SHOOTING AFFRAY - Emanuel Dresbach and John Corder, living near together in Amanda township, Fairfield county, got into an unfortunate difficulty on Wednesday morning of this week, which resulted in the death of the former. The facts as we learn them are, viz: Dresbach's dog had run down Corder's cow, and Corder took his gun and went to shoot the dog, when Dresbach came at him with a stone. Corder told him to not come at him or he would shoot him. Dresbach continued to approach with the stone, when Corder fired, the charge taking effect in Dresbach's bowels. The wounded man lingered until evening, when he died. Corder was not in custody at the last accounts we have. Both parties were respectable citizens.
*Story copied from the Circleville Democrat dated Aug 12, 1864
HERE'S ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STORY......
Manuel fell a victim to one of those terrible crimes of violence which grew out of the Rebellion. In 1863, he was living in Amanda township, Fairfield county, Ohio, and was a strong Union man. The drafting of men for the army by the National government was mediated, and in some sections had been begun. In his neighborhood, men were mustering, to prevent, by force of arms, its taking effect. Partisan feeling ran high, and violence was threatened in many localities. Manuel Dreisbach was not one of those who feared to speak his sentiments, and he did so, on several occasions, telling various individuals that they had no right to resist the orders of the government, and using his influence towards creating a law-abiding sentiment. It was feared by some of his friends that he would meet with violence, but he entertained no such apprehensions. One day, while engaged upon his farm in threshing grain, he went to the house to make some arrangement for dinner for the men in his employ, and there met a man who had worked for him several years, and with whom he was on the best of terms, so far as he knew. The man had a rifle, and with scarcely a word of warning, he raised it to his shoulder and fired. The ball took effect in Mr. Dreisbach's chest, but he did not fall. The assassin drew a revolver, to finish his bloody work, but was driven away by the threshers, who pursued him with pitchforks. He escaped. Mr Dreisbach died in a few hours. John C. Corder, the hired man who fired the fatal shot, is today in the State's prison, serving out a sentence for murder, having escaped, by a narrow chance, the gallows. No cause was shown for the crime, other than that Mr. Dreisbach's utterances had been distasteful to some of the people in his neighborhood. It transpired, in the trial, that Corder had, sometime in previous years, committed a murder in Virginia; that he was a desperate character, whom a few dollars would induce to commit any crime. It was alleged that he was a hired assassin.
*Story copied from the "1880 History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties", in a section about the Dreisbach Family
*Story copied from the Circleville Democrat dated Aug 12, 1864
HERE'S ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STORY......
Manuel fell a victim to one of those terrible crimes of violence which grew out of the Rebellion. In 1863, he was living in Amanda township, Fairfield county, Ohio, and was a strong Union man. The drafting of men for the army by the National government was mediated, and in some sections had been begun. In his neighborhood, men were mustering, to prevent, by force of arms, its taking effect. Partisan feeling ran high, and violence was threatened in many localities. Manuel Dreisbach was not one of those who feared to speak his sentiments, and he did so, on several occasions, telling various individuals that they had no right to resist the orders of the government, and using his influence towards creating a law-abiding sentiment. It was feared by some of his friends that he would meet with violence, but he entertained no such apprehensions. One day, while engaged upon his farm in threshing grain, he went to the house to make some arrangement for dinner for the men in his employ, and there met a man who had worked for him several years, and with whom he was on the best of terms, so far as he knew. The man had a rifle, and with scarcely a word of warning, he raised it to his shoulder and fired. The ball took effect in Mr. Dreisbach's chest, but he did not fall. The assassin drew a revolver, to finish his bloody work, but was driven away by the threshers, who pursued him with pitchforks. He escaped. Mr Dreisbach died in a few hours. John C. Corder, the hired man who fired the fatal shot, is today in the State's prison, serving out a sentence for murder, having escaped, by a narrow chance, the gallows. No cause was shown for the crime, other than that Mr. Dreisbach's utterances had been distasteful to some of the people in his neighborhood. It transpired, in the trial, that Corder had, sometime in previous years, committed a murder in Virginia; that he was a desperate character, whom a few dollars would induce to commit any crime. It was alleged that he was a hired assassin.
*Story copied from the "1880 History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties", in a section about the Dreisbach Family
SHOOTING AFFRAY - Emanuel Dresbach and John Corder, living near together in Amanda township, Fairfield county, got into an unfortunate difficulty on Wednesday morning of this week, which resulted in the death of the former. The facts as we learn them are, viz: Dresbach's dog had run down Corder's cow, and Corder took his gun and went to shoot the dog, when Dresbach came at him with a stone. Corder told him to not come at him or he would shoot him. Dresbach continued to approach with the stone, when Corder fired, the charge taking effect in Dresbach's bowels. The wounded man lingered until evening, when he died. Corder was not in custody at the last accounts we have. Both parties were respectable citizens.
*Story copied from the Circleville Democrat dated Aug 12, 1864
HERE'S ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STORY......
Manuel fell a victim to one of those terrible crimes of violence which grew out of the Rebellion. In 1863, he was living in Amanda township, Fairfield county, Ohio, and was a strong Union man. The drafting of men for the army by the National government was mediated, and in some sections had been begun. In his neighborhood, men were mustering, to prevent, by force of arms, its taking effect. Partisan feeling ran high, and violence was threatened in many localities. Manuel Dreisbach was not one of those who feared to speak his sentiments, and he did so, on several occasions, telling various individuals that they had no right to resist the orders of the government, and using his influence towards creating a law-abiding sentiment. It was feared by some of his friends that he would meet with violence, but he entertained no such apprehensions. One day, while engaged upon his farm in threshing grain, he went to the house to make some arrangement for dinner for the men in his employ, and there met a man who had worked for him several years, and with whom he was on the best of terms, so far as he knew. The man had a rifle, and with scarcely a word of warning, he raised it to his shoulder and fired. The ball took effect in Mr. Dreisbach's chest, but he did not fall. The assassin drew a revolver, to finish his bloody work, but was driven away by the threshers, who pursued him with pitchforks. He escaped. Mr Dreisbach died in a few hours. John C. Corder, the hired man who fired the fatal shot, is today in the State's prison, serving out a sentence for murder, having escaped, by a narrow chance, the gallows. No cause was shown for the crime, other than that Mr. Dreisbach's utterances had been distasteful to some of the people in his neighborhood. It transpired, in the trial, that Corder had, sometime in previous years, committed a murder in Virginia; that he was a desperate character, whom a few dollars would induce to commit any crime. It was alleged that he was a hired assassin.
*Story copied from the "1880 History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties", in a section about the Dreisbach Family
*Story copied from the Circleville Democrat dated Aug 12, 1864
HERE'S ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE STORY......
Manuel fell a victim to one of those terrible crimes of violence which grew out of the Rebellion. In 1863, he was living in Amanda township, Fairfield county, Ohio, and was a strong Union man. The drafting of men for the army by the National government was mediated, and in some sections had been begun. In his neighborhood, men were mustering, to prevent, by force of arms, its taking effect. Partisan feeling ran high, and violence was threatened in many localities. Manuel Dreisbach was not one of those who feared to speak his sentiments, and he did so, on several occasions, telling various individuals that they had no right to resist the orders of the government, and using his influence towards creating a law-abiding sentiment. It was feared by some of his friends that he would meet with violence, but he entertained no such apprehensions. One day, while engaged upon his farm in threshing grain, he went to the house to make some arrangement for dinner for the men in his employ, and there met a man who had worked for him several years, and with whom he was on the best of terms, so far as he knew. The man had a rifle, and with scarcely a word of warning, he raised it to his shoulder and fired. The ball took effect in Mr. Dreisbach's chest, but he did not fall. The assassin drew a revolver, to finish his bloody work, but was driven away by the threshers, who pursued him with pitchforks. He escaped. Mr Dreisbach died in a few hours. John C. Corder, the hired man who fired the fatal shot, is today in the State's prison, serving out a sentence for murder, having escaped, by a narrow chance, the gallows. No cause was shown for the crime, other than that Mr. Dreisbach's utterances had been distasteful to some of the people in his neighborhood. It transpired, in the trial, that Corder had, sometime in previous years, committed a murder in Virginia; that he was a desperate character, whom a few dollars would induce to commit any crime. It was alleged that he was a hired assassin.
*Story copied from the "1880 History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties", in a section about the Dreisbach Family
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