Foster
His father, who resides at Woodstock, Ga
was telegraphed for last piah, The remains
OF Mr.. Evans will be carried to Marietta
ga, his old home, to-day, where he will be
buried.
MIR. w. r. Williams leased tho Parker
house on the first of the year, having come
here from dadsden, Ala. He leaves a wife
and one child. His mother and father live
In Blount county, Ala His remains will be
taken to Cave Springs Ga, to-day on the
same train that Mr. Evans body is to be
carried on.-ARniston Hot Blast
The remains of Mr.. p. II Evans arrived
in Marietta last Friday evening aud were
carried to his father-in-laws, Mr.. W. p.
Stephens On Saturday morning they were
carried to Mr.. Thos Evans residence, at
Trickum, near Woodstock, and on Sunday
were inferred in their final resting place.
The funeral was a very sOrrowful and pa
thetic one. A large concourse of people
were at the country graveyard to witness
the burial. Many old colored people, Who
knew the deceased from his childhood and
had been beIriended by him, we're present
and mingled their tears with those of the
bereaved relatives. 1t was sadly Impress
i've scene to see the old gray-haired father,
crying out from disconsolate heart, like
David over his sou Absolam, and would not
be eomforted. The dead young man was
his beloved and only son and was deeply
enshrined in the parental heart
In the statement made by the Admission
Hot Blast that Mr.. p II. Evans fired the
first shot with his hand in hia oyereoat
pocket, an examination Of the overcoat
shows that such was not the case as there
are no holes in either pocket Mr.. Evans
had his faults but he was no ASSASSIN to
to take advantage Of any man On the con-
trary it is believed by some that there was u
third party engaged in the shooting and
that the fatal wound in the back of the
head was made by the third party. There
was beside this CHASTITY wound in his head
a mangled thumb, three bullets holes in the
back of his oyercoat and three in his hat
If Williams turned Evans, then the back of
his head must have been next to the floor