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A Mtsterioui An-air.—On Saturday | evening shortly sfter the arrival oI the train from Washington over the Honpfleld railroad, an elderly man who gtvo the name cf Hugh Harris, was found at the corner of the Hempfleld railroad and Main aireet, near Loecher*a notion store, bleeding profusely from a wound over tho left 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 from tho train at that point and was injured by the fall, but this was evidently not the caao, as he was seen setting thsre.bofore the tralu arri ved.by vs-rious persona. As the old gentleman was considerably under the inflacncocf liquor, and hi* brain somewhat fuddled, it is more than probablo that ho received the wound by u fall on the pavement, or the wound might have been made by a billy In the bands of snmo rufllso for the purpose of robbery. Upon examination it was found that this was the only wound upon Lis person which would not have been the result bad he fallen from the train. When lakeu to tho barber shop a stream of blood about as large m a knit-: ting needle was spurting from the wound, j Mr. Harris w9 carried to tho boose of some relatives in Bast Wheeling, his home being t the Four Mile House in Ohio.
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Mon, Nov 25, 1872
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