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1)P!bydrlt;triMiCtlea♦V\t€BiMuhif.h at F03XKKBCRO. We learnfrom the Al’on Telegraph that a light N#*11*'' at Fosterburg, in this county,*o the 3.1 instant, resulting ,iu the death of Frederick Miller, a German, and that Joseph Arbuckle, a colored man, was murdered after being ai rested for tho killing of Miller. The scene of the tight was at a sale, and the parties were bidding on a hoi se.The colored man wanting the horse, and probably having more money than the white men, they I'he white men) coticlu led t * drive the “nipper away, and “pUMieft Into’ him accordingly. *The negro itodd up for his rights a , i*i short tune, knocking three of them down; and j then seeing he would get the worst of the bargain, started and ran. He ran about a quarter „f a’ mile, and, giving out, turned upon those who were pursuing him with axes, shovels and forks, and fired, killing Miller aud wounding another man (an Irishman) dangerously. The pursuing party then closed in, arrested the negro, and beat and pounded bun so severely that he has since died. 110 was knocked down au l stamped upon by three or four men until the blood gushed from his nose and ears. From the verdict of the jury rendered at the inquest held over the body of Arbuckle, it looks as though a combination had been formed Tor the purpose of keeping back the facts iu the case. We trust the grand jury will feel called upoa to make a searching inquiry into the whole of this atTair, and that the guilty parties shall be made to suffer tho penalty of tho law. Malow wo give theverdict of tho Jury:Wo, the Jury summoned by P. P. K pan, coroner of Madison county, to hold an inquest over the body of Joseph Arbuckle, do ftud from the evidence produced that be caiue to bis death from Mow* received afler hi* arrest by persons unknown to the Jury. JOHN I). D!LLOM» Fosterburg, March 7, 1866 Foreman.e7H, *
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The Madison County Courier
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 15, 1866
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