People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — THE SOUTHERN WAY. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN WAY.

Another Chapter in the Annals of Crime of Virginia Sargent, Ky., Jan. 1. —Information has been received here from Donkey, Va., of a terrible battle and double murder there Monday evening, the result of a drunken row Christmas over a woman of bad character. Bill Wells and Gus Orsborne, always known as good citizens, with Jim Cox and Ab Williams, two desperate mountain outlaws, met on the public road a half mile from Donkey, heavily armed, for the purpose of fighting it out. Firing was immediately commenced. It continued for more than two hours. Immediately after the firing commenced a deputy sheriff appeared on the scene, but could not stop the fighting. Soon Wells and Orsborne lay lifeless on the roadside, with Cox seriously wounded, being shot twice. The deputy sheriff also received a serious wound in the left leg.