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Maniac with axe kills four in Spartanburg raid
Four men dead and another wounded in Spartanburg when shipping clerk T Earl Robertson suddenly attacked coworkers with an axe. He was captured, jailed, and later sent to the state hospital for the insane as doctors treated victims and investigated motives. Surviving workers and a wife described his "spells" prior to the carnage.
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Spartanburg
Ionight
Jay
T. Earl Robertson
State Hospital
Columbia
R. H. Day
J. W. Bell Company
J. L. Bussey
M.L. Davis
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
Sherbert
Dan Dunlay
J. .W. O’neal
Bell
Robertson
Mill
Davis
J. Lanier
Charleston
Western Carolina
Lanier
Johnson
Roberson
L. J. Blake
L. AL Cudd
Andrew
John
Hell
Bells Firm
Tren Union Hishw
Day
Chattanooga
Kussy
Itson
Sing Lanier
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