The morning news., 1891-01-24
SHOT DOWN BY OUTLAWS
DARING ATTEMPT TO ROB WOOD
VILE SFoREKsEPER

Henry Fehrenkamp covere1 With Re
volvers While at His Safe, and Or
dsred to Throw Up His Hsnds-He
Seizes q Rife and Fires on bis
Assailant, and is in Turn Dsnger-
ously and Perhaps Fatally Shot.
Fehrenkemp's Clerk Shot Twice.
The Outlaws Escape.
A daring attempt at robbery, that came
near ending in a double murder. and
may result IN the death Of one man, was
made last night at Woodville, three miles
west Of the city, on the Augusta road.
Henry Fehreaksmp, keeper CT a grocery
at Woodville. was shot and may die, and
wounded.
Fehrenkamp keeps a grocery and bar
room, and soon after dark last night two
men-a white man and a negro-both well
dressed, entered his store, and stepping
up to the bar called for soda water and
afterward for cigars
One Of taem handed over the
bar q $50 bill. Fehrenkamp. not
suspecting any harm, turned TO his safe aud
stopped TO unlock it to get the change.
The moment his back was turned the
stranger whipped out q revolver and.
thrusting It at Fehrenkamps head, shouted:
Throw up your hands, you - -
Fehrenkamp was taken of his guard, and
be replied;
"All right. will"
AS he answered he sprang for
his repeating rife, which lay near
by. As be did so the robber
fired, the bali from his revolver entering
Fehrenkamp's back and striking against
the spine. The negro opened fire on
Bockelman, two shots taking effect in his
right arm, the bullets lodging against the
bone.
SHOT AT THE ROBBERS.
As the robbers shot. .Fehrenkamp returned
the fire, emptylng both barrels of his rife,
and he believes one shot took effect. Book
Gilman lodged behind some barrels out Of
the way. As Fehrenkamp. shot the robbers
ran out, but kept on shooting, in all six or
eight shots being fired. Whether
both OF the robbers were wounded Fehren-
kamp does not know, but be is confident
that one Of them was hit. After they
got out of doors they kept on firing through
the windows The shooting caused an
alarm and the robbers fed. Fehrenkamp
and Bockelman we're brought to the city,
and were carried to the office Of DIR. r. G.
AfOEpuLi, WHO uTsbSou lnclr MOuUuss
Fehrenkamp was shot near the middle Of
the back, the bullet lodging against the
spine. Dr. Norton, after probing for some
time, succeeded in removing 1t. Both bull
lets were cut out of Bockelman's arm aud
he was taken back to Woodville last night
Fehrenkamp was taken TO the home OF J. F.
Tietjen on West Broad street.
FRHRESKAMP MAY DIE.
His wound is q serious one, and there is
danger of blood poisoning, which may re-
suit fatally. Fehrenkamp says he would
recognizs the man who shot him were he
to see him again. The negro was a tall,
strongly built young gingerbread fellow.
The shooting caused great excitement In
the neighborbood where it occurred. No
one saw the robbers leave the place, but il
was unadvisable to look for them without
some clew TO work upon. The pollcs had
not been notified at midnight, and the
county officers knew nothing of the affair,
The attempted robbery is one of the bold
est known in Chatham county. Who the
outlaw and his companions are is mystery
The robbery was as daring as il il
had been planned by Rube Burrows.
That 1T was not successful is
explained only by Fehrenkamp's sei9ure of
his rife to defend himself and his clerk.
The people at Woodville think the ou tlaw
Is the same one who killed Kerns, near
Guyton, short time ago. and who has
never been captured, but beyond that every>
thing is conjecture.