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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Tragedy in Franklin Parish. (search)
It seems there has been a misunderstanding existing between the parties, E. J. Pierce and M. P. Daily, for more than a year. Occasionally this feeling of animosivocation. Last Saturday, while the Home Guard was on parade in Bœuf prairie, Mr. Pierce demanded of Mr. Daily an explanation of a note written to him by Daily. PierPierce being armed with a double-barreled shot-gun; Mr. Daily thought it unsafe to enter into an explanation without being similarly armed; he therefore procured a gun, and the parties started to the woods.-- Mr. Pierce being ten or twelve feet before, turned and fired, but fortunately for Daily, the entire charge was lodged in a treeanding. Mr. D. then leveled his gun at Pierce, but it missed fire, whereupon Mr. Pierce fired the second barrel, lodging the contents in the side of his antagonist, cting a mortal wound. While in the act of falling the (Daily) fired, killing Mr. Pierce instantly. Thus the two combatants lay on the ground within ten feet of each