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TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY.A Contractor Murdered by Italians—One of Hia Assassins Hanged and the OtherShot.Louisville, Ky , June_25.—A special to the Evening* Times gives the following particulars of a triple tragedy in Bell County, Ky.: G. W. Norwood, of Birmingham, Ala, a contractor on the Cumberland Yalley extension, was murdered Saturday at his camp, near Cumberland Gap, by an Italian known as Tony Cravasso. Tony and his brother were bakers at the Bouth end of Cumberland Gap tunnel and had sold bread to some of Norwood’s men and had requested him to hold the men’s pay till they could collect their bills. Norwood told them that he could not withhold the men’s pay excopt on a garnishee, and directed the Italians to a magistrate. Saturday they oalled on Norwood and asked if ho had their money He told them he did not have any money for them, and walked out of the commissary store and entered a cabin adjoining Just as he stepped into the door Tony, who had followed him, shot him in the back, killing him almost Instantly. The Italians escaped to the woods, but they were captured Saturday night in Tennessee. They were brought to Kentucky Sunday and were being conducted to the Pineville jail when Judgo Lynch took charge of them, and gave them a trial resulting lu the hanging of the elder Tony, and the sending of the brother to jail. The officers started for Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and as they were traveling along the road aWinchester rifle cracked on-the mountain-Bide and the prisoner -felt in ttro road a corpse.n I I I ftk i • a a
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Harvard Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 29, 1889
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