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    2. BUD LINDSAY IS HARD TO KILL He Is So Used to Being Shot That He Will Recover. Knoxville, Tenn., October 19.—(Special.) Bud Lindsay still lives. Contrary to universal expectation that noted desperado failed to succumb to the two bullets shot into his chest by Deputy United States Marshal J. M. McGhee at Jacksboro yesterday afternoon. The wounds inflicted upon Lindsay would, according to the Jacksboro physicians, have proved fatal to a man of any ordinary physique, but they failed to cause the death of Lindsay. The man has been shot many times before and has been slashed and cut in dozens of places and lived through all. When the doctors examined the wounds inflicted upon him by McGhee they at once pronounced them fatal, and it was confidently expected that the man, whose name has long been a terror in the Coal Creek region, would be a corpse when the sun arose this morning. On the contrary. Lindsay was not only alive at that hour but was demanding something to eat, asserting that he was as hungry as a wolf. After eating the food given him he showed a disposition to talk. "That fellow, said he, "thought he had me, but I knew better. That kind of people can*t kill Bud Lindsay." The wounded man, lying flat on his back as he was, sent word to McGhee that he had better leave the country as he, Lindsay, intended to be "stirring his stumps" in a few days, when there would certainly not be sufficient room for him and McGhee in the same county. The message was delivered to McGhee, who laughed at it contemptuously. The doctors attending Lindsay regard his vitality as something wonderful. One of the bullets lodged in the region of the heart but to Lindsay it seems no more than a flesh wound. It is now the impression that.he will recover, although his condition may at any moment take a turn for the worse and his wounds result in his death. Lindsay is a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, standing six feet four in his socks. His chest is massive and his frame that of a giant. His oldest brother, Mr. Bart Lindsay, is the district attorney of the Knoxville district, and is very highly esteemed here. Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct 20, 1893

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