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MAN SHOT BY SAM COULTER FEB, 13TH PASSES AWAY AT 9:20 MONDAY NIGHT—COULTER IN JAIL CHARGED WITH MURDERHEARING NEXT FRIDAYDEctheSt.hogmav.herfoil a n theTuesday’s DailyFrank Beagle,twenty-eight yearsof age, oF Springhill, who was shot in a revolver duel with Sam Coulter on Saturday night, February 13th, after lingering eight days, died at 9:20 Monday night. Death was due to gangrenous poison, and an autopsy held this morning revealed the fact that the entire intestines had mortified.Sam Coulter, who had been out on a $2,000 bond,pending Beagle’s condition, was arrested this morning, and the charge of shooting With intent to commit murder changed to one of murder. This ^ charge does not permit a bail, and after a hearing at the ci:v court to determine a date for a preliminary, Coulter was taken to jail.PRELIMINARY HEARING.Deputy State’s Attorney William F. Robbins, who filed the affidavit against Coulter which charged shooting with malice and premedi-iAFouaftitoxtannothehirChDoseeantthrshe■jerattficttonoiha’thrplacattation, is to be assisted by Thomas IE. Davidson , who has been em-iployed by relatives of the dead! ^ man to assist flie State in the pros-1 'ecution, Tremain Turner and ^Osborn • Hamilton have been retained by* Coulter.On arraignment this morning before Mayor Mendenhall, Coulter’s attorneys insisted upon an itnme-•diate hearing, to which the State’s attorneys objected on the grounds • they were not ready for trial, and also it would be inhuman to have the relatives of Beagle come into - court at a time before his corpse had been interred. Mayor Mendenhall set the preliminary bearing for Friday morning at ten o’clock. Coulter, after a brief consultation with his attorneys in the mayor’s office,- went to his place of business, accompanied by Chief Johnson, and procured a box of cigars before he started to the jail,THE DEATH Dl’KI,.The shooting in which Beagle received mortal wounds, took place on Railroad street near the old ex* press office, Saturday a week ago at eight o’clock in the evening* and is said to have been the result of a previous misunderstanding between the two men. Earlier in the evening Beagle had entered Coulter’s place, had been ordered out, and is said to have fired one shot at Coulter after steppfog out on the sidewaik.How the two men met dateivlt;ais a mutter .the.court must deter-\mine for boil: have told dieyenttraS:c a 1-afreraiWbu■AtRc*trin*tr-she;tbithlt;britinDUOilfrestories. Suffice it to say a£ this! Rotime Coulter,fired three shots ,gnd* • iBeagle one.. . Beagle went to ,a physician's office, and later taken to jail and cared for by Dr. T. B. , Gullefer, and spam time afterwardsT i • 'Coulter was ar nee ted. He remained.in jail until Sunday about eleven o’clock when he procured bond and was releasedUK MOVED. TO HOME.Beagle was remo.ed to his home♦on the John Greer farm at al.out the same Lime Coulfor secured hisliberty. He had gained strength■under the physician's administrations. His wounds ccpisisted of one in the right limb between the knee and the hip and through the right hip ayd the groin. This bullet entered from the back, bruised \ » •the intestines and came out. gt the groin and from its course .y/as .thought exceedingly dangerous Jfrr (Continued'on page six.)finTb\V'm-oftac1casMrforplavieiiplt;ShiwilofJWlt;peg
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Greensburg News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Feb 26, 1915
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