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TEtllBU AFFAIR.Markka I Tom Smith, of AMIw. Mur..IffwLHIh Hr*4 k (’■lt; off with an Axr.Wr Ifam from Capt. Hanks, of the Kan-j Pacific, of the Mt, on Wrfiliiij ItRt, I «*f Tom Smith, City Marshal of Abilene, \ under the folio* mg circtrni*ance*: Reeeiv- Iing information that two fuen whom lie deni red n» arrest were to he found on Chapman’* Creek, aliowt Afire* mile* diaUut from Abilene, he repaired to tl»e *|*»i and fmind the parties lie wae looking for. Tlier resided arrest, and, while tlie officer was struggling with one of tlieni, the other aeiaed an axe and, it is aapjsisrd, while Kmith wm in a stooping iBMitioa, struck hint on the hack of the neck, completely severing his head from hist bndv. Neither of the rnen liare rincc l»cen seen. Tln-re is great excitement among the citiaen* of the vicinity, and a hunt for the murderer* was I* in* vigorously prosecut'd at last accounts.»p ii____n.i;.r e a lt;•.________
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The Leavenworth Weekly Times
Leavenworth, Kansas, US
Thu, Nov 10, 1870
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