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MAN WAS MURDEREDEdwin Abbott Found Dead in Creek at Roanoke.Circumstances of FlgM Early in jed to have been worsted and heEvening May Explain Man'sDeath.THROAT GUT BY PIECE OF BROKEN BEER BOTTLETHE TOWN PEOPLE ARE EXCITEDThose Who know Some of the Facts Refused to Say Anything Aboutthe Tragedy.From Tuesday's Dally.With a terrible gash in his throat and a still larger one reaching across his head from near the forehead to the center of the scalp, J. Edwin Abbott was found in the bed of Cow creek in Koanoke near a small bridge in the southern part of town about 11:30 Monday night in a dying condition. He was taken from the stream and dragged to the banks by two friends, Elmer Wilson and Frank Craig, and there he died a few minutes later.Having spent a night in carousal and drunkenness, the men had been on the street not far from the place where the body was found later. At the platform along the side of the Hiser feed store the fight, earlier in the night, had occurred and this was between a crowd of Mahon boys who had driven to Roanoke and who had on a supply of jag. These men from Mahon were two McKinzie boys and two Carpenter boys who secured theirrigs soon after the first brawl and were supposed to have left town but the whole affair Indicates that there was likely trouble afterwards.The fight at the feed store seems to preface the other trouble that oc-curred later and which was at first thought to have been only an accident, □inng started flP^B^Arnet^cme', JPh^Roanoke boys, IsaHWVright, seem-v«IMPORTABLEAppearance.T this time of theyear good dr esse, shaveobliged to h clothes asi appearanceif ort* T ooh clothes arecom-withoftenmadehe flimsiest kind of yr. They look gooda week or two and o go down like a eked flower under aThethatlookthening sun. timer clothes t and soon bby are not d we aim to sell, irs are crisp, fresh I shapely, and will intain these quali-ossible in lined garnering some special it cost. Come and traw hats at| one-lar price.LOBE.carries a number of cuts and bruises about his face and head. At this tfme there is no indication that Abbott had any part in the fight although he was with the other boys.As near as can be learned Abbott Vas in company with Elmer Wilson, Frank Craig and Isaac Wright. There may have been others but this seems to have been the crowd of the Roanoke boys and in some way a little difficulty arose among the boys which resulted in the fight on the street. Young Wright was badly battered about the face. His eyes were black and battered as a result of the scrap.Soon after this, the McKinzie boys called at the Hauber feed bam to secure their rig and seemed in a fit of nervousness. Each had picked up a coat and started to the bam when they discovered that they had some of the other boys coats. These they threw aside and took their rig immediately from the bam. Soon after this the other boys were seen going westward toward the bridge.According to the statements made by Wilson to some of the people who came along after the man had been pulled out of the stream, he had found Abbott in a pool of blood, and had dragged him upon the bank thinking that he was a drunk man in the creek and left him lying on the bank to sober up. Fearing that the man might have been injured, he and his wife went back and found that the man was dying from wounds in his neck.The alarm was given, and Dr. S. V. Wilking was soon upon the scene. Immediately the body was removed to the heme of the young man's mother, Mrs. Abner Allred. In the north part of town. Before the removal of the man to his home he died. From the large gash in the right Bide of his neck, the blood had gushed and formed a pool in the stream until it had sapped his blood from his arteries. Ity had not lain there■ istream as the long.Word was sent to this city for the coroner and later when the evidence pointed to foui play, the prosecutor was sent for but neither of them went to the scene until nearly noon today.People were startled this morning when they heard, as they went to their work, of the terrible tragedy and every business man in the town was interested in seeing what the I rouble was. At first all of the reports indicated that the man had been sitting upon the banister of the bridge aud fallen into the water which was cr.ly a few inches deep at that place. Jusc at the point where his neck lay, at h?-.“at, within a few inches of th«» ;la e was a broken beer bottle which the iirst conclusion of the people made responsible for the ghastly cut in the man's neck.Later the^probability of its having been done in a fight seemed the more plausible as the man's skull showed that he had been hit with an instrument across the head. The wound on the top of his head extends nearly from the forehead to the middle portion of his head. This is just an ebra-sion caused by the head and some object coming in contact with some force. Other marks, that indicate at least that there had been trouble just previous to the time Abbott was found in the creek, are on the head and face. There was a small cut In the face below the right eye as if he had been struck with som^ heavy instrument, that did not have a sharp point On the top of the head near the left side is a wound very mudft like a knife stab. His body was not wounded in any place.No marks of blood are seen about the bridge that would indicate the scrap took place there if there was a later scrap. There are several pools of blood near the side of the embankment just south erf the bridge where it is said, he bled when dragged up the bank.No word was heard from the men at Mahon who had taken a part in the fight earlier in the night at the comer. Blood stains mark the spot where it occurred and besides this, Wright shows that it was not a small affair.Elmer Wilson declined to be interviewed saying that he had but little to tell and he would tell that to the authorities when the proper time arrived for him to tell it He said that it would not require^ much time for him to UUJt bat that he did not care to make any more statements of the
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Huntington Weekly News Democrat
Huntington, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 24, 1906
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