Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-04
BALD ON moONsHINERs.
a yirginian Fatally wounded i'm the
Frncas.
Yn.cial tclerran % the pispatch.l

Especial telegram 10 the Dispatcnl
RALEIGH. n. G., May g. BriseOe b. Boul-
din, OF Charlotte county, Va, who is
deputy collector Of internal revenue in this
district. under S. p. Kirkpatrick, in COM
pany With Deputy. Collector Vandeford and
Deputy Marshal A. II. Temple. to-day went
in search Of some Illicit 6istilleries in John
ston county, near WAITS Mills, seventeen
miles south Of Raleigh. They found one
still aud left Bouldin there to arrest the
owner, a moOnsbiner, when the latter re-
turned from dinner. He chose to stay, as he
said be felt tired. Vanderford and Temple
went on a mile further to another distilery
and destroyed it, at the same time enectng
the Capture Of two mOonshiners. Whlie
they were thus engaged they heard gun
shot, followed BY pist0l~sh0t then another
gunshot followed by three pistol.shots. AS
soon as they heard these they hurried to the
place where they had left Bouldm. They
found him on The ground propped up against
a log. Vanderiord said, "Are you shotY"
Bouldin said; al am. / downed him. but
he got me-"
1t was found that Bouldin was shot in
the chest and stomach. His right hand was
shot into strips. BOuldin said that when the
moonshiner came up be arrested the latter
The man submitted. BOuldin then went to
work 10 demolish the still. Suddenly, az
Bouldin took his eye OF the moonshiner'
the latter stepped TO one side, and seiziOg bis
gun shot at him, but missed his aim. Boul-
din then, at ten yOrds distance, shot at the
moonshiner with revolver, but also missed.
Then the mOOushiner lired the second barrel
OF shotgun. aud load Of large shot struck
BOuldin in the body from the throat to The
hips, making 3 terrible wound. At the mo-
ment OF this shot Bouldn was drawing
fresh revolver from bis breast, and many OF
the large shot struck this hand. After this
dreadful wound BOuldin, who Is brave
man, fired twice again, and one builet
struck The mOOnsniner, knocking him down.
He either got away or was helped oil.
Bouldn said that Yanderiofd and Temple
would find him under the slope oil hill, nut
he could not be found. NsuderioTd went
10 the road for carriage. Bouidil was placed
in this carriage and taken 10 the house OF
Or. McCullers, nine miles from Raleigh.
Vanderford left him there and hurried on
TO Raleigh Tonight. He got a physician
here, and, In company with the latter ana
with Observation-Disclosures Marlborough, re-
turned 10 the place whore Bouldiu vas lett
Vanderford stated that 1t il considered that
Bouldin's injuries are fatal. he is son OF
Judge Bouldiu, OF Virginia. Nanderf0rd
declines to give the name OF the man who
shot Bouldn, or OF any of the parties con-
nccted with either dstillery. II is in
a settlement where family named Psrtu
has many members, among whom was the
famous wife-murderer, Scott PartiE. There
il intense indignation here tonight at the
news Of this affair. 1t is said that there are
many moonshlners near Raleigh and that
they are very daring. VanderiOrd eays that
after he LETT the place where Bouldn was
shot to get the carriage he saw two NOON
sinners ri house each armed with gun.
They retired into the house at his approach
and he expected each moment 10 be shot,
but they did not modest him. Bouldin's wife
and child are IN this city.