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A Sheriff Assaulted And Robbed

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Day
30
Month
November
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Youngstown, Ohio, Nov. 27.- At S o'clock Monday morning as Sheriff E. B. Welker was passing the court house to take a train he was assaulted by two rufifiana who had been waiting for him, overpowered, robbed of a diamond pin, and thrown over a wall. He feil a distance of eighteen feet, on a stone pavement, fracturing his right hip and arm. He was found two hours afterward unconscious and nearly frozen. Surgeons think that he will recover, but he will be badly crippled for life. No arresta have yet been made. As his watch and other valuables were not taken, the deed :t supposed to have been the work of crimináis for revenge.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News