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imelayketA on lal-. of mdre-Db-flictenthe)U8ier-theideirdtomd the ■ a r»n-*er-M’d11V•ies, ere u r-le, ae-rd-ii d-?ht inlenanates county, Missouri. 1 sup|H»slt;* it will nearly kill my mother. All I want is justice. If you consider I should hang, hang me.I am a young man. My father died when I was young. My mother was a widow, and I had to Mi)i|ort the family. My father got robbed and burned out during the war. I would like to have some of these gentlemen that can talk say something for me some Christian gentleman—talk f**r me. I only ask justice.To HIS MOTIIBR he wrote as follows:“As 1 am now on the gallows, speaking for the last time, to you I w ill sjeak in sorrowful though firm tones. I am sorrv I have come to such an end. I know it w ill nearly kill you, hut it is my fault, not yours. Mr. Criggs will see that I am decently huried, and give you the details in the ease. Your loving and dying son—1 will send you what money I have and a lock of hair that will. I hope, have some bearing on the future life of the boys.”[Signed] W.w. Pi’BPY.Pt*KriT VMTMTIKK.Mr. Shaver of the “State Register staff on the day of the capture furnished his paper the following detailed report by telegraph:Atlantic, July 14.—The mystery surrounding the murder of Postmaster flingan at l'olk City last Tuesday night has lieen finally solved by the bloody developments of the past two days in and around Elk horn Grove, in the southeast corner of Shelby county. The sacrifice outright of a worthy citizen and the probable fatal wounding of two others, and the shooting to death of the perpetrator of the deed and narrow esea|e of his accomplice from lynching, seems to have heen the terrible but successful agent of the solution of that mystery. It is a grievous burden for the friends of the murdered and wounded men to bear, and it is to be lamented that the shedding of so much innocent blood does not clear up in the least the apparently unfathomable secret of the murdersave his o weapon. A w as elicited lt;Jates, and and murderWhile thiother out wHe was el in a short ti when scvera and heealle compelled tlt; revolver. A and searcheAnother \ was much p suited in upon the jm ball from a hand, whicl ting complei and danger*TflThe last p as Smith, a! rpm the hr large revolv calibre. Tli which kille« one small n tion.The sberil charge of II ready t * giv one side and was march* about a »|iu the processi# increase rap in the tirnhe side of the g prisoner, tin “Hang him
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 19, 1883
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