NEWS BY THE MAIL.
A “ political murder ” in the South has not taken place for some time but one took place on the Bth of June, at Jackson, Mississippi. The victim was C lonel Crane, of the United States army, who had been appointed Mayor of Jackson by the military o mimander, and the murderer was the Hon. Edward Zerger, a well-known citizen of that place. Zerger haq. refused fjo'pay’ his city taxes on'the groupd that the military Government was illegal, and in doe course qf law a distress warrant was issue I, on which a piano belonging to Zerger was seized and sol 1. Meeting Colopel Crane in the street, Zepger accosted him roughly and began tq insult hini. Crane kept h'.s temper, but urn wisely mentioned the fact that he was not armed, Tu's was sufficient for the chivab rous Southern, who exclaimed, “ You Yankee son of a ——, you shan’t rule me!” drew his bowie-knife, and plunged it into Crane’s breast, repeating the blow five times. An his victim fell dead, Zerger walked coolly off, but was soon arrested by the military, and placed in the guard-house, and he will be tried by a military commission, and probably hung, although, if he were tried by a jury of his fellow citizens, he, no doubt, would be acquitted. Zerger is a famous duellist, and is said to be “one or the finest repnsentatives of the real Simon Pure Southern aristocracy.” H : s victim w’as an excellent officer and a man of high character. His wife when looking at the dead body of her husband said to the military commander, who was standing by her side, “ General, slavery murdered my husband, and I do hope that you will rec nstruet this State on pure Republican pr’nciples.” Between Saturday night and Monday morning lately, in New York and Brooklyn., there were eight murders aijd fights' with knives and pistols. On Sunday morning two white men went tq the house of a negro in Brooklyn, and asked him to be kind enough to come out and be “licked.” He went out, shot one of his assailants through the heart, chased the other away, aud then took his own departure for parts unknown. Qn East Broadway thef * was a liglft between two men, one of wbqin stabbed, the qthcr and then escaped. Qn Ninth Avenue there was a similar fight, and the stabber, whose victim is mortally wounded, escaped. On Pearl street a man shot off the nose of another, but was captured. Op Cathedral street a man was stabbed in the side, and his assailant escaped; after the surgeon, who had been sent fqr,' had dressed the wqund of the sufferer, and waS proceeding homeward, he was attacked and stubbed in the arm. A man pained Skelly, after a quarrel in an oyster saloon, seised a kmfo, and ran a-muck through the streets, stab-
bing at everyone he met until his career was cut short by some one who first knocked him down and then stabbed him. A few days ago, Mr F. P. Woodhall, a gentleman employed in on insurance company of th ; s city, drew from the office 100 dollars, and went towards his home on Staten Island. The next day his body was found floating in the bay, his skull fractured, apparently by blows from a club, and his pockets empty. The day before yesterday the body of an unknown man was found in the river, his head smashed, and an iron ball attached to his waist by a rope.
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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 24 September 1869, Page 2
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591NEWS BY THE MAIL. Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1993, 24 September 1869, Page 2
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