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The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Vendetta. (search)
The Vendetta.
--A Fearful Tragedy.--The Memphis Avalanche, of Monday, contains the following:
A fearful tragedy occurred in the city Saturday evening, the sequel of a similar act that transpired at Pocahontas, Ark., some two or three months since.
At that place, the wife of a pilot named Augustus Castilano had a difficulty with a sporting man named Samuel Tate, in regard to a pet bear belonging to the latter, when Tate informed her that if she had a male friend who would espouse her quarrel, he would meet him. On hearing this, Castilano, on the return to Pocahontas of the Kanawha Valley, procured a gun, and meeting Tate, shot and killed him, Castilano came to Memphis on the boat that brought the intelligence from Jacksonport, and was never arrested.
Hugh Tate, a brother to the man killed, since the occurrence has been hunting Castilano.
He traced him to New Orleans, back to Jacksonport, from thence to Springfield, and then back to Memphis, where he arrived on the ste