The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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A HUNTER KILLS HIS FRIEND THROUGH MISTAKE
By S. C. Turnbo
A pathetic account was furnished me by William Riddle who has lived on Long Creek in Carroll County, Ark. for many years.
Mr. Riddle said that John Paley and Hamp Youngblood who lived on Long Creek
went out together one moonlit night to shoot turkeys and being successful
each went to the same locality where they had went the night previous to
kill more turkeys without letting each other know that he was going. Mr.
Paley on arriving where they had killed some of the turkeys the night before
which was a mile or two on the east side of Long Creek, stopped and concealed
himself and began calling turkeys. Youngblood on arriving in hearing distance
of the caller supposed that it was a real wild turkey began to creep along
in the grass toward where Paley was hidden from view. Each man was ignorant
of the others presence. Paley discovered him in the grass and thinking he
was a turkey leveled his gun at him and fired and the supposed turkey sank
down and Paley got up and forward to pick it up and found that he had shot
his friend Youngblood who was dying but was yet able to articulate a few
words and told Paley that he had shot him and that his time on earth was
short. Mr. Paley was in great grief and distress and rushed off at once
to notify the nearest neighbors and when they arrived there Youngblood had
expired. This cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood.
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