The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-26
A DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY.
One Vicksburg Editor Killed by
Another.

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One Vicksburg Editor Killed by
Another.
VIcKsBURG, Miss, March 23.-The
Vicksburg Evening Post contained
the following editorial this evening;
wILLFUL LIES.
The Vicksburg Evening Post waited for
the expression of the Commercial Herald
on the New Orleans uprising, and then
took the other side, which view meets
with universal condemnation in this city.
1t charges there was q race prejudice
and has nothing to base the fact on, save
that all the men killed happened to DO
Sicilians OF Italians. We don't believe
that good Italian citizens, of whom we
haze many in Vicksburg, so regard it
Business.
The above is from hand bill called
Business" printed at the CONNER
cial. Herald job Office. E. Harden
stein proclaims himself the manager
of Cuisines"
The publication appeared Saturday
and the Post "waited" until to-day to
answer it simply because it was too
busy to do so on Saturday.
The course Of the Post in regard to
the New Orleans lynching does not
meet universal condemnation in this
city" On the contrary, numerous cit
liens, among the best and most intel
! ligent residents of Vicksburg, have
commended the Post for it's criticisms
of the horrible lynching. Therefore,
that portion of the statement OF ''Bus
mess" is maliciously false both to the
community and to the Post.
AS for the intimation in Business
that the Post waited for the expression
of the Commercial Herald in order to
take the other side, that is willful
lie on the part of Business.
The result of the foregoing is that
Earnest Hardenstein, editor of Bust
ness, and John G. eastman, editor of
the Post,
| MET IN MORTAL COMBAT
on the principal business street here
this afternoon, with the result of Har-
denstein being killed.
1t is claimed by Mr.. Cashman's
friends that Mr.. Hardenstein, upon
reading the Post, had made threats he
would attack him on sight, and was
waiting on the streets for him for that
| purpose.
| These threats were communicated
to eastman. He started home, taking
his usual route, but when in front of
Clarke's bookstore he was assaulted
by Hardenstein, some witnesses say
| with stick, and some others with his
| fists.
eastman at once
PULLED HIS PISTOL
and fred two shots at his asssailant,
one missing him and one taking effect
in Hardenstein's heart, causing death
a few minutes later.
eastman at once surrendered and
was carried to Jail. and Hardenstein
was carried to II. H. Hendersen's
book store, where he expired.
A Picayune reporter called at the
Jail to see Mr.. eastman, but he was
with his counsel, City Attorney Pat
Henry and Major l.. w. Magruder, and
declined to be interviewed further
than stating that he had been advised
by warm friends that Hardenstein
would attack him, and was prepared
for the worst when the attack came.
No pistol was found on Harden
STEMS body, and he is believed to
have been unarmed at the time of the
encounter.
The dead man was we'll known in
newspaper circles and had been con-
nected with the city press, and for
fourteen months prior to March l was
city editor of the Evening Post, Cash
mans paper. He severed his connec-
ton with the paper with no apparent
hard feelings on either side and be-
came
IDENTIFIED WITH BUSINESS,
a weekly paper published liere, as
manager and editor. He leaves wife
and four children, having married in
this city several years ago. He is a
brother of DR.. O. A. Harlenstein, of
this city, and also Il brother of Mrs.
L. H. Dickson, of jackson, Miss.
Mr.. eastman is native of Jackson,