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Terrible Homicide*Our community ie agftio thrown into a fever of excitement by the intelligence that another fearful tragedy had been enacted in the town of Centerville, in this county, on laat Thuraday I evening. Tbe causes which led to the act are in substance at follows: It teems that a German Jiving in Centerville bad applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a license to sell liquors, aud that a Mr. Daniel Greathouse, in order to defeat said application, was circulating a remonstrance for signatures, which greatly offended William T. Wade, who commenced abusing Greathouse, calling him hard names, and threatening to whip him, dec., to which Greathouse retaliated, upon which Wade knocked him down; Greathouse recovered his feet and retired into a blacksmith shop near at hand, saying that he did not want to light, and evidently trying to avoid any fur-ther.difficulty; Wade, however, followed him and again struck him. Other parties immediately interfered, and a Mr. HartJy, tbe owner of the shop, ordered Wade to leave the shop, which at first he refused to do, swearing that he would not go until he got ready. Greathouse in the meantime had gone out iuto the street, seated himself on a piece of timber, and very composedly commenced trimming his fiagernails with a small pocket knife, thioking tbe difficulty so far as he was concerned was at an end; but in a few minutes M-. Wade again made his appearance, and rushing upon Greathouse knocked from his seat, and as be was in the act of jumping upon him, Greathouse struck him in the breast with his kuife, which must have penetrated near the heart, as it caused his almost immediate death.The fifteen or twenty persons who witnessed it all concur in saying that the conduct of Greathouse was forbearing, and he only acted in self defense. The decased leaves a wife and four children to regret the circumstances which led to his untimely death.Rockport Democrat.
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Tue, May 29, 1860
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