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A Mmxaioui Atvair.—On fiaturdsy evening shortly after the arrival of the train from Washington over the Hempfleld railroad, an elderly man who gave the name of Hugh Harris, was lound at the corner ot the Hempfleld railroad and Main street, near Loecher’a notion store, bleeding profusely from a wound over the lelt eye The old gentleman was picked up and carried into Gibson's barber shop, and a physician called to attend to him. Mr. Harris said be had been up to Washington and Jumped Irom tbo train at that point and was injured by the fall, but this was evidently not the case, as he was seen setting tbcre.belore the train arrived,by various persons. As the old gentleman was considerably under the inflaenco of liquor, and his brain somewhat fuddled, it is more than probable that ho received the wound by a fall oo the psvemcnt, or the wound might hsvc been made by a billy In the hands of *mno rufllau lor the purpose of robbery. Upon examination It was found I bat this was the only wound upon Lis ptntou which would not hsvo been the result had ho fallen Irom the train. When taken to the barber shop a stream of blood about as largo as a knitting needle was spurting from the wound. Mr. Harris was carried to the house of somo relatives in East Wheeling, his home belmr 11 the Pour Milo TTrniio in HMn
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Mon, Nov 25, 1872
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