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A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.A Little GU Otttraged-Ibe Pwtrs-* tor9M and Hanged 1* the *nb.he—H-Jall lal—II4*whe |dea*ed and do as he pleased. The man knocked him down Immediately, and some other one struck him with a poker, and In a minute all was In con-iuilou and darkness, the light having been put out. Noname managed to creep under the sea Is, and getaway from them, so that they bad to light up again In order to find him. When they dW, they dragged him out Into the street, and while doing so three shots were fired at him, some of which hit him. They then took him outride the town.aud hung him up to • uee, and put four more shots Into hit body. He was left hanging there, but some one during the night had take* Masdotr*, and hauled his body about a half mile and threw it over into Holmes county, where the body was found Monday morning. While taking him tothe tree he was sensible, and begged them to let him live a while iouger. against him in that sociieaof 1 try was most terribly hitter, so often before been guilty of nous deeds. It waa a mod ^of dealing with a man or even human wreU'lt as he was, bus the community breath freer since hi* death. He was by far the most dangerous man that ever set foot in this county. ITe was confined some weeks in our county jail, and bad repeated by threatened that be uuiiM -out-tho heart out of the sheriff.” He ako threatened to bum the town, which he might have done, in some fu-lunetiuie had he lived. It was reported that the iltile girl had dtaJ, but we learn that this is not correct, but that she k severely injured.-r-eaiA \Satin—M .lay. ler toJ.J a bug on SaTwo weeks ago wc gave an account of the C'v-ajKr of one “John Xouame” from the tV ouster Jail where he bad bean (Confined for some offence. Since then we had heard nothing of the ertni wbereaUmisof this noted criminal, till Monday. when word was brought to Miller-burg that lie had been at his old tricks in Tuscarawas county. It seems that one day last week, he had gone to the bouse of some man, a few miles from JLigersville, and, boding no one at borne except two little girls, tied the youtiger one and outraged the person of the older sister, about nine years of age. When the father of the girls returned home, and found out the situation of affair*, he in com pony with neighbors, started after the wretch, and on Saturday about noon or a little alter, found him a short distance south of Neweoinerstown in bed at the house of some our, whose name we did not learn, pretending to be sick. They brought him back to Hager*vdie. and intended to try him before the Justice of the Peace. He was tim takeu to the hotel aiHl his nipper given him, alter which he wa* taken to tjie School House, where the trial was to hekl. Wklla arranging prellmlnaH-s, and waiting for witnesses to arrive, some one, whose wile Noname had groaely instilled some time ago, went up to him and asked him why he had gone to Ids house and insulted hU wife in the mauner lie did.Non.nine answered that It waa none of lik bud uca*;-that he would go wh(014 .« h* TK. U*Ul 1—I if the dean—T bring heal tl—T year. They—S oocasitheirSev our F.This!the Is—W um lt;Hie hi elseu-l—D your Dr. V teeth.—T fbhlie—H make«uccw 1st, 2.—T! days«ter s. it ha*-Mwar y pie oiBatterThe Very Best.
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Holmes County Republican
Millersburg, Ohio, US
Thu, Jul 31, 1873
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