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).itor.s. mojDder,tionIonsun-.I.111inttouIPS-iveb-n*foredr-veheATTwo Killed in Crap Game, j'Tuck Winnigham and Del Sax* son, both white men aud reti* dents of Mississippi, were shot j and killed at Warnerton, La., ten 0 miles north of here, Sunday af- jj ternoon, by Tom Beach. The 8 tragedy occurred on the third £ floor of a gin owned by John !a Pierce, where a crowd of boys gl and young men had collected,presumably for a crap name. It 0; has not been learned here just u how the difficulty arose. It ^ seems that Saxson and Beach w were the principals first involved, and that Winningham went to in the rescnre of his friend, Saxson. w Beach, who is now lodged in jail here, claims that Saxson was' advancing on him with a piece of timber when he (Beach) fired, and that Winmngham then began . firing at him. Both men were ^ killed almost instantaneously,1, Neither spoke after being shot, . and died almost at the same +lt;ime.The coroner and sheriff went } immediately to the scene, and an ?Ioninquest was held Monday. L ____________________to
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The Era Leader
Franklinton, Louisiana, US
Thu, Mar 23, 1911
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