From the Richmond Whig, 8/25/1865, p. 3, c. 2

A MYSTERIOUS SHOTTING AFFAIR – SUPPOSED FATAL RESULT. – About 11 ½ o’clock on Wednesday night, a soldier named Daniel O’Conner, Fifth Pennsylvania Artillery, was shot, and perhaps fatally injured, by one of three men, also soldiers, at the corner of Main and 24th streets. The ball, from a pistol, entered the left temple, and, passing downward, passed through the mouth, knocking out several teeth and fracturing the jaw bone. – The party or parties who fired the pistol left the scene immediately. The wounded man was picked up by some citizens and carried to the office of Dr. Janway, the Medical Purveyor at the Moore Hospital, corner of Main and 25th streets, where his shocking wound was dressed. It is not thought that he can recover, as there was much internal bleeding. The party firing the weapon must have stood in very close proximity to O’Conner, as his face is burnt and blackened by powder. Later in the night, the police made several arrests of suspected parties, who underwent a partial examination yesterday morning at the office of the Chief of Police. The examination was adjourned to await the result of the wound inflicted upon O’Conner, who, during the day, was removed to the Post Hospital, at the western terminus of Main street.

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