Wythe County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Seagle, Brown Shot and Dangerously Wounded 1874
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Richmond Dispatch Sat Oct 10, 1874 Pg 3 1874
   An Outrageous Shooting affair on Cripple Creek.
--We are sorry to learn that Mr. Brown Seagle,
of Cripple Creek, was shot and dangerously
wounded on Sunday last by a trifling character
named John Hoback. The shooting was done under
circumstances as unprovoked, unjustifiable, and
malicious as we have ever heard of. It seems 
that a son of Hoback was in the orchard of Mr.
Seagle getting apples, when Mr. Seagle ordered
him off, using some such expression as "Those
are my apples; get out of my orchard, you thieving
little rascal." The boy went home and reported
this language to his father, whereupon Hoback 
seized his pistol, and, though appeaaled to by
his wife not to pursue such a course, went off
to mr. Seagle's, and meeting that gentleman in
his yard, with a child in his arsm, deliberately
fired at him. The ball fortunately struck the
lower part of the body, entering the thigh, and
was cut out at the rear part of the hip. Hoback
immediately fled, and though some eighteen or
twenty of the neighbors have been in pursuit
of him he has not yet been apprehended. At
first it was thought that Seagle's wound would
 prove father, but we are glad to learn that
the doctor who attended Mr. S. does not consider
it so. Seagle is one of the most quiet, law-abiding,
and inoffensive men in the couonty, and the 
ruthless and unprovoked manner in which he was
shot has caused much excitement and indignation 
in the neighborhood. It is to be hoped that Hoback
will be caught and made to suffer the penalty
of his crime. --Wytheville Enterprise.

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