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A Thrilling Tragedy

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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L. S. Hill, au old and highly respt, citizen of Shelby county, Tenn. was oently shot and killed by Gallèy BmI under the following cirounutaiiüí Bond had been paying attention tolk daughter, a more girl of 14 yearsoU and visited Mr. Hill an houx befcre ahooting, and af ter somo convw went off saying that he wonld retnmj au hour. Bond went to his own ioa procured a barreled shotgun turned to Mr. Hill, and shot kimtW the door of his own house, firing J pistol balls throngh his bodytftg J feil from the first shot. After s. tht his victim was down and de&i ! seized the young lady, actually áramfc. her over the dead body of her father, e oarried her by f orce bef ore aneighte minister and demanded to be mairi her. The girl refused, when B threateaed to kill her. The miiiisn wife called Bond's attention totleij proach of a posso in purstiit of him, jj this time some neighbors rode nptotitt minister's house, when the young tó was taken from her captor and locke in a room seoure from any posdbüijl his carrying out his threat to kill ijl Bond had been riding all the night p vious, and had so jaded his hoisettnijr required another on which to miit escape. This he accomplished bjt? liberately shooting one of the hernia so wóunding him that he feil ftomlj horse, whioh he mounted and nxfet the residence of Mr. Pareons, & feirá distant, and made a forcible eicaif for a fine gray animal, on which lsi lost seen ridiiig westward towaidi Mississippi river, making good hisjs far from all pursners. The Boston Daily Advertim t tions " an organ spccially construcW? the Mason & Hamlin Organ Cmp for the celebrated Dr. Franz Li82(isi.i on ezbibiüou at their wareiooms. bl instrument is to be used in the Ia concert in Europe. It is constó: in many respects on an enürel;! principie, and is in all rcBpectsat' wonderful insti-ument. lts qualitj; tone and power are simply surpriát It is certainly a great complimatif theso Amorican makers that the ps; European musiciaus send for ik organs. A cmío opera company, com[K:[ Commodore Nutt, six other dmiisif small, ajtd Col. Goshen, tbe gÍ3L',[ traveling in the Woat. Thej jüfl "Jack, the Giant Killer," Oosten, t course, personating the giant. Dr f entor a town with Goshen riding ss on an immense horso, and tüe iirc' following in a tiny carriage.

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Old News
Michigan Argus