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G«or|« Burnett Shot.George Burnett, the architect, a former resident of this city, was shot in the mouth in Las Animas last Saturday, by Adam Gardner, the bullet entering the It ft cheek, striking a tooth and imbedding it in the tongue, and passing out of the right cheek. lie-fore a second shot could be fired Sheriff Dean interposed and took the revolver away from Gardner. liurnett ran through Attorney Luber’s office and dashed through a hack win dow.The trouble originated over Gardner's daughter, a girl of seventeen, who has been stopping at Burnett's house learning to be a dressmaker. '1 he girl refused to go home, claiming that her father abused her, and Burnett supported he* in her defiance of parental authority, which created had blood between the men. Gardner was released on bond, nearly one hundred citizens of Las Animas offering to sign the docu ment.
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La Junta Tribune
La Junta, Colorado, US
Wed, Nov 26, 1902
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