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Fifteen Year Old Killers Charged in Cottage Grove Murder
Two Portland youths aged 16 and 18, Thomas Reeves and Hugh Saxton, were arrested after allegedly shooting William Powell, a Gettysburg veteran, during a dispute over food near Cottage Grove. Reeves claimed the act, Saxton wept in jail, and both men described travels from Texarkana to Portland seeking excitement.
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Fred Pisko
Thomas Reeves
Hugh Saxton
Cottage Grove
William Powell
Gettysburg
San Francisco
Portland
Deadwood Dick
Nick Carter
South Portland
Columbia Street
West Side Club
Goose Hallow
Hough Saxton
Carter Street
Heina
Texarkana
Pexas
Sacramento
Luxton
Reeves
Portland Wire & Iron Works
Shird
Flanders Streem
Stavord
Strom
G.L. Hookett
Sheriff Fiske
W. McFarland
Drain
Mynott