The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-01-30

Excitement.
What proved to be very serious
difficulty occurred in the store of Jul
Illus T, Miller, near the Ocala High
School Monday afternoon.
It seems as If the boys of Mr.. Red
ding and Mr.. Miller attend the same
school. and some days ago got into a
boy-fght. the Miller boy getting the
best of the combat.
This angered Mr.. Redding, and 1T
seems that he made up his mind to
take the matter up with Mr.. Miller,
and with this determination in his
nind entered his store late Monday
afternoon, accompanied by his broth
er-in-law, Mr.. Hayward Hale. Mr..
BEDDING was armed with a Winches-
ter rife, and as he entered the store
he asked Mr.. Miller If he was the pro-
prietor of the store, and If his name
was Miller. On getting an affirma-
tive reply he is said to have struck
lff. Miller over the head with the bar
reaed end of the rife. INJECTING very
serious and ugly wound.
Mr.. Miller is quite strong man,
and seized the rife, and scuffle en-
sued, during which Miller's young
scn, boy about ten or twelve years
q age, procured a pistol, and in en-
-&anvoring to 90 to the rescue of his
fnkher was stopped by Hale, and he
spened fire on Hale. infieting very
serious wound in his stomach.
The combatants were then separat
ed by Mr. Waldo Martin, who lives
near the scene of the tragedy.
Mr.. Hale was taken to the hospital,
where his wound was dressed by one
of the hospital physicians.
Mr.. Miller was taken to his home,
and a physician was summoned to
look after his wounds.
Mr.. Redding was wounded in the
melee also, but the wound he received
is not at all dangerous.
Mr.. Miller's skull is fractured, and
ii is feared that his wounds are quite
serious.
Mr.. Hale was in such a serious con-
dition that Judge Smith was summon
ed to take his post norton deposit
tion late in the afternoon, and it was
not expected that he could possibly
live through the night.
Mr.. Redding was placed under ar
rest, but it is not known what will
be done with the young lad who did
the shooting
The occurrence caused considera-
BILE excitement and all sorts of ru-
more were af1oat, but the details as
above narrated are about as near the
facts as we could gather.
who was so badly wounded in the
tragic affair of Monday afternoon, was
still lowering between life and death
The little boy, who did the shooting
a lad about ten years of age-was
surrendered to the authorities by his
uncle, Mr. c. Y Miller, who promptly
furnished bond for his appearance at
court should he ever be needed.
The little fellow says that when
he went into his fathers store he saw
his father struggling with two stall
his face. He thought that they were
robbers trying to kill him in order to
rob him, so he hurried to his home,
not far away, as fast as his feet
could carry him, seized pistol and
rushed back to his fathers rescue and
shot the first man that he came to
and would have shot the other if he
had not been seized and the pistol
taken away from him. He said that
he thought that is what one ought to
do with armed robbers.
Mr.. Miller, who was struck over the
head with Winchester rife, had his
skull only slightly fractured and was
doing nicely yesterday.
1t appears that the difficulty start.
ed about some goats the Miller boy
owns. He drives the goats to a wag.
on, and on several occasions he claims
that he had the goats tied with long
ropes so that they could feed on the
lawn, and that the Redding boys had |
cut the ropes and permitted them to |
escape. Mr.. Miller warned the boys |
not to repeat the performance, and
when he did so he seized one of them |
and placed him across his knees and |
gave him a very gentle spanking. |
This angered Mr.. Redding, and the
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