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•or-r-yt,)tisWashington .11111 .Madison townships; fpopulation, **,«]. waiDistrict No. i- -lt;ireanonstle town- conship; population, *’»1 IT.KNIFED TO DEATHWas Joe Albright, a Former Real- j dent of ‘his CountyJoseph Albright, a former resident, of Cloverdale township, in this county, fell a victim to the keen edge of a ready knife in Illinois, a few days,. age. His death was the result of J0.loyi reir we i a n and u m i deagivlt;theitheisome very peculiar matrimonial dealings to which the deceased was n party, the particulars thereof are recited in a special sent out from Danville, Ills., telling of his death, as follows: The killing of Joe Albright by Jesse Sutherland makes public a peculiar domestic transaction. Sutherland was driving home from a dance in a buggy with Mrs. Daisy Sheppard when Albright waylaidpi ui big! syst that thei1IIpret brin lar i weathem; Albright knocked Sutherland 8torwesi1stcoolchaito the ground with a stone and the prostrate man got out his knife.After a further struggle Albright fell unconscious with a number of gashes in his throat. Sutherland took Mrs.! tottc Sheppard home and then surrender-ed. It is said that Joe Albright, who -was married and hud two children, purchased Mrs. Sheppard from her 10Hai husband, Charles Sheppard, at. andFro i otheGeneva, near Clinton, Ind., last fall for and a new hat, and that Albright at once moved into the Sheppard house. Sheppard afterward regretted the trade and, going to his former home, opened fire on the inmates, bring five shots. Three of the bullets took effect in Albright’s body and one in Mrs. Sheppard’s limb. Last Christmas Albright came to Grape Creek. Mrs. Sheppard followed shortly afterward. She Is 20 years old and very pretty.andaugifullyand17threacloweto 2;teueappithestoroccu
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Greencastle Star Press
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Sat, May 06, 1899
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