Osage County KS Archives News.....Lavey, Patrick "Pat and His Gun" 1895
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The Osage County Chronicle Thur Oct 3, 1895 Pg 5 1895

             Pat and His Gun
   Pat Lavey has been confined in the county
bastile during the past week for promiscuous
using of fire arms. He didn't kill anybody,
didn't even hit anything but the roof of a
shed,  but he shot several times and was arr-
ested for it.
   The details of the affair, which occurred
at the Petetson Saturday, were given to the
Chronicle by one who was close by at the time
of the shooting; and it looks to us at if Pat
was shooting more to scare than to hit.
   Mrs. Hughes, whose husband was killed at the
Sante Fe depot by a train a few years ago, and
for which she, not long ago got $8,000, married
Tom Berry soon after her claim was settled, and
their home is now in Lyon County. It appears
that her children are not exactly satisfied 
regarding the fund, and have commenced suit
against her, which said brought herself and
husband to Peterton for awhile. Before going 
she had borrowed two table leaves of Wm. Lavey,
father of Pat, which were not returned. Mr. 
Lavey spoke to Jim Berry, a brother of Tom
Berry, about them and Jim gave Mr. Lavey a
reply to which Pat took exceptions; and Pat
forthwith began to express his mind in a
language peculiar to himself and applied
names to Mr. Berry that were not complimentary
to either Mr. Berry or his ancestors. Berry
went home told his brother Tom of the affair,
and in repeating got it that the unpleasant 
and uncomplimentary epithets were applied to
the former Mrs. Hughes, now Mrs. Berry. The
newly wedded husband, who is about twenty years
the junior of his wife, and thus able to 
protect her good name, went to Pat Lavey's and,
we are told, with shooting irons threatened to
get several kinds of vengeance out of Pat. He,
however, left without getting one kind, but
threatening for the future. Now it seems that 
the former Mrs. Hughes, now Mrs. Berry, and 
the Laveys were acquainted in Scotland, in 
fact were old friends, and Pat did not like the
idea of Jim saying that he had slandered her,
and he proposed to seeing Jim about it. Then,
too, Tom had threatened him with a revolver,
and so he thought it best to take a revolver
to work with him the next morning. Jim and Pat
work in the same mine. They got to the top of
the shaft at about the same time, and were in a
scrap within two minutes after they met. Pat
got Jim down and everlastingly mauled him, 
forgetting all about his revolver till Tom 
appeared on the scene. Then the threat of the
night before came to his mind, and with it
came the thought of the revolver: he pulled it
out and sent a bullet into the roof of the shed,
and then sent three or four more whizzing in
different directions. As Tom was only about a 
rod away and as Pat is a pretty good shot and
none of the bullets went very near the man there
is reason to the claim of Pat's friends and 
that he didn't propose to fight the two single
handed and was only shooting to scare. But the
Berry's won't have it that way, and immediately
swore out a warrant for him. He came to Burling-
ame right after the shooting; some of his friends
here advised him to skip out, but he said that 
he wouldn't do it for a little thing like that.
Constable Abe Harris came up and arrested him,
took him over to Lyndon, and lodged him in the
county jail. We didn't learn whether the table
leaves were found or not.

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