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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
8
Mrs Archie Edwards, about thirty, is killed in a revolver duel with Ben Jordan, a colored policeman, on Nico brara avenue near city hall. Edwards fires from three to four feet, wounding Jordan but missing instantly. The coroner arrives. details describe two penetrating bullet paths and the 32 caliber weapon.
Ben Jordan was appointed special deputy marshal about a month ago to watch over colored people. He has performed well, driving several undesirable colored characters from the city.
A police officer and companion heard two shots from a revolver and saw flames at the scene across from The Herald office. They arrived as Jordan fired his last shots, finding a woman unconscious and still breathing.
Ben Jordan described a couple living at 107 Niobrara for three weeks to a Herald reporter. He said the woman walked the streets soliciting her unlawful business nightly and that her husband, about 34, ginger-cake color, 135 pounds, smoky hair, had not worked since arriving at the house. He told the woman to stay off the back streets.
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