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KILLED IN A FIGHTBATT1.E ItETWEEM SVIF MIFF’S i'OSHi: ami II Ettl’E NABOBS*Men Who It lt;»I»ImmI n vi (1 Muruered anAu«‘U Womnu nml Her Son Are Overtaken in I lie MonnlafttBi of Ken tacky — Pitched Ilnttle En-sues and luo Men Are liflled a nit Two Wounded — Pivase Hun Ileen After t lie t.nng for Severn! Mont Sin.WhHcsburg, Ky., April 13.-Two men were killed ami two wounded in a fight between Sheriff John Wright andhis deputies on one side and the des-per arJur .s who robbed and murdered aged Mrs. Jemima Hall and Imr son on the other. The fight occurred in the mountains between Boone’s Fork and Woolston Creek. Wright and his posse started out several months ago to capture the gang, who cruelly tortured the aged widow, and after securing her money killed her and her son and burned her body in the little building in which she lived. Citizens have been daily expecting to hear of a pitched -biitil*' l».-f •, the tl* crowds that haw ;ti had se eral skirmishes. Thursda John and Morgan Reynolds, f.sa«e and Creed Potter and tb-orge New S'.me ware located by the posse in a rendezvous on top of the mountain. Morgan Reynolds, New -some and Creed Potter went away, and while they were gone the officers suddenly confronted Creed Potter and John Reynolds and all of them, ten in number, opened fire. The desperadoes replied with rifles and revolvers and more than thirty shots were exchanged at a distance of less than a dozenp.oJohn Reynolds received a serious, if not fatal, wound in the left shoulder and retreated, leaving Potter alone. The lattcrs ammunition soon gave out and he. too, went into hiding. Of the posse' William Wright, age l eighteen, was killed by a st- - l bullet which passed through his abdomen, and IsaacMiller, aged twenty-one, was shot through the heart. A third man named Osborne was struck in the right legand severely hurt.Young Wright, who was killed at the first fire, joined the , posse about a month ago to a verge the murder of his father, W. S. Wright, whom the gang assassinated about a year ago.The flr ng was heard for a distance of thirteen miles. It was at first feared that tlv* I '*vso had been defeated, and Gov. 1 kham was telegraphed to send state troops to capture the gang. When it was learned, however, that the posse had been victorious another message was sent to the governor that the troops wore not needed.Ill UK A VAI. WCIIE.Sweeps Everything lleforo It — Se*-
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Albert Lea Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Apr 17, 1901
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