Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-01-04
WHAT JACKSON SAYS:

serve the warrants They knocked
at the door and told them to open.
Palmer came IT, the door
and Bladon told him to consider
himself under arrest.
Henry Palmer jerked back and
seemed to be trying to pull a pis-
tol. Just then the woman came
with a gun and Henry told her to
shoot. She cooked both barrels
and drew down on me when /
grabbed the gun. Bladon and the
negro were scufling near the door
when a shot was fired. It was just
outside the door and Bladon was
shot. Henry Palmer shot him. I
don't know what it was he shot
him with. Did not see but the
one shot gun there, that was the
one I took from the woman. That
gun is still loaded and was not
fired. I think if Bladon is shot
with shot, it must have been a
pistol loaded with shot. He did
not have a gun. I did not examine
to see If the negro had pistol.
Bladon was shot and / carried him
to town to see a doctor.
CARRIE PALMER's TALE:
Carrie Palmer is an intelligent
looking mulatto woman, the wife
Of the dead man. She told the
story of the killing as follows:
The three men, Bladon, Jackson
and Pearson, came to the door and
my little brother opened it. Tho
men came in and two of them
grabbed Henry and told him to
consider himself under arrest The
other man grabbed tho gun lying
on the bed.
The men got to scufaing and
just after they 60: out of the door
a shot was fired. This is the shot
that struck Bladon. Bladon fired
then and Henry was trying to get
away from him. The two men had
hold of him and when they got
outside the yard Henry was about
to twist himself away when Bladon
fired again and killed Henry
dead.
She said that her husband had
no weapon of any kind Oh the
place except the shot gun, that
be never had q pistol there in two
years.
She says that there were two
men besides the constables stand
ing outside the door, and one of
them had shot gun.
In this she Is corroborated by
Mary Hail, her mother, who says
she saw man outside the door
with gun just about the time
Bladon was shot; that the man
had the gun up in front of him
when she saw him
Jackson says there were men
outside the house, but he did not
know them, Did not see any gun
except the one he brought away.
BLADoN's CONDITION.
Bladon was not in a condition
to talk, but says the negro shot
him.
His wounds were attended to by
DR.. L. J. Blake, who says that it
is load of small shot, which en-
tered slightly from the rear, in the
soft part of the small of the back.
Several of the shots lodged in the
muscles, and some entered the
stomach. 1t is impossible to tell
the extent of the wound, but be
considers it dangerous,
SOME THEORIES.
1t is evident that Bladon was
shot just outside the door. While
Jackson says Palmer was trying
to draw a pistol he did not see a
pistol on his person or in his
hands. He did not have gun and
no pistol was seen about him by
anybody. Bladon was shot in the
rear with a shot gun.
These facts seem to give
strength to the woman's statement
about the two men standing out
side while the raiding party went
in and it is the belief of many
who heard the story, that an out
slider, who has not yet figured
fred the shot that hit Bladon.
Others think that the negro
fred the load of shot from q pistol.