Mobile Advertiser & Register

June 8, 1861

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            A MAN SHOT.—Michael O’Brien, a man who has heretofore been employed at one of the cotton presses, but had recently attached himself to a company encamped down the bay, was shot yesterday afternoon by Thomas Vick, a gardener living in the neighborhood of the camp and is now in the hospital with little, if any, probability of his recovery.  It is understood that he had previously committed depredations upon Vick, who had threatened that he would shoot him if he repeated them, and that he was shot while repeating his lawless acts.  Vick immediately surrendered himself to a neighbor and proceeded with him to town, but on the road was attacked by a crowd of O’Brien’s comrades, who, it is hoped, did not altogether understand the circumstances of the case, and suffered severely from their assaults.  He was placed in the guardhouse, and medical assistance was procured for him.