Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
ONE KENTUCKY FEUD.
Continued from First Paqe.
the New Jersey avenue station and surren-
dered to the local police authorities.
THE RESULT IN DOUBT


Messrs. Carlisle, Stone and other former
colleagues of the ex-Congressman saw him
soon after he was shot. How badly he was
hurt, the doctors told them, it was impossl-
BILE to say, as they were unable to tell what
direction the ball had taken. 1t was
thought the eve might have been affected by
the bullet striking the optic nerve, but this
was disproved when Mr.. Taulbee, at the
suggestion of Congressman Stone, put his
hand over his uninjured eve, and the sight
OF the other one was found to be perfect.
The stricken man rested in the committee
room half an hour before he was removed to
his home He was taken out on lounge
and placed in carriage, several doctors
and ex-Representative Thompson accom-
panying him. Subsequently he was taken
to Providence Hospital. The latest report
is to the effect that he is resting quietly and
that there is prospect that ne may re-
cover, though the physicians say 1t is very
serious case.
The bullet entered just below and little
to the right of the left eye. 1t is believed
that it then went around the side of the face
and lodged behind the right ear. No
paralysis has set in, SO that there is good
reason to believe that neither the spinal
column nor brain has been affected.
Friends of the injured man say that the
wound may be a facial one, which will not
have serious result.
KINCAIp's STORY.
Kiucaid says that Taulbee had been
bounding him for more than year past,
and has several times insulted him. He cir
culated stories that he was a coward and
afraid to meet him (Taulbee). These re-
ports, in bis nervous state, so overweight
him that he hardly knew what he was doing.
He also understood that Taulbee had threat
ened him with violence. To-day he assaulted
him and pulled his nose and ears, and this
was more than he could endure.
1t was about two years ago that the
Byroric tendencies of Mr.. Taulbee led him
into a performance which resulted in the
tragedy of to-day. A daughter of one of
Mr.. Taulbee's old Pensioners, reduced to
poverty, applied to him for position in the
department. Backed by Mr. Carlisle it was
easy for the brilliant young Kentuckian to
secure the Office for his fair constituent. In
the Office he was attentive to her, and she, as
a matter of course, received him kindly.
He pressed his suit beyond the bounds Ken
tucky chivalry should have dictated, and,
under fear of losing her position, the young
lady was more complaisant than wise.
SOMETHING OF A DUDE.
Mr.. Kincaid is of a good old blue grass
family. He has held prominent public po-
sitions and is a social favorite. He pub
lished the story regretfully, and, at the
same time. offered Mr.. Taulbee all the space
he wanted for explanation. The Congress
man not being able to explain. and having
more scandals than one ringing around his
ears, sought satisfaction in gratuitous abuse
of Kincaid. The latter is a very slight
man physically, modest, peaceful, gentle
man priding himself on his good family and
his circumspect conduct. He did every
thing he could to avoid a quarrel.
He was not an admirer of the code of
honor or the broader field of adjustment
adopted by the Hatfelds and McCoys. He
has been known as something of "dude"
among the fraternity of the ''row," but al
ways as gentleman of discretion and of
culture. He had been insulted constantly
for two years by the sarcastic and aggressive
eI-clergyman. He had avoided serious
trouble by bv every possible means, even to
the pcint of being ashamed of his apparent
cowardice.
When Taulbee passed out of Congress
with the demise Of the Democratic
party as governing power, Kin
caid congratulated himself that his en-
emy would disappear. But Taulbee staid,
some say on account of business and
been the evil spirit of his life. At any rate
he remained. and did not cease to annoy
Kincaid.
A NATURAL SEQUENCE.
The accidental meetings of the two men
have been frequent during the last few days
and the glances and remarks, always e1as-
perating, eliminated to-day in an assault by
Taulbee on Kincaid. Feeling that the
crisis had arrived that his life was in ieon
ardy. Kincaid found means to arm himself
just when he got the pistol is not known.
After his first encounter with Taulbee he
sent in his card to Congressman Caruth and
Painter, of his State, but whether one of
these gentlemen lent the fatal weapon is not
established.
The affair has created a great sensation
here. 1t is the first shooting affair by per-
sons other than obscure employees that has
ever occurred in the Capitol building. As
saults have been frequent, but so near a
murder at the point of the pistol had not
taken place before. LIGHTNER.