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\ .• IWesley Sexton, Miner of Lattas Creek, Near Hymera, Is Made Victim of Bullet Fired by His Neighbor—Tragedy Follows Fist FightOn Streets of Jasonville Earlier in the AfternoonSHERIFF WIBLE ANN BEFUTY ANSWER CALLTHE SCENEJ ♦Wesley Sexton, 24 years of age, learned. Both men are married and was shot through the stomach at his , have families. They live in adjoin-home near Lattas Creek mine about one o’clock Tuesday morning by John Adams, ?7*years old who also lives ating houses.Both principals in the shooting •spent most of the day in JasomvilleLattas Creek. Sexton was removed to the hospital at Terre' (Haute laterlit is reported, and while there engaged in a fist fight. They werein the morning, and it is believed he j separated however before the auth-wili die. 'Sheriff Frank Wible and orities learned of the trouble, andboth started home, going however atDeputy Sheriff Ed. Kelley left for (the scene of the shooting about six j o’clock, after receiving a telephone } call from Jasonville to the effect that the shooting was done in Sullivan county. The mine is just across the Greene county line but the men involved in the affair live in this county.A telephone call to Lattas Creek about eleven o’clock Tuesday morning brought the information that immediately following the shooting, Adams left the place, and was last seen about six o’clock Tuesday morning liin Coalmont.The tragedy is said to have been.different times.physician ordered that he be taken at once to the hospital. Adams, disappeared.The bullet was a 32-calibre and lodged in his back, having passed entirely through the stomach.•Sheriff Wible returned home about one o’clock and reported that he found trace of Adams but that he had not yet been arrested. At Hymera it was learned that about fiveThey arrived at home about the o’clock Tuesday morning Adams hir-same time, and there hostilities be-! ed a livery rig there and driving togan anew. Adams is said* to have. Shelburn, boarded the seven o’clock made threats against Sexton’s life; interurbam car of Terre Haute. Sher-as the two men met, in front of their j tiff Wible called the chief of police homes Sexton began a quarrel with. there and told him to be on the look-Adams, telling him that he had un-EOut for the man. who had stated atderstood he had threatened to kill. Shelburn that he was going to Terre him. Only a few Words passed when Haute. Sheriff Wible returned homeAdams drew his revolver and fired, the first bullet taking effect.Sexton fell and was unable to speak when neighbors who h^d been arous- jand Deputy Sheriff Kelley went to Shelburn and Terre Haute to continue the hunt for Adams.Sheriff Wible said the trouble be-ed by the shots rushed out to see J tween the two men was over someIwhat had happened. He was carried trivial affair amd that both men hadthe result of an old grudge, the ex-[ into.his home and A physician sum-j been drinking heavily during the dayiact nature of which could not be: moned. Immediately upon arrival a; preceding the shooting.
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Sullivan Daily Times
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Tue, Apr 02, 1912
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