This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GRIMES, JOHNSON, NEWMAN, WELCHER, WILLLIAMS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1505 Message Board Post: “A Man Shot Last Night “About 11 o’clock last night, two men—Tigh WILLIAMS, a factory operative, and -------- WELCHER, who keeps a wood-yard on the Western Railroad—were engaged in playing cards in Toby NEWMAN’s barroom, on Broad street. From some cause, which we could not learn, they got into a dispute over the game, and WELCHER shot WILLIAMS, the ball entering the forehead just above the right eye. Drs. GRIMES jr,. [sic] and JOHNSON were called in , and did all they could for the wounded man. They probed for the ball, but could not determine where it had lodged. WILLIAMS, we understand, is in a perfect “rough;” WELCHER is represented to be a very quiet, orderly man. WELCHER made his escape.” [From the "Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer" newspaper, Sunday, 28 MAR 1875, p.3. I came across this while researching an unrelated matter. I am not kin to any of the parties and do not have further information. - jml]