Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-02
CLAUDE SUBLETT.
Circumstances of His Shooting and His
Present Condition.

Major w. Miles Cary yesterday received
n letter from his partner. Mr.. p. a. Sub
lett. written from the bedside of the latter's
son, saving: Il must state entertain the
grayest fears about Claude's recovery"
Later in the day he got n telegram from
Mr.. Sublett saying: Claude resting well;
bis condition no worse
A Lexington paper gives the following
account of the accident:
1t appears that Claude Sublett and
Robert Allen had been out hunting robins
and on their return through tine Far
Grounds Sublett got into an alteration
with a colored boy named Sam. Taylor.
lIaylOr had given offence to some ladies'
who asked the young gentlemen TO drive
him off. Words passed and Taylor called
Sublett liar TAYLOR had stone III his
hand and Sublett grabbing his gun by the
barrel was in the act of striking him with
the stock when the gun went off and the
entire charge from one chamber entered
the body IL front Just above the hip-bone
and on the left side.
THE WOUND.
II cut n hole through tho upper part OF
his lett breeches-pock
Sublett removed his clothing and n
CHASTITY hole made by the shot was dis
covered
With remarkable GOODNESS ne put his
finger down in the hole to the depth of an
inch and half, and remarked that the
load had divided. Allen prevailed upon
him to lie down upon the ground and
stripping himself of his coat he placed 1t
over his friend and started for doctor.
SURGICAL ATTENTION.
The news that the young man had been
shot brought many sympathi2ers early to
the spot. Drs. Graham and White gave
him what attention they could. Then he
was placed upon cot and borne by some
| of his fellOw-students to the residence OF
| Mr.. G. NJ. Figgat, whore he IL boarding.
| The wound Is of a serious nature, but not
| regarded as especially dangerous.
The doctors probed for the shot and dis
covered that the charge had not entered
! the abdominal cavity, though single shots
may have done SO. but he does not sufer
| from pam in the abdomen. The charge
went forward and then downward. At one
and one half inch depth II divided. A
raised place on the side of his left thigh,
about two inches in diameter and SIX
inches lower than the wound, shows that
one part of the charge is lodged there. 1t
Is thought the rest is also lodged IN the
tieshy part of the thigh.
WHAT CAUSED THE DISCHARGE.
1t rs said that the discharge was due to
the stone which the negro held being
gun. This may have occurred by his
striking at Sublett with the stone while
/ held in his hand or by throwing it at him.
PERSONAL.
Claudo Sublett is the son Of Mr.. P. A.
| Sublett. of the well-known commission
firm of Sublett & Cary, of Richmond. He
is about nineteen years of age. This is his
first session at Washington and Lee. He is
a very athletic young man, and is the cap
tain of the foot ball team. The nerve
which be has displayed since he received
the wound-a most ghastlv and necessarily
painful one-has excited the wonder and
admiration of all who have seen him. Of
the large number of people at the Fair
said he was the calmest and coolest pres
emit His parents are now with him. They
arrived this morning.
Sam. TAYLOR was arrested aud put in Jail.