This afternoon at 5 o'clock, as the steamer Fulton, which plies between here and the mouth of the Hatchie River, was within thirty miles of Memphis on her downward trip, a negro rouster, named Oscar Martin, began to make trouble with some of the crew. Capt. W. H. Walker and his mate, Shade S. Lewellyn, both ordered Martin to keep quiet, when, without warning, he drew a bull-dog pistol from his pocket and shot the mate. The ball entered just below the left nipple and is considered a mortal wound. Martin, after firing his pistol, ran along the guard of the steamer, and in his hurry to reach the hold knocked overboard a negro deck passenger named William Underwood, who was drowned before assistance could reach him. Two of the crew went into the hold and brought out Martin, who on arrival of the steamer tonight was lodged in the station-house. Lewellyn was a member of the DeSoto Boat Club, and has for a long period been connected with river interests.
Knoxville Daily Chronicle, 28 DEC 1882