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MUBDEB AT OEDAB LAKE.As the evening train was leaving Cedar Lake last Sunday, some five or six of the parties became engaged in a quarrel about a confidence game, which they had been playing, whenthe winner of the money, who was also a gamble? of the first water, un-derstandingltiie game(the nut andoneyMill«i^Qrdered to leave ittl?e*lo08*er to without anotherword producing afatal wodiqvjjf which he died while the train wSiftDyer. The names of the parties I are unknown. Efforts were made to leain the name of the man who didj but his friend wouldnot give it. Several shPie were exchanged and two or three of the parties were wounded, but not seriously.Is.it not about time that a halt was called on thfcae beer-6elling Sunday picnics? The first thing the tax payer knows he will have a murder trial in the county costing several thousand dollars, on account of the open and notorious violation of the law every Sunday’, by parties from outside the state, whc^cdme into the state in the inorning aid leave iu the evening If this matter is attended to, it can certainly be stopped.
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Crown Point Register

Crown Point, Indiana, US

Thu, Jul 08, 1886

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