The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-13
ARMY OFFICERS IN
PITCHED BATTLE
Seek to Settle a Feud
With Bullets.
FIGHT IN A RESTAURANT
COLONEL OF THE FOURTH KEN
TUCKY WOUNDED.
He Pulls the Ear of a Subordinate
and Pistols Are at Once
Brought Into
Play.
FIGHT IN A RESTAURANT
COLONEL OF THE FOURTH KEN
lucky WOUNDED.
Special Dispatch to The can.

ADMISSION, Ala, Feb. 12.-Ill-f feeling
between Colonel David G. Colson and
First Lieutenant E. D. Scott of the
Fourth Kentucky Regiment, culminat-
ed at midnight last night in a pitched
battle, in which Colonel Colson was
shot in the hip and Lieutenant Scott
and many others had narrow escapes.
The trouble opened when Colonel Col
son entered a restaurant where Lieu
tenant Scott and Lieutenant Blake
man, also of the Fourth Kentucky.
were seated at a table and deliberately
pulled Blakeman's ear. at the same
time applying vile epithet. Lieuten-
ant Scott declared he would not allow
his friend Brakeman to be insulted. At
this Colonel Colson drew a pistol and
Lieutenant Scott arose from his chair
with pistol in each hand.
There were quite a number of men
in the place, and while some say they
do not know who fired first. several
declare that Colonel Colson opened the
fight. Probably a dozen snots were
fired before the astounded onlookers
could stop the fusillade. Lieutenants
Mckay and Phelps, of the Fourth Wis
consin. on duty with the provost guard.
were in the room. Lieutenant Phelps
ran up to Lieutenant Scott and de-
manded his pistols. The latter said he
willingly relinquished them to the
proper authorities and gave them UP.
Lieutenant Mckay, in the meantime.
had ordered Colonel Colson to disarm.
but he refused to do 1t. and the pistol
was taken from him by force.
Quick as flash Colonel Colson drew
another weapon and fired. some say at
Lieutenant Scott and others at Lieuten-
ant Mckay, but without effect The
provost lieutenant then bent his efforts
toward getting Colonel Colson's pistol.
and in doing so struck Colonel Colson
twice with his fist, brulsing his face
very badly. Strangely enough Colson
was the only one wounded. An exam
ination disclosed that a bullet had en-
tered his hip and ranged around to the
rear, where 1t was located and ex-
tracted.
A friend of Colonel Colson swore oft
a warrant for Lieutenant Scott and he
was arrested to-day. Both officers have
many warm personal friends in the
regiment, and as further trouble was
feared. the entire provost guard was
ordered out. Their services were not
needed, however.
LEXINGTON, KY, Feb. 12.-Lfeuten-
ant Scott, who shot and wounded Colo
mel COlSOn at AnIlSIOn, is citizen or
Lexington. The ill-feeling that existed
between the two officers was we'll
known here.
Lieutenant Scott is nephew Of Gov
ernor Bradley, but the two have not
spoken since Bradley removed Scott's
father from the superintendency Of the
Eastern Kentucky 1unauic Asylum
over year ago. Bradley commissioned
Scott in the Fourth Kentucky. it is
understood, on account of Colson's
recommendation, but this fact. 1t is
said, did not in the least abate the
hatred cherished by the young lieu
tenant toward the Governor. Colonel
Colson is an ardent friend of Governor
Bradley, and that is thought by many
to have supplied the original cause for
the quarrel