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room. «»-— THE WILD MAN CAUGHT.We learn that Phelps an abandoned villian, who lias committed several robberies, and murdered a citizen of Vicksburg; has at length been secured. For some time past he has been wandering over tire country, and although the blackness of his crimes was a matter of public notoriety, yet a consciousness of his desperate character deterred those who saw him from attempting his capture. A few daj s since Phelps entered a house in Yazoo county, and demanded his dinner, the owner of the house an old man about 70 years ofags being ab* sent but whilst he was glutting himself with the good things of the house, the old man entered the door and 6trikfng the formidable intruder, a most tremendous blow with the breech of hi? gun, felled him to the floor. Repeating his stroke, he soon stunned the robber sufficiently to b»nd him with a cord, Phelps is iii Vicks'mrgh jail.
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Logansport Canal Telegraph
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1834
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