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Sheriff Price Injured*The following dispatch from North Vernon appeared in the Indianapolis News, last night:Sheriff Price, of Rush county, while returning 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 he, himself was struck with a club wielded by Miles’s brother, and veryseverely 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 vint 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. Piice weut over to a livery barn, and came back to the station, and while standing there Miles came up behind him and pushed him, at the same time applying vile language and threatening to kill himMr. 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 Miles had regained his feet by this time, and drawing 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 intent to kill. Sheriff'Price says that a few months ago Miles visited Rushville and made a demand on him for a large Bum of money, which he refused to pay. He has also written letters 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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