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into an adjoining room returned with a loaded shotgun. At the moment that the lady placed her hands against the shoulders of the
Captain standing thus as she did immediately in front of him and between the two the Captain cocked his revolver and raised it as the old gentleman emerged from the door shot-gun in hand, when seeing the desperate intention of Dorsey she quickly wheeled and retaining bold of him with one hand she cried out to her father to shoot quickly. The parties fired simultaneously Dorsey's ball missing its mark but the charge of buck shot taking deadly effect in the right bosom between the first and second ribs killing the Captain almost instantaneously. The daughter stood so near that her face and person were covered with blood as the full charge o' buck shot at about four paces distant struck in a solid body their unfortunate victim.
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attempt.' 'Stop,' said Uncle Billy, 'not another step.' But Dorsey, reaching up and plucking a leaf from the hedge, put the stem in his mouth and came steadily on, tossing Uncle Billy one of his brace of dueling pistols as he advanced. At the same moment Uncle Billy reached for his shotgun and fired the fatal shot.
233:, cowardly attacked the Registrar of the Land Office, H. P. Dorsey; and each accused the other of being a rascal. A gun in the hands of Dorsey went off. The men were finally separated by the crowd. When they met up north, they exchanged shots were arrested, but their cases were dismissed." As historian
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At this moment one of the daughters of Mr. Rubottom and a married woman ran out of the house towards
Captain Dorsey and as he attempted to step up on the porch, she placed her hands against his shoulders and begged him not to enter the house. Her father in the mean time had left his seat and rushing
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The father would defend his daughter; the husband would have his wife. Both were of
Southern blood, fearless and unyielding. Both had fought to the death before. It was Uncle Billy who called out, 'Dorsey, you can not come in.' And Dorsey, still advancing, said, 'I'll have my wife or die in the
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Apparently, "as both men had reputations for dueling and fighting, the townsfolk accepted that there was no fault in the death, and
Rubottom did not face consequences for Hilliard's murder." In 1859, Charity R. Dorsey sold the cattle ranch in what is now
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recruited and organized
Company C of the regiment known as "Anderson's Rifles," but when Anderson was elevated to lieutenant-colonel in February 1848, Dorsey took over as company captain. One of the soldiers in Dorsey's unit was
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Dorsey was shot and killed by his father-in-law, William W. Rubottom, in
September 1858 after Dorsey assaulted his wife Civility Susan Rubottom Dorsey and appeared to threaten their child. "Uncle Billy" Rubottom ran the
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and Mr. Randolph. Surgeon, Briarly. Weapons, duelling pistols. Distance, ten paces. Word was given by Biven's friends. At the first fire Dorsey was wounded in the abdomen and Biven in the wrist."
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205:, cognac, and champagne, preceded by a fandango well-attended by Mexican señoritas." Once settled in California, Dorsey joined a Masonic lodge, and he worked for the
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in Pomona. Hilliard Dorsey's burial place is undocumented.
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