Karen I'm glad that's cleared up. The last time that was posted on the internet the shooter was an editor in Richmond, Virginia Charley caldwel@kyol.net writes: > MATTINGLY, LEWIS T. > ADAMS CENTINEL (newspaper), 1/15/1823 > GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA > FATAL ENCOUNTER > LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, DECEMBER 20. > On Tuesday last an occurrence took place in Richmond, Madison County, of a > most serious and distressing nature. In consequence of some controversy, > with the particulars of which we are not sufficinetly well acquainted to > undertake to detail them, Edmund Irvine, Esq., a young gentleman of that > place, made an attack upon Mr. Lewis T. Mattingly, editor of the Richmond > Republican, who, being armed with a pistol, shot his assailant through the > heart, so that he instantly expired. Mr. Irvine had been but a few weeks > married to a daughter of Green Clay, Esq. of Madison County.