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Show Hi- Telegraph.; A Tiiisli AITnir. Albany, Ga., 5. The following are the particulars of a fatal affray which occurred at law,-on. ( la., on the L'nd. resulting in the death of two men and the wounding of lady. A man named H. A. ltusse!!, while intoxicated, asked the doorkeeper of a side show the price of admission and passed hi laniily in. llussell asked the doorkeeper door-keeper "How many? ' Who replied, '"Xine." Bussed answered there were but four. The doorkeeper said he would call the family back to prove that Bussell wa? mistakeu. The latter got angry and struck the doorkeeper, neaily knock'ng him down, and then drew a pistol and threatened to blow the doorkeeper's brains out. The lat ter said he meant no offence. Russell, still threatening, coeked his pistol, and the doorkeeper rau inside the canvass. Col. Ames, being near, approached and remarked to llussell that this was not a place to get up a difficulty, llussell llus-sell responded "I will kill you too," aud shot at Col. Ames. Another circus man remonstrated with Bussell, when two brothers, named Kelly, known as desperate characters, approached and commenced firing. Ames was shot twice while endeavoring to escape. A spectator, named Oxford, who was holding a child in his arms, was instantly in-stantly killed, and the child was taken from, under his dead LoJy. A lady was wounded inside the canvass. Col. Ames died on the afternoon of the 3rd. His body was escorted to Macon by the City Council of Dawson. The meti have been removed to Cuthbert, Ca., and confined. |