McCarty, Dan Riddled With Buckshot 1893

MCCARTY, NETHEROW

Posted By: Ernie Braida
Date: 8/16/2011 at 21:23:05

Last Friday night witnessed the final chapter in Dan McCarty's checkered career. He was shot and almost instantly killed by some man lying in wait near McCarty's house.

A messenger came to Knoxville about 2 o'clock Saturday morning to get Sheriff Amos and McCarty's attorney, E. R. Hays. Both at once started for Marysville.

It seems that on Friday night Dan McCarty, his brother Joe and their mother were sitting at home reading. Dan. looked at his watch about 9:30, and remarked that he didn't suppose it was so late, and that he would retire, as he wanted to go to the farm next day. Joe said that he would get a bucket of water, and, picking up the bucket, started out of the open door. Dan followed him out and turned toward the corner of the house, when his brother heard the shot. Dan. was so near the door that when he fell backward on the porch his head and shoulders were almost inside. Joe testified that he saw two forms in the semi-darkness. Both he and his mother testified that they saw John Netherow's face.

When McCarty fell he at once began bleeding copiously. He told several who were attracted by the affair that he was dying. He lay on the porch, while his mother held his head. Life remained about a half hour, death resulting from loss of blood.

Some twenty or thirty buckshot were found in the dead man's body.

A relative of McCarty's was in town Saturday for the purpose of getting warrants for the arrest of John Netherow and John Davis, but for some, reason he gave up the idea and returned without them. It is said that the two young men named can prove an alibi, as both were engaged in playing cards at Netherow's house at the time the shooting occurred.

The tragedy was a shocking one to the people of that community, and they condemn the action. Although McCarty was an unscrupulous and dangerous man and greatly feared the feeling very generally is that the manner of his taking off was a most cowardly and brutal one. The dead man had but recently recovered from what was at first thought a fatal wound received several weeks ago, and the summary treatment dealt out to him Friday night seems all the more revolting on that account.

The funeral took place at Marysville Sunday. No warrants have been issued as yet.

Marion County Newspapers 1893