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TOM AIKEN DEAD. LONEMcGINNIS WOUNDED ANDJAILA bloody fight took place be ting was done very quickly, the tween Tom Aiken and L ne|men ran !1 different direc'ion^,McGinnis, in the feed stab e of J. F. Weeks about 4 p. m. Wednesday. The men were at thewhen it was over, and the hulk our information comes fromvtcGinnis.After being treated by thebarn hitching up preparing to physicians, McGinnis was locked goto their homes; they were in the county jail; the writer standing talking, so says the called on him just after he was stable man, Wallace Smith, they jaded, McGinnis was all blood}and bandaged, trimbling with excitement and the horror ofdid not even appear to be quar-reling; Smith states that the ouly I af,w surroundillKS a d conditio.■words 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 | topet*jer on a HljC* ^atUnew no reason for the tight; that Aiken and Franklin Dodsonother then he ran to Weeks’sStore to get an officer over the jUI]Qpf ^ on him without warning ’phone. M. Franklin D dson jje stated, “I commenced to yell stated to the writer that he saw | for Charley Daniel, who wasthe fight, but he would not, orwith me,He stated that Aikencould not, give any information, tir^t 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, that, at the tin e three inches, about all the blood of the tight, Ai«en was stigger-in the body had run out and he iug.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 Holly 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 ihe forehead, taken iu charge by Oscar Fheh down the right cheek, one lund er, undertaker, and will be car was cut aud one badly lacerated ried to Holly Pond for burial to by running against a wagtxi. dlt;*y. McGinnis was indicted by Doctors Hartuog and Hayes at the Grand Jury today, tended him, pronounced hisi Franklin Dodson was | lacad inwounds slight and did r ot have to take any stitches. The eut-jnl Wednesday night, but was released Thursday morning.
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Fri, Oct 31, 1913
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