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prowls in its vicinity. Sojourner.atQe j Tragic Career.ellra,rigily*h«ehrtvhe so wsor* heL*se irs,ue.ts;hi!U• i'!thi]jht•at*iveon1msinrev | [Special to the Cincinnati Commercial:! te]iel j GEoBOKTowif, O, May 24.—The body of Cc •st-1 Edward Young, who commuted suicide at! bt Memphis, Tenn., was brought back to this place, and on yesterday interred in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery. Edward Young, it will atsi be remembered, is the man who, on one id night in March of 1881, and killed IraId I George Ashmore and Clinton Cam pbell. and ho sly seriously wounded James Ah more, ii# atac he grocery store at this plaoe, an ac ! m y 's count of which appeared in the Commercial at that time. Young was arrested and two indictments for mmder in the first degree, and one for shooting with intent to kill, were fouud against him. The first trial on the indictment for murder in the first degree, for $he killing of Clinton Campbell, ended ill acquittal. The second trial for the! killing of George Ashmore, resulted again | in a verdict of “not guilty.” and Young was|^ released ou bail, lie theu left Georgetown aud has been away the greater part of the time, being in Cincinnati, where he was attending Nelson's Business *11 ege. On last snt Saturday morning W. W. Young, father ol aid Edward, received a telegram from Major C.H. Blackburn, of Cincinnati, who was one of the attorneys for the defense, stating that a man registered as Edward Young, of Georgetown, had been found dead at the Worsham Hotel, in Memphis, Tenn. Further investigation established the fact that the body found was that of Edward Young, of Georgetown, beyond a doubt, and the Chief of Police of Memphis was instructed to forward the body to this place. Yesterday, as stated above, the remains were brought to this place, and immediately interred in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, One indictment—that of shooting with intent o kill James Ashmore—still remained against Yeung, and was to have been tried at this term of Court Young was a bright intelligent youth of about nineteen years of age, and was the son of W. W. Young, an attor-1 bei ney of this place. He arrived at Memphis his I just a week ago yesterday, and registered at r to / the Worsham Hotel. He was not seen after the day he came there, and two or three days afterward pe was discovered in his room lying on the bed in advanced state of decomposition. A morphine bottle on a table close by the bed told the tale.s a•us,ose 1 ofiae.iveas for ave ght i an. cit-tien •omRe-tore )e— . orirhidcluuCEcavP81Ina-ot aK)thihipId’srery\n al IaafavI11lt;POINTERS
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New Albany Daily Tribune
New Albany, Indiana, US
Wed, May 31, 1882
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