The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-18
1 Think Southern Chivalry
a Fake.
Continued from Page One.)

Abbott got on the run sure enough.
She went to Lenoir and procured
warrants for the arrest OF five boys
who had disturbed her body-guard.
The boys had a hearing before three
magistrates who sat together on the
case. They discharged the boys be-
cause they were first assaulted, deem
ing they had sufficient provocation for
their acts. The trial was very
laughable one. the evidence rich, rare
and racy.
Several fights occurred in the COM
munity between her partisans and her
critics Feeling began to run high.
Her nearest neighbor, one j. f. Boil
inger, retired vetinarian and eX-
convict who had served two years in
the Federal prison for counterfeiting.
was the loudeSt mouthed of her par
tisans. In the village of Hudson were
to be found the true Caldwell patriots
who were likewise ready for q scrap.
One Lingle, a member of large family
of boys-a brave man-was told in
Hickory ON Saturday, September 10th,
that he had better look out for jim
Bolinger'S crowd Tomorrow They
were coming up to do all those who
said aught against Miss Abbott" Boil,
linger had struck the wrong man to
bluff so easily. Two Lingle brothers,
a sprinlxling of the Bumgarner family
NOTED fighterS-Started early Sunday
morning to an orchard plantation be-
longing to the Lingle family for a
Sunday jaunt. AS their route lay near
Bollingers home. two of the party
were armed with pistols, and it is said,
and likewise denied. that a shot gun
or two was also with the crowd. Soon
after this party left Hudson Bollin7
ger with two of his sons, and son-in7
law, Martin, passed through Hudson
in a wagon. They were drinking
heavily and yelled out as they passed
along: "You may bluff Miss Abbott
but you can't bluff us. We are her
friends" The routes of the two par
ties to the common objective point
were not the same. The Bollinger
army got there first with the most
men" and INDUCED at the Bollinger
residence in a half hours rifle practice
which is stated could have been heard
quite a distance. This noise of rifle4
firing did not deter the Lingles and the
Bumgarners. When they came in
sight OF the Bollnger home Bollinger
yelled out Here they come-G- d.
them or something of that kind, and
the army forth with opened
fire at a range of seventy
five yards The Lingles re-
Piled, each side emptied their chamb-
ers, and reloaded. While the Lin"l1
force were reloading a witness, who
was on a hill above unarmed, noted
that Bollinger rested his rifle against
porch column, took deliberate aim.
but he shot, instead of an enemy, his
own son-in-law. Martin. in the back,
The ball lodged against the spinal
column and the lower part of his
body is paralyzed, and his life de7
SPARED of. Several others are said tC
have been hit. The stories are very
conflicting, as to this. Bollinger's
army fled, leaving Martin, and the
Lingles departed for Hudson. A pre-
liminary hearing is no doubt in prog
ress at Lenoir to-day. A criminal
the war will then no doubt be a thing
of the past. We hope so, at least.
What Miss Abbott Says.
Miss Abbott was interviewed by mo
at the train in Lenoir Tuesday last,
1 asked her SIS the trouble over?"
Her reply was: ST fear it is scarcely
begun. These are rought people and
l have no idea what the end will be-"
81 asked her for her opinion of the
matter. Her manner was defiant. She
said: 'It is pity, indeed, that your
Lenoir papers could not give wo-
man the benefit of doubt. You
KNOW now ScHSdllOlldl lHoSo NOrlH6TA
papers are. Where l made the mis-
take was even allowing myself to bs
interviewed at all. but / thought, per-
haps in this manner l could attract
attention to my work. / am deeply
interested in my school. I love my
pupils, and / am assured by my con-
science that the results attained there
will live for God and good [ thinl7
these people are really great people.
III did not misreDresent them. / am
the victim of a ensation-seelxing re-
porter. If you desire to ascertain thu
facts, write the managing editor of the
Cincinnati Times-Star. / did relate
several instances of things that pecu-
liarly impressed me. These vera
treated as generalities. I am very,
very sorry for the whole occurrence.
/ think the reputed valor and chivalry
of your Southern manhood is a fake.
If your people become more chiyalrie
the further Southwark I go, I think
| will buy ticket in the other direc7
ton. l have had considerable experts
ence in home missionary work in Gin
icinnati and in Washington. Here, .