The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-11-21
SENSATIONAL WAS
. SHOOTING SATURDAY
At ANDERSON STORE
HENRY CoRCORAN FIRES AT
JOHN BYRD DANGEROUSLY
WOUNDlNG HIM.
AN ATTACK WAS NOT EXPECTED
Former Trouble Between the Parties
Supposed to Have Been the Rea-
son for the Attempt on Byrd's
Life.

Life.
A sensational shooting in which
John Byrd came very near losing his
life took place at Anderson's grocery
Saturday afternoon between 4 and 5
o'clock Henry Coropran, an en-
ploye and foreman at the cotton |
mills, aged about sixty-five years,
was the handler of the weapon
Corcoran walked into the store
situated on Main near Fourteenth,
and there found Byrd sitting on a
box near the stove talking to a
friend. He walked back through the
store and got drink of water at the
rear. On his return he stopped
squarely in front of Byrd, according
to witnesses, and said, II guess this
is about the best time we will ever
have to settle this matter" or words
similar, and drawing 80 calibre
Richardson & Harrington pistol open
ed fire, and continued until the
weapon was empty. Byrd arose as
quickly as possible and undertook to
get out of the way of his assailant
and in doing so knocked down a
stove that was only few feet to
the left of where he was sitting.
In passing back toward the door In
! the rear he laid his left hand on the
corner of a desk and left a bloody
spot. Continuing around the corner
of the desk he went to the door in
the rear of the building and went out
there, the last shot from Corcorans
pistol being fred as he went through
the door. Mr.. Anderson started
around the counter toward the man
who was welding the pistol but 1t
was all over before he could get to
him.
The wounded man went down a
fight of steps at the rear OF the
store and then ran the full length OF
the store back to the street in from
and turned South of Main street,run
! ming fifty or sixty feet before he fell
Friends picked him up and examined
his wounds. He was struck foul
times, and there is some difference
= of Opinion as to the number of shots
4 that were fired, but no balls wer'
! found in the walls of the store. TW'
y balls struck Byrd in the right breas
near the nipple, one in the left hand
= and one in the right hip. He wa
} carried to his home On Mckay street
and a few minutes later taken to tn
" Kings Daughters hospital, where n
was cared for by the hospital phys
clans, and it is now thought he wi
recover.
q The man who did the shootin
"a walked out of the store with the pi
We toll in his hand and went to the HON
of his borther-in-law, Jake Stages,
er short distance north on Main stree
OF and told what he had done, and h
as and Mr.. Stages started to town
IN find the officers Officers had bee
ne notified by phone and they were mi
es about Tenth street. He was take
lid to the city hall where he was locke
lily nj.
ee Two or three months ago Byl
ne and Corcoran had fight on Sunds
nd afternoon in which the latter WI
badly worsted and at the prelimina
ad trial Byrd was bound over to q
lid grand jury under serious chare
1t was asserted by witnesses at t
lev time of the trial that perhaps DO
are parties were drinking. Corcors
,se was confined at his home some tir
lad recovering from the injuries.
lev During the past several days mes
sod tiations were under consideration
md compromise of the charges. agar
ity Byrd whereby he might submit to
ant fine in the justices court, and frien
ike and relatives who had been intere
ed in the affair were much dis'
-, poited when announcement
49, made that the compromise moveme
r,s had failed.
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