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• \ U..Prom tbe Charleston Journal. Jan nary 1.]The Barter mi Mr. Ai aaati earLast week we merely called attention to tbe fact that Mr. Calvin Armitrong' reeiding at SiasonviHt, in thia county, bad been murdered. We are now prepared to give a statement of the particulars of tbe horrible crise.Mr. Armstrong is a tanner by trade, but for tbe past few years baa been engaged in mercantile pursuits. He bad a store at Sissonrilie, in Poca township, where he has resided lor a year or two paet, and was doing a lucrative business.I We have knowD him for years, in fact he has been an intimate friend ever since we can remember. He was an intelligent, quiet and good citizen, and had t many friends. In the long time that we have known him we Dever heard ot his having a personal difficulty with any one. He was by nature quiet—just the opposite of boisteronsness and boasting. Hence to bear of him being murdered in a personal fight with a ruffian shocked us, as it did all of his friends. We could Dot for a time comprehend it.Several days before be was murdered, Mr. Armstrong observed to a friend that some one had been stealing his chickens, and that he bad a pretty good idea who it was, and that be intended to watch him in tbe fntnre; he, however, mentioned no names. On Saturday, December 21, Calvin Arthur, a shoemaker of Siasonville, parsing by a sbed near his store, where Mr Armstrong was engaged trimming some hides, and calling him to the fence told him that be understood be had charged him with stealing h's chickens. Mr. Armstrong very quietly told him that he had doDe do such thing. Whereupon Arthur replied, that if he had be was a d—d liar Mr. Armstrong, to vindicate his honor, knocked Arthur down, striking nim with his fist. One or two men being present, inter ered and parted them Mr. Armstrong resumed his work, and Arthur went up to Mr. Xewhouse s saloon, a short distance above where the fight took place, where he took a drink or two. and it is said bv some that be intimated il Armstrong had said he stole ins chickens he would fix him for it, something to that amount.Mr. Armstrong, not feeling satisfied, took of!' bis coat aDd walked up in front of the saloon, and upon seeing Arthur, at once became excited, walked into the saloon, and struck and knocked Artbnr down. The men who were present again interfered and partially separated them, but one ferocious individual, who seemed to have no sense or reason, ordered bystanders to stand back, and 1st them met fight.” Thiethev did, and Mr Armstrong, while on top o! Arthur, was stabbed to the heart with a shoe knife producing instant death.We are verv frank in paying that a halt dozen or more men who would stand qu etly by and see one man murder another ought to be indicted and prosecuted tor being accessory to the greatest crime in law.Mr. Armstrong leaves a wife and three children, all ot whom loved him dearly.Mr Arthur is now m the Charleston jail
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Wheeling Daily Register
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Mon, Jan 13, 1873
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