For the Purpose of Outrage and Murder
10 FEB 1886. Austin Daily Statesman.
MONDAY NIGHT’S SHOOTING.
The negro Nathan Elgin, shot Monday night, was alive last night, but his physicians have very little hope of his final recovery. Drs. Cummings and Graves probed the wound yesterday, and ascertained that the ball had entered the spinal column, and was in such a position as to make it impossible to extract it. Elgin’s lower extremities are paralyzed.
It was learned yesterday that the woman he so unmercifully treated is quite young, and his object in dragging her off from the crowd, to a house several blocks away, is believed to have been for the purpose of outrage and perhaps murder.
There is also some doubt as to whose shot is was that sent a bullet into him. The wound, so it is said, appears to have been made by a 38-caliber, whereas, Officer Bracken’s is a 45. It is possible that the shot intended for the officer struck Elgin. Officer Bracken is nominally under arrest, of course, but was on duty last night. The universal sentiment, so far as heard, among both black and white, is that he is entirely blameless.