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Murdered, at the Utpot, Seeiulugly Without Any Prow ration.Groensburg, Ind., special: The littletown of Ailams. rive miles west of this city, is in the throes of excitement over a murder that was committed there about 6 o'clock Saturday evening-. John Cline, aged about 45. had been attending thu street fair in this city in the afternoon, and left for Adams on the 5 o'clock train, somewhat under the influence of liquor. At the station at Adams he met Frank Ritchey, and the latter claims that Clina knocked him down twice without provocation. Ritchey then drew a hook-bili pocket-knife and almost severed Cline's head.Both men were single and of quarrelsome dispositions, although there seems to have been no previous ill-feeling between them. What the tight started over no one seems to know, as there were no eye-witnesses to the beginning'. Ritchey is about 27 years of age. Both men had lived in Adams all their lives. Sheriff Davis went to the scene of the crime and arrested the murderer.
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The Thorntown Argus
Thorntown, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 04, 1902
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