Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-06-13
ROBERT PACK IN
SHOOTING AFFRAY
Uses Shot Gun on Frank Sergeant
at Pounding Mill, After Which
He Escapes to the Mountains.

MIlCOll I1dTTlS, Has gone 10 lJluo-
field, where she as holds a
position as a stenographer.
Mr.. VIM. Mcclure Hurt, Cedar
Bluff, an old veteran of the CO.'S,
spent Wednesday with his
cousin, Mrs. w. B. and family
on his way, from .Tazewell sol
diers reunion. He expects to
attend the reunion at Gettys-
burg the last of the month. He
is quite minerologist and while
here picked up a gravel in front
of Mr.. Steele's with pure gold
in it, so it looked. He will have
the mineral tested, says there
is no doubt but that there is
gold here, judging from the color
. of dirt and formation of the
rocks, also diamonds. So watch
out for Pounding Mill and vicin-
ity, as we are grinding the
FOUNDER for gold.
Mrs. j. T. Altizer and Miss
Ella Rasnake were visitors to
the Tazewell dentists Monday.
Mrs. Fanny Owens and and
daughter, Miss Willie, who met
death at Cleveland Sunday morn
ing were known by some here.
Mrs. Owens parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Handy, formerly lived at
this place. We remember Mrs.
Owens as a beautiful young
woman. Her daughter was also
a beautiful and cultured young
lady. We deplore their tragic
deaths, as we'll as Mr.. Gillespie's
and others. They We're scalded
by the hot steam which escaped
from the wrecked engines.
Mrs. VIM. Osborne, the Metho-
dist preacheress. Keystone, is
holding a meeting at Maxwell,
assisted by preacher in charge,
Rev. Ed Smith and others. She
spent yesterday here with her
sister, Mrs. H. w. Christian.
The following persons went to
Cleveland Sunday to see the
wreck: DR.. Combs, N. o. Giles
pie, Frank Hurt and James
Neele. -
John B. Gillespie returned
Sunday from a ten days vacation.
Raymond Ellis, of Whitewood,
who was operated on in Blue
field for the appendicitis, men
toned having been made last
week, has recovered and return
ed with his wife and daughter
to their home. His wife is a sis
ter of Mrs. r. M. Sparks of this
town.
N. o. Gillespie left Monday
for a few weeks vacation.
Frank Hurt left Monday for a
business trip to Laurel.
Rev. Mr.. >Goss, of Abingdon,
preached a good sermon at the
Methodist church here Sunday
night.
Mrs. Ollie Hurt and children,
of Tazewell, returned to their
home here the last of the week.
The show Thursday and Fri
day nights was above the aver
age and enjoyed very much by
quite crowd.
Frank Sergeant, age DO, a
tenant on w. B. Steele's farm
about mile south of here, was
shot while hoeing corn yesterday
afternoon by Robert Pack,
eighteen. 1t is said Pack lay in
ambush and riddled the man
with shot from his knees up,
emptying both barrels from a
shot gun. After the first shot,
which riddled his hat and arm,
Sergeant ran but after going
only a few steps, looked back.
One shot is said to have entered
his lung; others his head. He
bled profusely at the mouth.
His brother-in-law, Adam Witt,
who was working in a field
nearby, heard the shots and
went to his assistance. BY this
time Sergeant had fallen, ex-
hausted, from the wounds. DIR.
Combs dressed the wounds and
says he cannot tell how badly
the man is hurt.
About two weeks ago, Pack,
Sergeant and wife had an alter
cation over some hogs. Pack
was seen around Sargeant's fire.
quently with a shot gun. He
later secured a pistol and fired
at Mrs. Sergeant. He was
brought before Magistrate
Thomas here, fined $25 anC
costs, amounting to over $50
Pack secured a rehearing before
Magistrate Geo. C. Bailey, al
Richlands, and through the in.
fiuence of Senator Royal PacE
was cleared of the pistol totine
charge, as fragrant a violation
of the law as it was. The judg
mont 0f the D;aLla,l.. M -..e.