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toI ui nit- law.ve-redSHOT DEAD.in. Murder ia Montgomery—Edward Watkinsir, Kills “Buq” TrailDispatch to the TimkoGaitubb3Bi*kg, Md., June 6.W hit Monday was the scene of amurder in the neighborhood oft)r I Gaithersburg, and last Monday theus i.____iL.upvillage of Middlebrookscene of another crime of the samecharacter. The parties engaged?rn | the affair were “Ed.” Watkins and“Bad” Trail. It seems that two men were very fond of a Mra. rn Norwood who lives on the farm of‘e“| L. L. Watkins, and a great deal ofjealousy hud * xisted between them.P*j Some wn :.s ago Trail wbipjiedWatkins, and bad feeling has existed since. Monday Trail went toRockville to £ret a warrant for W*t.idkins for carrying a concealed weap-8»{on, and as he had not sufficientground to procure ^ I Rockville direct todNorwood8 ant house on the place. He wasordered off by Mr. Watkins and bisremarkede on the fence, that he would put up % five dollars and fight “Ed’' Wat-1 kins if he would come out in the1face to pieceslie was again ordered to leave, when«• 1 L —. . # A 1 mhe sprang from the fence, makingfor “Ed” Watkins, who-an. Thenturning on Trail he fired four shotsat* a* * mm —.at him, three taking effect; one en-% ... . . »lerjrig the lelt shouMir. tea,'; rVreaaf’S* ?J the °‘^rWt of bin11Isstomacn. . m died in aboutten miuuti MiearA jury of inquest was held and a,. . « l* - n v__• iverdict was brought in that Trailcatne to his death by a pistol shotused in the hands of “Ed.” Watkins. “Ed.’ Watkins is the son ofW. L. L. W atkins, a prominent andww « — -W; —--jr —wealthy miller ami farmer of this'ft' * i \ ft . %fL‘county. He is a handsomeabout 20 years old, and is wellknown throughout Montgomerycountv
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Cumberland Daily Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Wed, Jun 06, 1888
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