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I ken home and medical airl immediatelyculKnl, hut he died between |o and 11oVliH-k that evening. A post mortem examination wan made hv l-• t -rs Wise, !Thoms, Dulitiiy, and Major. They tfound the skull brnkon, and took rlir J and a fourth ounces of r tabulated blood t from under ii near the immediate- jly outside of fids the print of I \,rt- (man s bo.it-heel. 'fhlt; re were aJv,* marks 1 *if his lead-o i thr n,, k, shoulders, and lt;side, and the collarbone and some of the . ribs broken; but, as the medial men were satisfied that the injury in the head was the caus*. , dblf( death,'they did not I pursue the examination further.^ oUieg i*-ts t * * 11 Would have been twelveyears old tooiay. He is described as avery intelligent and promising lad, mild in his miu.fi-r, and, fora lad, quite dignified in his deportment.Turfman, tin- murderer, is 2(5 years of age. He is a largo man, full six fuel high, weighing over 2U0 pounds. He has a wife and two cihdroti, but the lt;b*r-man lad referred to .Above was not his m»ii. He luis rather a mild rountetiam e, but is described as a man of violent anduncontrollable temper. About a month Mnee he bad a slight difficulty with hisfather-in-law. and in a lit of' rage gavehim a severe thrashing. Ib* k****]*s a grocery store on the winter of Sixth and * nog sir,., tw, and, with the ♦ veepti.n of his * iol«*ut tlt; mper, is no* regarded as ahad man.Immediately after the injury to his•“■a, Mr. Kastoii repaired io Portman’sgnN .-ry, armed with n elub, and wouldhave intiM-te-il a severe chastisement upon 11 **u but f*,r the lemon*.trances of Ids( h^iMon ) friends, liul afterwards, when an indignant «tlt;»wc! collected around 1 “i (mail house, Mr. huston exhortedthem tu do no violence. His son was
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Danville Kentucky Tribune
Danville, Kentucky, US
Fri, Oct 13, 1854
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