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The Daily Dispatch: June 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
r about two weeks age of the uit Court of that city for manslaughter for one year. Kersbaw, a black smith, and with one Lanier, his employer, which seeing only temporarily adjusted, was renewed on Pocahontas bridge, and even tauted in Kershaw's shooting Lanier in the head with a pistol bullet. The "ball" proved to be a horse-shoe nail, and was not extracted. Lanier got so far well as to be able to walk about for a few days, when a sudden pain seized and he retired to bed, whence he was onlyLanier got so far well as to be able to walk about for a few days, when a sudden pain seized and he retired to bed, whence he was only conveyed as a dead man. On examination, it was found that the head of the horse-shoe nail had not, as in the case of a leaden bullet, presented any surface for flesh to adhere to, but had moved and produced irritation and subsequent death. The death of Lanier, under the circumstances, renewed the matter, and the civil authorities laying hold of Kershaw as a murderer, his trial and conviction, after several months, resulted. His release was asked for by a number of respectable residents of the