The Meridian Gazette has the following account of a murder.
On Wednesday evening, about dark, Mr. Charles Anderson, living two and a half miles from Meridian, on the Decatur Road, was sitting at his table taking supper with his family; with is back to the door of his house, when he was fired upon at his door, one ball entering his body to the left of his spine, and lodging on the other side against the skin, the other passing through the back of the chair in which he was sitting, and falling upon the floor. He got up and stepped to one side of the room immediately. His wife put her head in the door, when the assassin, who had moved back from the door, about twenty yards, called to her to take her head in, repeating the remark. She said to him that he ought not to shoot again, as he had killed him - that he had shot Charley Anderson. Where the assassin coolly remarked that he was very sorry for it, as he was the wrong man; that he knew he had enemies about there, and he thought one of them lived in that house. He then asked Anderson if he was much hurt, and again expressed his regret, saying he was not the man he intended to shoot. When asked who he intended shooting he turned and left. The alarm was given, and in a short time a number of the neighbors arrived, and search was made for the assassin, but without effect. Anderson lingered until Thursday night, when he expired, leaving behind a large and helpless family. Mrs. Anderson only got a partial view of the murderer, it being dark, and is unable to give any description of his personal appearance.
[Memphis Daily Avalanche - April 13, 1867 Transcribed and Contributed by: Frances Cooley]

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