New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-22
THE CASE OF sLIGH AND ,JAGGERs.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
sir For several tho editorial tn your Issue
OF this morning, headed Sigh and Jagrcrsn Is q
Variable production 10 appear In your columns.
In the first place. tho account you give OF the shooting
scrape that occurred In Chester 6. c.. between tho
men Sigh and Jaggers is full of Misrepresentation.
Whether these be accidental shall not presume to
determine. There South Carollnans who
would not give yOu the benefit Of charitable doubt:
but as l not Of these, and as acquainted
with the parties whose names head your article and
as know the circumstances ont OF which the AFFAIR
las Dickens might have called IT, grew. ask that you
will publish this With your humorous comment ON
tho unnness Of the Of Jaggers' for the eiitor
Of a temperance paper I have nothing to do IN
fact, / agree with you In thinking IL name rather
too suggestive Of state OF lnebriety popularity de
scrbed as a "jag,' but as Mr.. Jaggers's name has
nothing do with the merits dement's of his shoot
ing scrape do not SEQ the applicability of your far
fetched facctiorsness.
From your version Of the affair stranger IN our
country would be justified in thinking that South
Carolina is o. section Of our common country to which
the light OF civilization has not yet penetrated
benighted land where everybody carries concealed
weabons where policemen arc few and drunk or of
duty when needed, and where public opinion sus-
tains the lav>brcahcr In rything, from petty
larceny to murder and cheating Mt carls Tho truth
Of the matter is that we not nearly 50 much In
imagine and a great journal might easily find as good
food for criticism and righteousness much nearer homo
The truth of tho sllghlaggers matter is this some
time since ft seems that Mr. l.. Brooks Sigh, young
lawyer OF Chester, declared himself National Re
publican. WhcreupOn Mr.. JaggeTs, tho editor OF a
temperance paper, denounced sign In an issue OF his
paper as turncUat and seller OF his political prnc
pies, which was, by the way, both uncharitablc and
cranitously Incorporate. Mr. Sigh was naturally
indignant. lie got cOwlde and a pistol and IN
nicted bodily chastiscment with the former upon Mr.
(c.,-to no IL
gethcr Mr.. Jaggcrs reiterated into his office and got
some unaccountable reason but because the carry
ing Of concealed weapons In South CAROLINA Is mis-
dcmeanOr, and police captain can give Licences per
hitting it, and promptly opened lire upon Sllgh
which Sigh promptly returned, Icing, yOn say,
very courteous gentleman. The chief of the police,
coming up at this time, committed the error OF
jud-mc7tS Of supposlng that Iaggcrs practising
81 hin, and 50 he made matters warmer by opening
On Jaggers-s4methinr, though not exactly, like Mr.
As result Of this exchange Of courtesics' tho
principals arrested, not allowed 10 reload
admring plaudts Of their fellow citizens but will be
tried for assault and battery with Intent 10 kill just as
soon as Mr. Sigh get the bullet taken out of his
Now, Mr. Editor unlike your article of this morn
Ing this has moral and il is that should be very
much more careful than are about what we say
reflect upon and profit by the familiar teaching
corning tho mote and the beam. J. X. 5.
NewNOrk, Aug s, 1901.
Tho game seems to be scarcely worth our cor.
respondents candle, since the difference between
the facts as he relates them and as they originally
appeared in The Tribune is microscopic. We are
glad to be told, however, that the gentlemen were
arrested; any person who tries to show that in
the hands Of journalists entirely great tho cow
hide is mirhtler than the pen ought to be
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