From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/3/1880, p. 1, c. 3

A MYSTERIOUS SHOT – A COLORED MAN SHOT THROUGH ONE OF HIS LUNGS. – Friday night about 9 o’clock Henry Morris (colored), an employé at the fertilizing-works on Cary street (Libby prison), was shot with a pistol by some person unknown. Morris states that while he was at work two negro men came up and peeped in one of the windows. They acted very suspiciously, and he went out in the street where they were and ordered them away. One of the men said something very insulting to Morris, whereupon he struck him and went back into the house. The men, however, did not leave the window, and while Morris was at work one of them stooped down and drew a pistol from his boot and fired. The ball struck him in his breast, and, passing through one of his lungs, lodged in his back, just under the shoulder. Dr. Isaiah White attended the wounded man, and succeeded in extracting the ball. Five colored men were arrested soon after the shooting occurred, charged with being implicated in it, but they were discharged. The wounded man was taken to his home, on Eighteenth street in the neighborhood of the Church-Hill tunnel.

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