Taken from Ypsilanti Commercial, Saturday, Nov. 25, 1871.
Married: BULLOCK-AMSHIRE. In this city, Nov. 19th, 1871, by M. Warner, Esq..
NATHANIEL C. BULLOCK, of Ypsilanti, to SARAH A. AMSHIRE of Dentonville.
This was found in the
Ypsilanti Commercial dated Saturday, January 27, 1872. The article was
right next to the obituary of Joseph Warren Watson.
Nathaniel Bullock
was arrested last Tuesday by S.C. Drake, Deputy Sheriff for assaulting his
father, and breaking down the door with an axe. He threatened his father’s
and bother’s life, and went so far as to procure a revolver, return to the
house and when entering the wood shed fired a shot at random. He then walked
in and found that both had left the house and gone down town. He then said
that if the officer came after him he would shoot him and that he would not be
taken alive. He finally started for Denton’s on foot. Officer Drake went to
the house, found the direction he had gone and starting after him, overtook
him about two miles out. Bullock saw him coming in a cutter with John Marvin,
but did not recognize him. Mr. Marvin drove past him about twenty feet.
Officer D. alighted, drew a steady aim on him with his revolver and told him
to surrender. Bullock began to draw his weapon, when D. told him if he did he
would shoot him dead on the spot. After a moment’s reflection, he
surrendered alleging at the same time that had he been sharply on his guard be
would have reversed the order of things. He was brought before Justice Warner
for examination. His father upon reflection said he had made up his mind that
if he would agree to behave himself, he would not appear against him. So he
paid the costs and was released. He is a desperate and dangerous man when
intoxicated. He is the same man that shot at William Whitmarsh last summer and
was sent to the House of Correction for 60 days. We entreat the young man to
stop now and forever more the use of his worst enemy. The tears and earnest
prayers of a young, beautiful, loving, wife, of a broken hearted mother, his
own temporal and eternal welfare, if he wishes to avoid a felon’s doom, all
second our appeal. "The wages of sin is death."
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