Anson County NcArchives News.....Death of Col.  Martin Pickett August 28, 1852
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Wadesboro' "Argus" 28 Aug. 1852 August 28, 1852
         MELANCHOLY EVENT: DEATH OF COL. MARTIN PICKETT
   It becomes our painful duty to record a melancholy event that happened in 
this village on Sunday morningl, the 22nd instant. 
   W. W. BOYD and MARTIN J. PICKETT, both citizens of the town engaged in a 
rencountre at the above-mentioned time in the piazza fronting SIGMAN'S Hotel, 
in which  PICKETT was shot twice by BOYD with two different pistols. The ball 
of the first pistol did not inflict a mortal wound; that of the second, did. 
Both balls entered the abdoman. The one fired from the second pistol passed 
into the left kidney. COLONEL PICKETT languished in the most intense pain and 
agony until Tuesday morning when he died.
   MR. BOYD has been committed to jail to await his trial at the next Superior 
Court to be held for this County.

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