From the Richmond Examiner, 3/12/1866, p. 3, c. 4

PROBABLE FATAL SHOOTING CASE AT THE LIBBY – A NEGRO WOMAN SHOT. – About half-past nine o’clock yesterday morning a negro woman named Susan Brown, a prisoner at the Libby, was shot, and doubtless fatally wounded, by one of the guard at that post, named Flemington, company E, Eleventh United States Infantry. The negress was very abusive, and used violent language to the guard through the window, the bolts and bars of which she broke. The guard warned her away from the window, but she persisted in thrusting her head therefrom. The guard, having his patience exhausted, fired upon the woman. The ball struck her right arm, above the elbow, passed through into the right breast, and came out just under the shoulder blade. Dr. E. Detas, whose office is No. 8 Seventeenth street, was sent for, and rendered all the surgical aid that was in his power. He declared the wound mortal. The woman was still alive up to last evening, but there existed not the slightest hope that she would survive the wound. Her age is about nineteen years, and she was committed for theft.

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