Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas- Crawford County April 12, 1890 SHOT WITHOUT CAUSE Little Rock, April 7. - Tom Hackett, a blacksmith employed in the Iron Mountain shops here, was shot and mortally wounded about 11 o'clock tonight by P. G. Gallagher, night watchman for the same railroad company. Max Duttinger, an eyewitness to the affair, say Hackett was secreted behind a box-car at teh foot of Rock Street, immediately in front of the freight depot, when Gallagher called out "Get away from there". Hackett replied, "I will as soon as I button my pants." Immediately a pistol shot was heard, accompanied by groans. Bystanders went to the assistance of the wounded man and it was discovered that he was shot through the neck just below the ear. He will die. Indignation is great among the railroad men against Gallagher, who was arrested and lodged in jail. Fran Alverson Warren