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Terrible Homicide*Our community i* again thrown into a feverof excitement by the intelligence that another fearful tragedy had been enacted in the town of Centerville, in this county, on U*t Thursday evening. The causes which led to the act are ] in substance as follows: It seems that a German Jiving in Centerville bad applied to the lioard of County Commissioners for a license I to sell liquors, and that a Mr. Daniel Great-1 I bouse, in order to defeat said spplioation, wail 'circulating a remonstrance for signatures, I which greatly offended William T. Wade, who I commenced abusing Greathouse, calling him j 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, aaying that he did not want to light, and evidently trying to avoid any further,difficulty; Wade, however, followed him I and again struck him. Other parties im- j mediately interfered, and a Mr. HartJy, I the 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 into the street, seated himself on a piece of timber, and very composedly commenced trimming hie fiagernails with a small pocket knife, thioking the difficulty so far as he was concerned was at an end; but in a few minutes M-. Wade again made his appearance, and ■'ushing 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 theheart, as it caused hia almost immediate death.The fifteen or twenty persons who witnessed it all concur in sayin^ that the conduct of Greathouse was forbearing, and be only acted , in self defense. The decased leaves a wife and four children to regret the circumstances which led to his untimely death. 1Rockport Democrat.
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Tue, May 29, 1860
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