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Sheriff Price injured*The following dispatch from North Vernon appeared in the Indianapolis News, last night:8heriff Price, of Rush county, whilereturning from the Jeffersonville Reformatory, where he had escorted a prisoner, stopped at North Vernon between trains, and while at the railway station he was approached by Obed Miles, who had recently removed from Rush county, who accused the sheriff of making derogatory remarks concerning his family. The sheriff responded by knocking him down, and be, himself was struck with a club wielded by Miles’s brother, and very severely injured.Sheriff Price returned home yesterday evening, and in speaking of the affray, which took place on Saturday, makes the following statement:He was waiting for a train at North Vernon to go to Butlerville, to visit his father. He went to the station about twenty minutes before train time, and passed Obed Miles standing on the platform. Before the trouble came up, Mr. Price went over to a livery barn, and came back to the sia-tion, and while standing there Miles came up behind him and pushed him, at the same time applying vile language and threatening to kill him. Mr. Price promptly knocked Miles down, and was stooping over him to take away his revolver when Lys Miles, a brother, slipped up and dealt him two blows with a baseball bat, one on the back of the head and the other on the side of the face. Obed Mileshad regained his feet by this time, and drawiag his revolver snapped it twice at Mr. Price, who drew his revolver to defend himself.Miles and his brother were both arrested. Obed Miles was bound over to, court yesterday, on a charge of assault with iutent to kill. Sheriff Price sajs that a few months ago Miles visited Rushviile and made a demand on him for a large sum of money, which he refused to pay. He has also writtenletters to Price on the same subject.Mr. Price was not arrested, and there was no charge tiled against him at any time.*
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Rushville Tuesday Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Tue, Jan 16, 1900
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