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ihonse should be erected JOU SoUpllOUHC.late Transfer#.transfers of real es-filed with the county rd:* Win. W. Yng«*r.40A’UMhip.............* 923 37ii Flora Hawkins.orntown...........Tax TitleJus. C. Smith, lot................ 1 .KM) 00i Elliot M. Perkins, viishlp............. 105 00m) to Nellie Wee«l-M Cross' 1th add 100 12O. Busby, lof 25miioii ..... 17fi 00,trick FUzgibbon, ................. 175 00ah E. Pol ro. lttlitownship......... 1,500 00rolhu* Itobortson,i'h add Lebanon . 1.200 00 Barlow, lots 30.31.Kersey Jb Trnvv-iioii................ 500 00)11 11 ■ ■ ■ ** * * 1 wnil’s AlUliHp.iiug as Dr. D. C. Scull uin street, near Park , he was run over by a young son of J. M. ig very rapidly. The wn to the ground, and location of his left several bruises. The tunste, as the Doctor jvered from his sick-rear,and this injury is tin on him. The acci-warning to l«oys who )f riding through the neck speed.uae Hog Sato.Id one hundred Poland ursday, at his home of Thorntowu, at an t $18 per head. The tered all over this sec-The prices run from ill Paugh, of Fafay-ale at the last named se‘s sales are always The sale took place and Col. Moftitt didWesuer, as follows;Jim Livingston «hot im*. Turned both barrels loose Shot me with a shotgun. I did not say a word to him. Doing nothing. I am going to die. 1 was not doing anything. I started In the,house to see if my wife was Chert*. Did not say a word. Had the gun behind the door; reached back and got the gun. He said. “I told you 1 would lire you if you came down any more. Did not have any weapon; did not attempt to strike him. No one was present. I did not say a word. He just got the gun. He says, “1 told you I would tlx you if you came down any more. I says;“Jim.you have killed me,and he says, ‘*1 don't give a damn.Chhistian H. Wen nek.This concluded the evidence in chief for the state, and Capt. R. \V. Harrison made the opening statement for the defense, in which lie saitl that they expected to prove that the murder was done in self defense.The first witness was Rebecca Livingston, young daughter of the defendant. She said Wesuer had threatened to kill her father, and had boasted of his nerve and determination. She said when llanse came to their home just before the tragedy her father warned him twice not to come; that his wife and children were not there. She told of quarrels between Wesner aud her father previous to the tragedy, one wherein Wesner used a knife on her father.Mrs. Eva May Wesner, wife of the victim of the tragedy, and daughter of the defendant, was the next witness. She was married to Wesner, March 17, 1893, and has two children by him. Mrs. Wesner said her husband had threatened to shoot her father full of holes; that he told her he had shot through her father's house, firing the first shot to scare and the other two to kill. She recited the trouble between Hanse and her father in 1893, when Hanse cut her father with a her father was not to blame, simply came to her rescue, having made a movement as if to kill her with the knife. Hanse s^id to her about six weeks before the tragedy,referring to her father: “I went after him once, and the next time 1 go after him I will get him/' jknife; as he Hanse
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Lebanon Pioneer
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 25, 1894
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