...Hospital, and shooting at them, as marks, with a pistol — in order, says the declaration of Mr. JC Ker, " to improve his skill as a marksman in his expected...Dr. McFarlane, I myself having witnessed the fact." Thus we have gleaned the prominent characteristics of this unaccountably strange gentleman, from the...

...persons who had died under his care whilst House Surgeon of Charity Hospital, and shooting at them as marks with pistols, in order to improve his skill...marksman in his expected contest with Dr. McFarlane." Astonishingly, although an exchange of correspondence in the New Orleans newspapers continued for some...