Mobile Register

June 18, 1861

Page 1

 

����������� AFFLICTING TRAGEDY�We learn from a volunteer, now in the city from Corinth, Miss., that one day last week a member of the Wigfall Rifles, meeting at that place, named J. M. Harrison, a merchant, of the firm of Harrison & Edwards, of Greensborough, Miss., obtained a furlough.� He arrived at his residence at Greensborough before day on Thursday morning, and desiring to surprise his wife, he entered his house, with as little noise as possible.� Mrs. Harrison saw him, however, but in the dark mistook him, and called to his brother, Mr. William Harrison, merchant of town, who was sleeping on the premises, to shoot a negro who had broken in.� He did so, and a heavy load of shot entered his brother�s breast under his nipple.� Mr. Harrison died a few moments later, leaving his wife and brother in a state of distracted agony too fearful to contemplate.� ---[Memphis Appeal]---

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]