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VOL. 13. NO. 24.TOM AIKEN DEAD. LONEMcOINNIS WOUNDED ANDJAILA bloody fight took place be ting was done very quickly, the tween Tom Aiken and L »ne men ran’!1 diffeient directions,McGinnis, in the feed stab e of J. P. Weeks about 4 p. m. Wednesday. The men were at ihewhen it was over, and the hulk our information comes from vicGinnis.After being treated by thebarn hitching up preparing to physicians, McGinnis was lockedMM I I gVijV ^'r'% Jgoto their homes; they were in the county jail; the writer standing talking, so says the called on him just after he wasStable man, Wallace Smith, they | jaded, McGinnis was all bloodyand bandaged, trimbling witht-xcitement and the horror ofdid not even appear to be quarreling; Smith states that the ouly af,w surroundini{8 a, d conditiowords he heard were spoken by He stated that the dead man ai d*Aiken who asked McGinnis, he were good friends, that *they“What do vou want”, that they were planning to go to Georgiathen commenced cutting each aether onavi.it and that heother then he ran to Weeks’sUn-w no reason for the tight; that Aiken and Franklin Dodsonstore to get an officer over ^'^e jump€ ^ on tiim withLOuc Warnin^? ’phone. M. Franklin Dt dson jje stated, *‘I commenced to yell stated to the writer that he saw for Charley Daniel, who was the fight, but he would not, or with me,” He stated that Aiken could not, give any information, slapped him.At 5 p. m. the writer reached I McGinnis stated that Franklin the front of Week’s store saw Dodson had cursed him out in Aiken lying on the ground in Copeland Schiele’s saloon his last peaceful moments; his early in the afternoon. Thar all jugular vein had been slit for weie drinking, thar, at the tin e three inches, about all the blood of the tight, Ai«en wbj sttgger-in the body had run out and he ing.expired without a twitch of a I The dead man, Tom Aiken, muscle. Aiken had not realized lived one and one half miles that he was fatally cut, he ran north west of Holiy Pond, Me-from the barn to the street in Ginnis four miles south. Aiken front of Week’s store and fell, had a wife and six children. He never spoke about the fight, | McGinnis a wife and three child-so far as we could learn. McGin-1 ren. The body of Aiken was nis was cut across the forehead, taken iu charge by Oscar Fit-eh down the right cheek, one lund er, undertaker, and will be car was cut aud one badly lacerated ru-d 10 Holly Pond for burial to by running against a wagon. d.*y. McGinnis was indicted by Doctors Hartuog and Hayes at the Grand Jury today, tended him, pronounced hisi Franklin Dodson was j laced inwounds slight and did r ot have to take any stitches. The eut-jill Wednesday night, but wasreleased Thursday morning.
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Fri, Oct 31, 1913
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