The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-23
SHOT THREE TIMES
Chas. Moody, OF Bloomington, Pumps
That rIany Bullets Into John
Dugan Saturday Night.
FIGHT TOOK PLACE AT MOODY'S STORE
After the Shooting Dugan Ran to Doctor
Kemp's House Where He FeIl-Bullets
Extracted-Moody Brought to Oakland
and Is In the Hands of the Sheriff

shooting scrape in which two young
men were engaged, one of them re-
ceiving three bullets in as many por-
tions of his anatomy and the other
was badly bruised in the fight which
took place prior to or during the
shooting, which has not yet been
made evident.
The parties engaged in the fight
were Charles Moody, son of William
Moody, ESQ.,, IA prominent and we'll
to do citizen and merchant of Bloom
ington. and John Dugan, a young
man aged about % years and en-
ployed at the Hampshire mihes as
coal digger. Dugan is married and
resides in house near. the store of
Mr. p. T. Warwick, while Mr.. Moody
is single and resides with his parents.
Tuesday a representative of this
paper visited Bloomington and
through the kindness of DR.. H. NJ.
Kemp, who was called to dress Du-
gan's wounds, he was enabled to see
Dugan personally who voluntarily
made a statement concerning the af-
air. The statement made by Mr.. Du-
gan is as follows
My name is John Dugan and |
will be % years old July 18th next. |
am miner by occupation and en-
ployed AS such at the Hampshire
mines near here. l have.been resid-
ing in Bloomington about five years
and was born in New Jersey. On Sat
urday night | was at Moody's store,
having gone there to purchase pair
of shoes provided they had any that
would suit me- Mr. MoodY,l showed
me some shoes but none of them suit
ed me when his son Charley came up
and showed me a pair which he said
were worth 1925 but as they were
not the kind | wanted he would sell
them for So. offered him $1.75 when
he said that he could not take that
price for them. | said all right when
the old gentlemen (meaning Mr.. Will
lam Moody said that he was no Jew
and told me to get out and never
come into his place again; that he
had treated me kindly while | was
sick with the fever and had trusted
me by the month for goods. | told
Mr.. Moody that | did not come into
his place to raise trouble, after which
| went to the door and just as | step
bed out | said, send that son of yours
out and | can lick him At this time
Charley went to the desk and took
something from it and slipped it into
his pocket, which | took to be a pistol.
He then went into the wareroom and
| went out the store room door and
slipping along the porch fronting the
building | stopped at the door lead
| ing from the wareroom. Just then
| Charley opened the door and / jump
ed for him and grabbing him threw
him down and struck him in the face.
At some stage of the scutfle the shoot
! ing took place, but when | do not eX-
actly know 1t may have been while
| had him down or after | had been
dragged off him"
Three shots were fired by Mr..
Moody, all of them taking effect, the
most serious being the wound made
in Dugan's neck, the bullet striking
! him near the median line which
passed through and plowed its way
! to the upper edge of the right shout
| der blade where it was extracted. The
second bullet took effect in the tleshy
part of Dugan's hand, while the third
bullet embedded itself in his left leg
midway between the ankle and knee
/ After being shot Dugan ran to the
residence of Dr. Kemp and there
overcome by the loss of blood fell 10
the floor of the porch. The doctor
was hastily summoned who extracted
the bullets and had Dugan conveyed
/ to his home where he was seen Tues
/ udN anu SttIutb W DC Io
idly and was in excellent spirits
Mr.. Moody was arrested Sunday
afternoon by Sheriff Maffett and
brought to Oakland where he was
given a preliminary hearing before
Justice Gender on Monday at which
time Dugan's condition was consid,
cred very grave and in view of this
it was thought best by the Justice to
hold Moody until the extent of Du-
gan's injuries could be definitely
made known. He was therefore com
mitted to the hands of the sheriff
where he still remains but may be re.
leased tomorrow on bond which will
be furnished by his father.