I finally got my laptop going and I will try to find on it the passwords to the website so I can do some clean up on it. Keep fingers crossed. Three years ago this month I was in Louisville KY and spent some time in the library going through the Louisville Courier and found a series of articles on the shooting and death of William Prescot Taulbee in 1890. I thought I would repost them for any new members since then. I never got the final article posted and don't know where I may have put it. If I ever find it I will post it, if not if anyone is in Louisville, or anywhere else they have old newspaper microfilms, it would be nice to know what that last post said. Any way here is number 1 I may have put more than one issue in a post. Also, it looks like some of the issues were missing since I seem to jump from the first to the third. Hi gang! I spent the morning in the main Louisville Library going over the microfilms of the shooting of William Preston Taulbee by Charles Kincaid. I was hoping to find the Louisville Times articles that set off the feud between the two of them, but those microfilms were missing. I did find over a dozen in the Louisville Herald-Courier covering the death watch. I did not have time to get the trial itself. I had hoped to get copies I could scan from the microfilm, but the copies were barely readable so I will transcribe them before posting them. The first is March 2, 1890. This is either the first or the second article, I can't tell since the issue for March 1, 1890 is missing. By the dateline, it is probably the second. Anyway, here is the March 2 article: KINCAID AND TAULBEE ______ Condition of the Principals In the Unfortunate Shooting At Washington. ______ The Ex-Congressman's Wound Not Thought To Be Very Dangerous. _______ Mr. Kincaid Waiving Examination, Released on a Two Thousand Dollar Bond. _______ Opinions of the Press On the Affair As Related by a Correspondent. _______ COURSE OF THE BULLET _______ Washington, March 1. - (Special.)- Mr. Chas. F. Kincaid passed a comfortable night in the private room at the stationhouse, to which the police officials had assigned him, and this morning he was allowed to go to his own boarding place for breakfast. He was accompanied by an officer in citizen's clothes, and after remaining at his room for some time he was escorted to the office of C. Maurice Smith, one of his attorneys, and he stayed there until 3:30, receiving the calls of a great many of his friends, and then in company with Mr. Smith and a number of newspaper men he went over to the Police Court, where application for bail was made. This proceeding was brief and the bail was fixed at $2,000 by Judge Miller, and that of itself was a most favorable consideration. Gen. H. V. Boynton and Mr. Robert J. Wynne, of the Washington Bureau of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Col. H. M. F. E. Von Stamp, the latter well known in Louisville, and your correspondent, as well as a number of others, including a wealthy Virginian, were present, ready and anxious to go on the bond of Mr. Kincaid. The Judge first examined Col. Von Stamp, and that gentleman, having sworn that he had property which would sell for from forth to fifty thousand dollars under the hammer and that he would be willing to put up the whole of it for Mr. Kincaid, Judge Miller decided that Col. Von Stamp was ample security for the amount, and Mr. Kincaid was thereupon, promptly released on bail. He was down town this evening, and everywhere his friends expressed their good wishes, and all day he has been in receipt of telegrams, letters and cards, bearing messages of warm friendship, the senders kindly offering to do anything in their power that would aid him. MR. TAULBEE'S CONDITION Mr. Taulbee, the wounded man, is resting comfortably at the Providence Hospital, and received a number of callers to-day. Among the number was Representative McCreary, of Kentucky. He said just after his return from the hospital this afternoon: "I found Taulbee doing well. His brain was clear, and he conversed easily and apparently without pain, and talked to me on a business subject in which we are both interested. He is going to recover. Kincaid will be cleared at the investigation, and then I hope the trouble will all be over. I will do for Kincaid all in my power. I am not connected with the case, but I cheerfully offered my services to Kincaid." Dr. Bayne the attending physician, made the following statement this afternoon regarding Mr. Taulbee's condition. "He is decidedly better. His temperature is 100, his pulse seventy and his respiration normal. The bullet has not been extracted as yet, and it is thought that in its present position it is doing no further damage, at it would be more dangerous to extract it, then to keep it, for the present. There is of course, considerable danger of inflammation still, but at present I am very hopeful of the recovery of the patient, "The ball," said the doctor, "struck just at the outer edge of the left eye, fracturing the bond and passing downward for a distance of probably two and a half inches form its entrance, and lodging in the maxillary bone, where at present, it is doing no damage." OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The Evening Star prints very good pictures to-day of both Kincaid and Taulbee, and that paper pays Mr. Kincaid many compliments, speaking of him as a man of the steadiest habits, of a peaceable and inoffensive disposition and who would be one of the last men to provoke or engage in a fight, and that he is not in the habit of carrying weapons; but procured one yesterday because he felt that his life was in danger. The Washington Critic printed the following this evening regarding the case: "The shooting was a general topic of conversation at the Capitol this morning, and the general feeling is that it was little short of a desecration to indulge in attacks of personal violence beneath the dome of the capitol. Yet, when it was learned that Taulbee had been pursuing Kincaid for months, and had insulted him previously to this, the only wonder is that the shooting did not occur earlier. He had been warned to let Kincaid alone, but contemptuously pronounced him a coward and continued his persecutions. The insult of yesterday was too gross to be let pass without being resented, and as the physical disparity between the two men precluded a physical encounter, there was nothing left but to shoot. Kincaid had endeavored to avoid the encounter, but in vain." NOTHING TO SAY Captain Sam Donelson, ex-Door-Keeper of the House, who was the only eye-witness of the shooting still refuses to talk of the matter. He says both Mr. Taulbee and Mr. Kincaid may talk all they want to, but as for him, he has only one story to tell, and that in the courts. He is a friend of both parties and they are, he says, friends of his friends, and while he deeply deplores the matter, he will not talk about it. Last night at the station-house a tall good looking man walked in bearing in his arms a huge bundle of bedclothes. He did not even know Mr. Kincaid; but said that he had read of his arrest and did not want him to lack for accommodations. This was a real kind and amusing offer; but as the officers had provided Kincaid with a private room upstairs, he did not need the bed clothing, though appreciating his unknown friend's good intentions. Only a short article appeared in the Louisville Herald-Courier on March 3, 1890 Inquiry at the Providence Hospital to-night showed the condition of ex-Congressman Taulbee was still entirely favorable. He rested all day, and seems to be on the road to recovery. His physician says that he is doing as nicely as he could wish, and he thinks he will soon be out of danger. Mr. Kincaid has recovered from the nervous shock of the affair, and is in a composed condition to-day. The friends of both parties hope that Mr. Taulbee will not enter into a serious prosecution of the case.