Benton-Linn-Clinton County IA Archives News.....A Shooting Affair July 16, 1864
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Clinton Herald July 16, 1864


    Clinton Herald, July 16, 1864

    A SHOOTING AFFAIR

    Mr. W. D. Watrous, formerly a resident of this city, but who has for some
time past been living in Blairstown, was shot and dangerously if not mortally
wounded, on Saturday last under the following circumstances:
    He was engaged at his warehouse in Blairstown, in unloading a load of wheat.
A soldier, whose name we did not learn, interfered in an unwarrantable manner
and when requested to desist became outrageous in his conduct, upon which Mr.
Watrous took him by his collar and walked him off. The soldier went to a fellow
soldier nearby and made complaint; the second soldier walked up to Mr. Watrous,
took out a pistol and shot him, the ball entering the groin. Dr. Ely, of this
city, dressed the wound and at last account Mr. Watrous was still alive. If our
information is correct, the outrage was a most brutal one. Both of the soldiers
are under arrest. -Cedar Rapids Times 



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