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TUB KEV. THOMAS. VLILI^VMS RI1IHDERED ON THE KNOX * AND BELT; CO. LINE~ Tho news has just reached tlvisj office, giving Ibo particulars of the murder of the Kcv. Tom Williams, wh owas killed, on Brush mountain aome days ago. Ho was waylaid and robbed on the Brush mountain, on the line that Beparatds Bell, and Knox counties. Isom, Aiidy and Berry Lawson nephews of tho murdered man are In tlie Bavl/oursviUe jail charged with the crime and denied bond. Mr. . William's’ first wife was a Lawson,’but she has beendead for some years, and a few’ weoks• ago the Hey.‘Williams took unto Him• aclf ' a young wife, a Miss Lewis_of Beil‘county, and who la left .a widow at the early age of.17, for she was, a.young girl at the time of the nicr-rlSfcf. . ‘The cause of the murder .has not ■ yet: beon ascertained, but there bad ... been hard feelings between the par-lieu for sometime!/ and at the time ; qr-the killing, the preaelier,was supposed to have- a large amount of jno'ney on bis person, as he was con-‘r-flldered ‘a wealthy man,* und it - lu. thought the estate he left will run mi In thrt nnltrhhnvhnorl.nf one him-
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Middlesboro Pinnacle News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Thu, Jul 19, 1917
Page 3
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TN, USA 29 May 2018
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