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BENT JONES' THROAT CUTIn a Fight at Mitchell Sunday Over anOld DebtBedford Mail.At Mitchell, Ute Sunday afternoon,Bent Joue* and John Dawson got into a row over a small amount of money which Jones claimed Dawson owed him. Both were drinking. Junes, it seems, drew a revolver and attempted to shoot Dawson, who grabbed the pistol with one hand and slashed a knife across Tones' throat with the other;Jones was hadly hurt. He was ■I need under the charge of surgeons, w ho succeeded in stopping the flow of•dood and sewing np the wound; bnfr luring the night Jones got drunk again4iid tore the stitches out of: (lie wound,which renewed blooding. He ia in aprecarious condition today.Dawson was brought over in a buggy, •rritlng here about 11 .o'clock last uigbt; and is uow in jail. He is a ’•leckswith and is about 55 years of age.Bent Jones is well knots to tbe people of Southern Indiana. He is fcqth intelligent and vicious and in his orime terrorised the south part of this •ouuty. Though .now old, and shorn of de prestige, he is still a dangerous man:o quarrel with.,
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Orleans Progress
Orleans, Indiana, US
Thu, Oct 27, 1898
Page 4
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Robert M.
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