Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-05-16
r. S. Hmory Tells His Side of
Trouble Which Let to shooting

tOufllFs WHO Ndb oHOt
wounded several months ago by his
cousin. l.. b. Amory, claims that
he has been grossly misrepresented
in accounts of the shooting and OF
the family troubles preceding II. For
q long time after he was shot Mr..
Amory lay at the point of death. and
a report that he was dead was given
TO the newspapers. He has just re-
covered sufficiently to leave home.
The following was brought 10 the
Daily Press by Mr.. Amory with the
request that 1t be published In order
that his friends and the public might
know his side of the trouble which
led to the shooting:
~ wish to say to the public that
when | regained consciousness from
being shot on March End, | learned
that the man who shot me had said
that l wasn't gentleman and II ne
had killed me, | wouldn't have had
friends enough to bury me. II so
much annoyed my wife, she wrote a
reply to his assertions and was GO
ing TO have It published. but when |
came to myself | advised her not to,
nj present. | thought that as he IVES
a prisoner. and in the Common
weath's Attorneys charge. we had
better let our side remain quiet. UNI
iii we saw whether he got punished
by law or not, before we have much
tosay. We now learn that the man
who shot me says that he shot me to
kill me and will do the same thing
under the same circumstances. He
L.. nd KnnrU
he shot me with a double-barrel gun
in the back of my head. at distance
of about twenty yards. when was
going from him in peace. as | thought.
So the same circumstances, means he
will shoot me in my back the first
sly chance he gets. So my chances
are small TO live. with such a cold
blooded murderer at liberty TO get
up behind me.
"In consideration of the above.
take up my pen at time when | am
not able TO dictate or write, that be-
fore | die | may say to my friends
that | had rather be myself tffan 10
be the man who shot me. am right,
and that is a joy in my heart. He
and | know. that he is to l'ame for
tNtIN tlOuDit 4AN aHN
from boyhood to the present. | am
prepared to say that when he kills
me, | will safely go home TO Goa
in peace, and there will be no more
he can do to me. | wish To say,
was raised by q sainted mother VINO
taught me to love and trust In God
for all things. and when | was seven
teen years old | gave my heart 10
God and his service and joined the
Methodist church. The brethren did
all they could in every respect TO
make a man of me- l was honOred
with every position of trust, which
I filed with love and promp,ness-
believed when 1 was twenty one years
old. | was a christian gentleman l
then married the girl loved and at
tempted 10 live a creditable kfe-
did ali | could to advise my wife in
the best ways | knew, but we failed
TO agree. She listened to our ene-
mics and not to her husband, which
led to our ruin.
left the church, because | feared
| would be considered hypocrite, as
| could not live satisfactorily at
home. | said very little to. any one
about our family troubles. believing
II more gentlemanly to remain quiet
So only one side was heard. / stood
hardships untold to raise my four
children, and worked very hard. and
many times beyond my physical abil-
ity, to secure my family COMFORT
able home, educate my daughter anc
put each Of my boys in business. Then
as my burdens to my family became ,
less, ! became less willing to take
hardships imposed, as though, on me
BY my wife. which each year grew
worse. Her enemies caused most OF
our family trouble. We had people
living near us. who In Eternity will
be shown to blame for many OF our
home troubles, by my wife not know
ing her friends. I finally lett my
home. which was harder to do THAN
many might suppose. but believed II
lest for both nv wife and myself
For IL is better to dwell on a corner
of house-top in quictncss and /
peace. than In a broad house with
brawling womsn
Il left my wife and she. God and 1
I, know why. and | thought We were !
enough 20 know I gave her my home +,
and everything | had. except my bad
name. | did not leave my children
nor did allow them 10 leave their !
mother. I spent every dollar 1 made {
to keep them With her. I conducted
myself in as christian-like manner as
| could. regarding the above.
When was granted legal sepa-
ration from her believe she wsv
better satisfied than she was when l.
was with her. however. she didn't
seem to lose any flesh over The grief
of H. II was then thought by her
that I would marry. the woman that
she claimed I would. " ever in nv b
power. I failed 20 do this. so that
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