A TEXAN INCIDENT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 292, 3 November 1875, Page 4

A TEXAN INCIDENT.

Yesterday morning, Deputy-Sheriff M'Carty, residing at Whitesborough, arrived in thia city, having in charge a prisoner. A Register reporter immediately sought an interview with Mr. M'Carty, and succeeded in gathering the following details of the horrible manner in whioh one neighbour, crazed for blood, sought to murder his neighbour and kill his wife :-— _. O. L. .. .Davie,,, the prisoner, is a farmer, and lived within four miles of Whitesbofough. He is a single man, and lived in one end of a double loghouSe, .he other end of. which was occupied by H. N, Haewell and family, wjioße. lives were sought by Divis. The shooting docurred last Mouday afternoon, and was the outgrowth of an old feud between Davis and Haewell. Sometime last spring they had a difficulty about a trivial matter connected with their farming operations, when high words arose, but it, was thought the matter had been settled and no further trouble was anticipated. On Monday evening,' however, when Mr Hiiawell ; stepped out of the house, he t was approached by Davis, who had . evidently been on the watch for him, pod who -was armed with a doublebarrel shot-gun. and who, wilhout a "word of warning, raised the gun and fired. Mr Haewell fell, with nine or ten buck-shot in his left shoulder. •Thinking be had dispatched his victim, the desperado turned, as' Mrs Haewell appeared in the door, end-snapped his jgun at her. Fortunately, however, it failed to fire, and Davis coolly turned into his own door and deliberately reloaded and re-capped his gun. In a very short time the news flashed over the n'eighbburhool that Mr Haawell had beed murdered, and the neighbouring farmers eong regal iog, found him lying upon tbe grass inhis yard covered with blood, and in an almost dying condition. He still retained conscious-fies-j however, and, strange as it may seem, had the presence of mind to fight the flies and insects from his terrible wounds, Davitf, after re-entering the house and reloading bis gun, warned tbose .who hud-arrived that it would be certain death to enter his room without •Bis permission ; and repeatedly swore that he weuld not be arrested, but -would fight those who attempted it to tbe bitter end. He swore that he did _nqt want to escape j that he would. not .surrender, to the highest officer ; that he would not Come out of the house .until he was brought out a corpse, and he was ready to meet death at any moment. He then called in two men and bad tbem to write a will while he 'had a pistol within reach, and, closely Watching those who drafted tbe will, be signed it, and made other preparations for death. In the meantime, a man had been despatched to Whiteeborough for a physician to dress the wounds of Has we! I. When tbe messenger arrived al the house of the medical man, that brave and efficient officer, A. K. M'Carty, who had juet returned to Whitesbo- . rough, from a long chase after some thieves, heard of the shooting, and without waiting for a. warrant or writ of any. kind, mounted bis horse and ; rode with headlong speed to the scene of tbe shooting. When he arrived, he he found many of those residing in tbe vicinity grouped around Mr Haawell, wbo was supposed to be dying. Those present warned M'Carty not to attempt to enter the room ; and told bim that it would- be certaiu death ; but laughing at their fears, and although knowing he bad a desperate madman to deal with, he deliberately walked into the 1 room. He found Davis seated at a table, while the men who drafted the will were sitting directly opposite to him. rM'Carty went up to Davis, threw his left ' arm around his neck, and with the other presented a revolver to his head. Davis, though taken by surprise, never quailed, but having bis hand on a Daringer pistol, attempted to draw it. By simply touching a finger to the trigger of his revolver, M'Carty could have blown hia breios out. Seeing this, and seeing that Davis had fully made up his mind to die, several spectators rushed in, and seizing Davis pinioned his arms so securely tbat be could not do any harm. They then disarmed and spcurely chained him, after wbich M'Carty couyeyed him to Whitesborough,' where he had an examination before E-qviire Wilson, and in default of 20,000 dols bail, was remanded to the - county jail. Alter ho was chained in a waggon he begged to ba killed, an 1 dared any one present to undo his bonds and shoot with him. He is perhaps the most bloodthirsty human fiend that was ever lodged in our jail. He will certainly be executed.