The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-06-23
oUIGLEY DIES OF WOUNDS.
Shooting ARRAY with Negroes Result
ed Fatally.

Beaufort, June 15.-Private Frank
J. Quigley of the 18th company
coast artillery, stationed at Fort Ere
mont, on St. Helena island, died a;
II o'clock last night as a result OF
hemorrhages, caused by some of the
small shot with which he was wound
ed by one of the Potter brothers a
little more than month ago, the
shot having entered his left lung.
kilograms have been sent to his rel
atives at Auburn, n. Y, and 1t is not
known whether the body will be in
TERED in the National cemetary at
this place or sent to Auburn for bur
ial.
Private Quigley, who was about %
years old, and was thought to be i'm
proving rapidly until yesterday even
ing when the hemorrhages, which
caused his death began, becoming
more profuse until they caused his
death about midnight.
The post surgeon was aware that
some of the shot had entered the
lung, but entertained hopes Of his
recovery.
The wounds from which the soldier
died were inflicted by one Of the Pot
ter brothers, negroes, living about a
quarter of mile from the fort, at 1
O'Clock on the afternoon Of May 10,
when privates Quigley and McNally.
in company with four other soldiers,
went to the house of Will Potter,
who was suspected of having shot
from ambush four men Of the 127th
company the night before.
The soldiers had two shot guns and
a revolver with them and it is al
legged first bought some whiskey
from the house, which is said to have
been blind tiger, and then started
on a hunt for Potter to see if he knew
anything about the shooting of their
comrades.
Will Potter, the man they were af-
ter, ran upstairs, where Isaac Pot
ter is supposed to have been in hid
ing, secured a shot gun and is said
to have shot into the soldiers as they
rushed upstairs. The soldiers claim,
however, that they were shot from
the window of the second story after
they had left the house.,
The house was shot up from both
inside and out and looks as though
it had been the center of battle
field.
Both negroes escaped at the time
and Will Potter, who is saidfto have
fired the shot which caused private
Quigley'S> fatal wound, has not yet
been capture.
Isaac Potter, the younger negro,
was caught on Paris Island by Depu-
ty Sheriff NJ. o. D. White and a
newspaper man, three days after the
shooting, and said that while Will
Potter had shot Quigley and Nc
Nally while they were attacking his
house, he knew nothing of the am
buscade in which four soldiers were
wounded and which brought on the
latter trouble.
Isaac Potter declares that all the
trouble between the soldiers at Fort
Fremont and the two Potters was
brought about by the alleged discov-
Nery of illicit relations between the
elder Potter's wife and soldier
named Mack Brown. He alleges that
after Potter had given Brown cut
ting and warned him not to be found
on the Potter premises again on the
penalty of being shot, Brown had
spread the story that the Potters had
threatened to shoot the first soldier
caught off the reservation after dark,
and that the threat, which, he says
was untrue, had caused a soldier to
slash him about the head and face
with a knife a short while after
wards.
A court martial is in progress at
the present time at Fort Screven, Sa-
vannah, Ga. \