The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-26

had arrested several men, who submitted
out of friendship for him, and had AFTER
ward been acquitted by jury OF their fell
low citizens, who realized that the natural
| right OF the Tennessee mountaineer to take
| life in free fight must not be abrogated.
But one day a man named Green killed
| one of his neighbors and sent word to Will
kins that any body who tried TO arrest him
would get into trouble. Anybody, of course.
| meant Wilkins but Wilkins armed himself
and set out. He got his man after an ex-
change Of bullets, but before he had time to
read the warrant the man was dead. This
stirred up the whole Green family, especi-
| ally brother-in-law named Carr, who had
''set great store by young Green, and did
not propose TO see his death go unavenged
One day, as Wilkins was tinkering about
his room in q little 2-story frame house with
a yard around it, he happened to look out
Of the window. He saw Carr leaning
against the picket fence around the house.
his elbows resting upon the top OF il, and
his hands holding gun, along the barrel OF
which his eye was carefully sighting for
sure shot at some vital part of wilkins
body. Wilkins jumped away from the win
dow, picked up his pistol, and reappeared
and fired so suddenly that Carr had no time
to re urn the compliment. Carr jumped on
his horse, unhurt.
81 sent word to him them" said Mr. Will
kins, in a deprecatory tone, that he mustn't
come around my house wavln' his gun 80
keerless. But he didn't pay no attention."
Carr and Wilkins passed each other sew
eral times after this without anything
happening. and Wilkins had begun to think
that Carr was getting over his anger. But
Wilkins knew the mountain methods too
well to let his thinking put him of his guard.
So one summer afternoon, when he was
setting out to walk to his fathers house,
half a mile up the road, he remembered
that he had forgotten his pistol, and turned
back for it. In those regions men have
different places for carrying their pistols.
Wilkins always carried his uuder his vest,
stuck into the band OF his trousers just over
his stomach. He then took up his walk,
prepared for any fortune.
A few hundred yards up the road he met
Carr coming along on horseback. Carr
passed him without seeming to see him, and
Wilkins turned and watched the slow>mov-
| ing horse until it had carried the man out
of sight around a end in the road. Then
| he went on. He had not gone far before he
| heard the chatter of hoofs behind him. He
| did not think much of this, but as the sound
| began to get very near he turned to see. 1t
was Carr coming at full tilt, with his hat
| drawn down over his eyes, the bride held
10 his left hand, while his right hand was
! working at the handle Of a long, old-fash-
toned revolver, which had got caught
| somehow or other in the belt.
| Wilkins jerked up his vest and drew his
revolver in an instant. He aimed it when
| Carr, with his revolver loose and coming to
| an aim, was not more than 100 fee away.
| Wilkins aimed for his head and fired. The
| shot struck Carr, for he reeled little and
| clutched the galoping horse tighter be-
| tween his knees. Damn you, you've killed
| me-" he said He dragged the revolver,
| which had dropped little, up to an aim
with both hands, as though it weighed
hundred pounds. As he fred be plunged
| forward ard fell to the road face down.
| ward, while the horse wheeled and dashed
away His shot cut the brim of Wilkins
| broad hat.
Wilkins went up to him and saw that he
was dead. shot exactly through the heart.
"He hated me so bad" said Wilkins, "that
| he shot. as We might saw, after he was dead. y
| Wilkins knew that the Cars and the
Greens would be after him. and kept sharp
| lockout. A few days afterward he went
into Fugit's grocery. He was still holding
| TO the door when he glanced around and
| saw Greeues father and two brothers end
| Carr's brother and uncle standing around
the store in such q wav that If he had
walked a foot further they could have
| closed the door and thus could have had
him in a trap. Wilkins drew his revolver
| and jumped back, waving it before him.
He backed down the road for at least 100
yards before he turned to walk away.
The Cars and the Greens kept their
hands thrust in the top pockets of their
trou. ers and said nothing, and made no
movement.
but know an ambush when l see one, u
said Mr.. Wilkins. Ppm a peaceable man.
left the country an came over here. An
1 amt been back. an, young maa, don't
know about goin'."