Clarion-Ledger clipping
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Foote, William Henderson, 1843-1883; Yazoo City (Miss.); Morgan, A. T. (Albert Talmon)
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THE YAZOO RIOT.
Incited by A. T. Morgan's Incendiary Harangue.
An Attempt by Radical Leaders to Maltreat a Colored Conservative.
A Fight - Two Men Killed - And a Flight.
Yazoo Herald.]
While A. T. Morgan, the Radical sheriff of this county, was speaking, Wednesday night, at Wilson's hall, upon political matters, a row occurred between a white man and a negro in regard to something said by the speaker, in which Dick Mitchell, a desperate man and one of the rising luminaries in the Radical firmament was killed by a pistol shot, the ball striking him in the neck and resulting as before stated, fatally - and W. H. Foote, the negro circuit clerk of this county, wounded so severely that his life is despaired of by his physician. Dr. Moore's coat was perforated by a large sized ball, while Mr. Ed. Drenning received a slight wound in the shoulder.
Incited by A. T. Morgan's Incendiary Harangue.
An Attempt by Radical Leaders to Maltreat a Colored Conservative.
A Fight - Two Men Killed - And a Flight.
Yazoo Herald.]
While A. T. Morgan, the Radical sheriff of this county, was speaking, Wednesday night, at Wilson's hall, upon political matters, a row occurred between a white man and a negro in regard to something said by the speaker, in which Dick Mitchell, a desperate man and one of the rising luminaries in the Radical firmament was killed by a pistol shot, the ball striking him in the neck and resulting as before stated, fatally - and W. H. Foote, the negro circuit clerk of this county, wounded so severely that his life is despaired of by his physician. Dr. Moore's coat was perforated by a large sized ball, while Mr. Ed. Drenning received a slight wound in the shoulder.
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