Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson story is told in Life and Adventures of Ned Buntline by Fred E. Pont (Will Wildwood...
...Medical Association convened at Richmond, Va., and [Dr. Alban S. Payne*] attended as was his custom. One night . . . the [25 or 30] members were returning from the late session. . . . Upon reaching the foot of Capital Hill, the door of a well-known restaurant flew open, as the redoubtable Bill Patterson emerged therefrom. . . . A very Hercules in size and strength, [he] appeared more formidable than usual, having indulged heavily . . . and being in one of his worst moods...
...Pausing an instant to collect his energies, Billy Patterson dashed at the head of the column. . . . Patterson had utterly routed the front, when 'Spicer' who was bringing up the rear . . . prepared to meet the burly antagonist...
...Patterson . . . found only one man . . . to confront him, he aimed a terrific blow at that individual; but to his great surprise this was readily parried, and the counter blow, à la Yankee Sullivan, fell upon his left eye with such force, that, followed by a second, the desperado was thrown heavily into the street...
...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...