The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-13
DOG FIGHT TRAGEDY
JIM RAMSEY WAS ACTING AS REF FREE or CONTEST.
Chfsf ef Psiiee of Enterprfse Is Ac- .rssed of shoetinG--Mnny
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 Additional details of the tragedy near Enterprise Monday afternoon in which Jim Ramsey, formerly of Nota- suiga. was killed, are told by The Elba Clipper of Tuesday.
 The Clipper says:
 Yesterday afternoon there was a great buil-dog light one and a half miles east of Enterprise.
 The dog of Carl Andrews. South Alabama champion. met q dog from Birmingham. The fight was not ter- minated. for the judge of the light Mir. Jim Ramsey. was dead before the fight ended, and the panic-stricken crowd had mostly lost interest in the dog fight in. their desire to get out or range of big. pistols.
 .sIt seems that Chief of Police J. w. Pippin was time-keeper of the light, while Mir. Jim Ramsey. a prominent livery stable man. was judge or ref- cree. A large crowd of men were pres ent, and the dogs. their owners, the judge and time-keeper were in q fighting pit built of lumber. while at some little distance froW the pit was rope extended to keep the crowd spread out SO that all might see the dogs fight. This rope was. so it is said, cut by Henry Davis. and growing out of Chief Pfppin's remonstrance over I1lH acton lnGT0 came near DeIHH trouble and several men disarmed Pip pin.
 After some little interval Mir. Pip pin's gun was restored to him, and soon afterward the shooting began. Just what provoked the first shot, who fired the first shot. and how many took part in the shooting 1t is very difficult to ascertain; indeed The Clipper finds 1t impossible to do so. The by-standers vyff xtr1 Ia fol at,lRl lsr admit that they wete busy lodging bullets and trying to find trees behind which to get. But rumor generally credits the story that Pippin was shoot ing, and Jim Ellis was shooting, and that Charles Davis was shooting. At the end of the shooting Mir. Jim Ram sey was lying dead with Aa bullet through the heart.
 Soon after the first shot was fired Mir. Henry Davis fell and all through the shooting and afterwards. it is said he begged for help and very pitifuily cried out that he was killed. So the report spread over Enterprise and came to Elba and was here credited as true until late in the night, that he was nortally wounded in the stomach. Later reports. which have all the ap- pearance offtruth. are to the effect that Henrx Davis wasn't hit at all. Some say he was possuming' to keep from being hit. while others think he was so badly frightened that the noise of the shots made him think he was shot. One report has 1t that for some time after the shooting Mir. Davis thought he was very dangerously shot.
 Tt Is said that >Pippin and Ramsey were the closest of friends. A great many people believe that 1t was not a bullet from Pippin's pistol that killed Ramsey, but from some of the others who were shooting. Others believe that Pippin shot Ramsey accidentally when shooting at Henry Davis. "A report reaches Elba that by the time the smoke had cleared away very few people were left at the scene of the fight. and that Pippin and Carl An- drews picked up the body of Mr. Ram sey and placed it on conveyance and carried it home. Mir. Pippin is. very much grieved over the death of MT. Ramsey and he and his friends are positive that he did not kill him.
 "A warrant was sworn out for Mir ; | Pippin late yesterday afternoon. and l he will be given a preliminary hearing 1 today. It is said that several other | warrants will be sworn out today. Tt Is said that the dogs were, un- | like the folks not in the least rattled 1 by the shooting, but were stilI cheer. fully engaged in trying to chew each others neaus oH when the smoke cleared away. The owners of the dogs separated them, and it Is said that tie two men who owned the Birminghar., | dog did not wait for train to leave | on but hired a team and drove ia Ozark last night.
 Every report is to the effect thai the pistol shooting did not grow o,Ii of either dog being ahead in the fsht One rumor Is to the effect that Pippiu was entirely sober. while Henry Davis who cut the rope. was Intoxicated"