The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-08-25
A FATAL ARRAY.
ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER
SHOT.

oiias Coursey, and Mr. Jim Jacobs was
shot and wounded by Mr.. Walter Wildwood.
1t was the result of fight that began on
Sunday evening and was resumed Monday
morning.
Wildwood says some time ago Charlie
Jacobs, about l4years old, told his parents
that he said that his little brother had been
killed by runaway horse. Jacobs .parents
asked Wildwood about it. Wildwood denied
making any such statement, and the little
boy insisted that he did.
On Sunday last Wildwood says he met
Charlie and told him that he ought to be
ashamed to tell such tale on him and
asked him if he wasn't about ready to &C.
knowledge to his parents that he had done
wrong.
Charlie Jacobs insisted that he had not
told a lie, when Wildwood said he had.
Charlie then ran up for fight, when Mill
wood told him that he didn't care to fight
boy, and left him and went down to the
house OF the widow Carter. She was not
at home, but her daughters were.
wildwood says shortly afterwards Frank
Jacobs, brother of Charley, came down
to Mrs. Carter's with stick in his hand
and called nim. He said he went out with
him down the road, and Frank accosted
him about the woros he had with his little
brother, and said that he had come down
there to whip him. wildwood told him
that he had only one hand, and didn't care
to fight, but to sail in whenever he got
ready. At that, Millwood.says, that Frank
Jacobs struck him with the stick aud they
had fight right there. He got Jacobs
round the neck aud punched him in the
face, when Jacobs got loose and ran off.
He says he went back to Mrs. Carter S
when old man Jacobs; his two sons, Joe
Wallace, Jack Norton, Bill Landers and
some Of the Jacobs women came to the
house and abused him, and old man Jacobs
swore he would kill him. He said he went
into the house and Miss Carter closed the
door to keep old man Jacobs out, but ia
cobs said h@would stay around there unit
ne did come out and he would get him
Wildwood says that at IL clock that nigh
some OF the crowd were still around the
house and threw rock aganst4he house
and broke key to pieces, and that he cor
cluded that he had better remain all night
which he did. Next morning he sent for
his pistol and concluded he would venture
out
By that time lis cousin, Sias Coursey,
! came to see why he had not returned home
the night before and that they started on
home together, and when they got to Ja>
cobs' house. old man Jacobs came out with
stick, while Frank had hoe and Wal
lace wagon spoke. The old man ad-
vanced on Wildwood who backed and warn
ed him not to approach him, that Coursey
stepped in to keep them apart, and then
Wallace came up, also Frank aud Charlie
Jacobs and the fight began. Wildwood
says he backed until he ran up against
nc uie, and then ne fred, missing Jacobs
who still advanced and he fired twice more,
one shot, making scalp wound on Jacobs
head and the other striking him in the side
going through him. Old man Jacobs, all
though shot ran Wildwood some distance,
when he got away and went to his home
Coursey says that he had no i'll will
against any of them and got in the diff
Guilty by trying to keep Jacobs and Mills
wood apart and he says that Wallace,
Frank and Charlie Jacobs Jumped on him,
hitting him with stick, hoe aud rocks,
and one had knife. He says that he got
the wagon spoke from Joe Wallace and
threw him around between himself and
Frank Jacobs, who struck at him with a
hoe, SRA that he struck around at the same
time with the wagon spoke and hit Wal
lace with it on the side of the head, and
that Wallace was struck by the hoe handle
at the same time. which Jacobs intended
for bin. He says that Wallace fell to the
ground and that he got away from the
crowd and went on down to his home
where he joined Wildwood, and that he had
no idea that Wallace was killed, until he
was sc told afterwards.
Mr.. Wallace's widow and others Of the
Jacob family testified before the Coroner s
jury that hilwood >and Coursey both
jumped on old man Jacobs near their yard
that Mr.. Joe Wallace (son in.law of
Jacobs) had started home and had gotten
about 100 yards from the house and was
called back by Mrs. Wallace-that Mills
wood and Coursey were both fighting her
father that Wallace came back and told
them that it wasn't fair for both of them to
jump on Mr.. Jacobs, when Coursey turned
and struck Wallace with stick, knocking
him down, killing him instantly.
Mrs. Wallace and others OF the family
say Wallace was oaly interfering as a
peace>maker and had no stick in his hand
The Coroner jury had only one side Of
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