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Eli Hicks bearing towards them with a threatening air, and attended by a hostile party. words scratched out They knew the character of Eli Hicks & his father and sprang to seek their guns and put themselves on the defensive. Hicks thought they were endeavouring to escape and dashed after them, pressing closely upon the Swimmer. The Swimmer caught his gun as the pursuer was upon his heel, turned and shot him. Eli Hicks reeled but did not fall. His companions were alarmed & made off. The swimmer, finding Eli Hicks not killed, cried to the Duck "Give me your gun- I'll finish him." Eli Hicks now fell, and as he fell, exclaimed "I am badly hurt. Do not injure me any more-" and the Swimmer desisted.

The friends of Eli Hicks went to his abode; gathered re-enforcement, and among them, his half brother, George Hicks, and hurried back to the place where he had [unclear] found him in the public pathway, and in great agony. The Swimmer