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Terrible Hatred

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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A horrible story of man 8 inhum;m hatred for a feltow-creoture oomos from Maysville, Ky. Levi Ballhaa íurnifihed the'family of James (!. Öwens witli supplit'H to me iiniouiit of $200, aud, liudiug it iinpossible to eolleet, brouglit a suit. Recovering a verdiot, lie levied on Owens' propt'i'ty, which was released ou a elaimaut's bond, and on tliat Ball nlso secuïed a iudgtnent. Tliosc vmous proceediiiRR aroiised Owoiis to a pitch of mathKss, and ho swore to kill liall. Every insult he could devis( hê cast upon liis prospective vietim U) win soinc provocation, and fimdly lio solcinnly 08serted his int.-nt.idn of pouring tlie contents of liis sliot;;un, whicli he liad obarged with forly slug, into Ball'a m ■;- (-■ni. A fcw days ago he met Ball uní commenced liis abuse again, whereupon Ball flred four shote, mortally wounding Iris vimlictivc enomy. Ou his death-bed Owens went iuto convulsiona at the suggestioii that he imint die before killing the object of his hatred, añil when he rccovered lio nxacted with his dying breath a Holeinn oath from liis 17-yearold sou that he wonld novcr i-(st until he had ent Bnll t-o his grave". Upon the trial of BaU for tho shooting, he was promptly aoquit.tcil.

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Old News
Michigan Argus