The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-07
SAM SMALL SHOT In THE LEG
The Sensational Divine's Temperance
Meeting Broken Up by Young Toughs.
Returning TO His Hotel at Hazleton, Some One
with aNoiseless Gun Fired at Him through
the Window, Making Slight Wound.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
VINCENNEs, Ind. Sept GA sensation
was created here this morning by the re-
port that Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist,
was shot. last night. at Hazleton. Ind, fif-
teen miles south of this city, where he was
to address q Prohibition meeting. Small b as
been stumping the State the past
two weeks under tho auspices of
the Prohibition State central com.
mittee. He filled an appointment
at HazIeton yesterday afternoon and even.
ing. The audience last night was q very
respectable one. but was very much dis
turbed by q gang of hoodlums. mostly boys
ranging from ten to twenty years. The
ho0dlums seemed to take offense at Smaips
efforts and tried in every way to distur b
his flow of oratory. After he had
spent and hour in an endeavor
to entertain his audience he gave mp in
disgust and announced that he could pro-
speak intelligIbly while he was being con-
stantly interrupted. Cries for Harrison
and Cleveland were frequently heard.
There was loud talk, Kisses and shouts of
all kinds. and when Small made
yells of the hoodlums were the
therefore dispersed and Small went to his
room at the Wheeler House. As he was
stingin0 sensation In his leg. and upon ex-
animation found he had been shot at
through the window. The wound was
nothing more than slight abrasion of the
flesh but Small picked up the the ball as
carried it away with him as
trophy of his experience in
Gibson county. This morning Rev. Small
went to Boonville. Ind, to continue his
work, and his friends say he is very indig-
naDt at bis treatment, and many OF the
Prohibitionists are grossly exaKgerating
the affair.
The report during the day was current
that Small had been asssssinstsd. The
facts are simply that he was ridiculed
and guyed dissracefully, shot at
with Flobert rife operated in tho hands
of young tough of hoodlum propensitIes;
but he was not prosecuted for his politics
or principles. for there was no such feeling
in 1t. The good citizens of Hazleton de-
plore the affair, and every effort will be
made to capture and prosecute the Offend
ers. committee of citizens has been ap-
pointed for that purpose. although they
declare the affair has been grossly
misrepresented by Small and his friends
forpolitical effect Mr.. SmalPs version of
the affair is substantially as follows:
After adjourned mNeting / went to my
room at the hotel and was about 10 retire
and had partially disrot cd when heard q
noise outside of my window. which WAS
> open. / looked out bus could not see
any one. When / turned my back to the
window / felt something strike me on the
leg. thought it was O rock that had been
hurlod at me through the open window,
and feeling sure l was being pursued by
the rutfians who tried to break up my
meeting L opened MY travelling bag. secured
my revolver and went to the window.
when | saw two or three fellows skulking
around the corner of a shed across the
street pulled my revolver, and called to
them that they had better not try that
again. The fellows disappeared in the
darkness. My companion then came in
from an adjoining room, and wanted TO
know what the disturbance was about
and / told him that some hoodlums
were throwing rocks through the windows.
but upon Investigating further discovered
| had been shot at, and found the bullet on
the floor. j am not injured in the least but
q rutfian who will throw q rock or use q
noisaless weapon for the purpose Of injury
will stab an adversary in the back with .
dirk. i am not used TO such treatment"