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.’astheit vA*ireesttheindvilltonen-ny.hisdermaonureise-onmdef-Ere-t hs.Al-funrot-isrs.uci, uiuv.u uuui: u.L iv u ciuciv uiiday night, 21st, after suffering intensely the last twenty-four hours of his life.vBy his own eofessiou the shooting by Johnson was wholly unprovoked. Robert Mukos had entered the saloon Wind gotten into a difficulty with one of its inmates and knocked him down. For this Mukes was ejected from the saloon by Brown, the barkeeper. Johnson was standing on the pavement in front of the saloon when Mukes was pushed out by Brown, and as soon as Brown returned into the saloon Johnson drew his.revolver, a 44-caliber bulldog, and stepping to the screen fired upon Brown, the ball entering his side and penetrating the cavity and passing through the liver. Johnson then tied, but was arrested about midnight by officers Strack and Murphy and locked up. Officer Murphy, prior to the arrest of John son. had arrested Mukes as accessory to the killing. But it appearing that Mukes had nothing to do with * the shooting he was nned for assault and battery on the man he had attacked in the saloon.When Jonson was arraigned on a charge of shooting with intent to kill he entered a p.ea of guiffy before Justice Richardsput am' was held in $1,000 to answer in theticeaereveddllestraion,; thecircuit court. To-day the charge against Johnson was changed to murder and on this charge he will be arraigned.Johnson exculpates Mukes from any complicity in the shooting, declaring that he did not speak to Mukes of his intent to shoot. He further states that he ownedthe pistol with which the shooting was
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1981
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