Show ANOTHER HORRID MURDER it seems that crime in thi this thib s city is t it the increase ant and that there ls is ia 19 no elid end aa as yet to the bedding of blood mood u after the murder of pike on lith dinst there was no fatal assault made upon any one within the limits of the corporation so far as our knowledg knowledge e extends till saturday evening last when between the hours of nine and ten a company of five or six men wen went to the house bouse of mr eddy in the rear of martins martinis meat market elst eist temple street where mr charles 11 drown brown ail all and josiah arnold with their wires wives who reside reide some twelve t elve eive miles south of the cit olt city olty had put up to spend the night and the lh coming sabbath and called for mr drown to come outdoors out ont doors boora suspecting as we are informed that all sill might not be right from rome dome threats that had been previously made drown rown town did not choose to obey the call an agi asi sault was then made upon the house by the crowd and some fifteen or twenty shots gire fire into the front room through the door and w it 11 dow one of the balls passing through th til body of drown inflicting r a mortal wound of which he died next day mr arnold WAS ats als shot through b one thigh tb gh but fortunately it is only a flesh wound there were several other persons in an adjoining room at the time including M ma 9 drown urs mra arnold and ami MC birr eddy who escaped unhurt anold having a pistol upon his person persons fired into the crowd when one of them exclaimed let ua us go I 1 am shot whereupon they immediately fled without detection the whole having been dou don in a few seconds so far for as we e have deen oben informed no arrest have as yet been inde mide m ide but we understand that drown was visited by judge sinclair immediately after the fatal affray and that an affidavit was made by the dying man in which certain facts are aile alle alleged teat tiit that will in all probability lead to the detection 1 I e tec tion and arrest of those who thus commit ted one of the tbs most outrageous and diabolical acts of which man can be guilty and so far aa as we have heard without any provocation whatever there is a strong probability that one of the party nied died of the wound received by the birin fir lil iii of arnolds in a short abort time atter after the occurrence but nothing very definite is known of the matter the citizens had bad nearly all retired to rest and the night was so dark that it would have bave been hardly possible to have recognized r a person passing through b the streets and no more favorable opportunity could have been had for committing a deed of the kind and getting away undetected than was taken by these those who in violation of law both human and divine must have coolly resolved on taking the life of a fellow being and then consummated the hellish deed as related we hope that the affair will be thoroughly a investigated and the offenders brought to condign punishment if those who assume to exercise exclusive jurisdiction in such matters would do their duty faithfully such ces would soon cease to disgrace this once peaceful and happy territory |