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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: [ARKANSAS] Van Buren Argus July 29, 1891
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 11:02:32 -0800


Van Buren Argus

Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

July 29, 1891

State News

A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY

Robert Dempsey and wife returned from a picnic last at night, and on entering their house in the mountains, six miles from Conway, found the front door spattered with blood and the dead body of an unknown man lying across the bed. He had been riddled with bullets. In another place the dead body of a young man was found. He had also been shot. The interior of the house showed that a terrible fight had taken place. It is supposed the slain men were criminals from the Indian Territory, who, being overtaken by pursuers, hid in the house, where they perished miserably.

ACQUITTED OF MURDER

Joseph Wright, of Jefferson County, on trial for the murder of a negro tenant, has been acquitted. The killing caused considerable excitement.

A TEACHER KILLED

At Monticello, the other day, Professor F K Haynes, a school teacher, was stabbed and instantly killed by Bob Baker, one of his pupils.

AN ASSASSIN LYNCHED

John Farmer, colored, was lynched in Chico County, for the wanton murder of Dr. C C Buckner. It is said that Farmer confessed.

HE WHIPPED HIS MOTHER

It is reported that white caps of Cleveland County flogged Filmore McCoy a few nights since for having whipped his mother.

Fran Alverson Warren
e-mail:
479-369-2703
http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/

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