Source: Plain Dealer - Cleveland,
OH
Dated: Aug. 26, 1889
BLUDGEON AND BULLET
A Kentucky Man shot and a woman and daughter horribly beaten by a
neighbor of the victims.
INDEPENDENCE, KY - Aug. 25 [Special] - The most sensational
murder this old town has known for years occurred this morning.
Two of the best known families here are those of William WRIGHT
and Henry BEERS, both farmers living just out of town on the
road to Millwood. There has been ill feeling between the
families for years and outbreaks have been frequent though no blood
was shed until today. About 9 o'clock this morning WRIGHT
and Mrs. BEERS and her daughter driving some stock through one
of his fields. He claims they were intentionally trespassing.
They assert that the stock broke into the pasture and that they were
driving it out, when WRIGHT assaulted them. He knocked
mother and daughter down and was beating them savagely with a club
when BEERS, who had heard their screams, came running up,
exclaiming "For God's sake don't kill my wife and daughter."
WRIGHT, so BEERS claims, then turned on him and
he was compelled in self-defense to shoot him to death. Both
women are in a dangerous condition and Mrs. BEERS will die.
BEERS was taken to Covington and locked up for safe keeping.
WRIGHT'S friends claim that the whole affair was a put up job
to entice the victim into a trap and kill him though by an accident
he succe3eded in saving his life at the probable cost of two of his
foes. There is a bad feeling and relatives of both families
are liable to take up the quarrel in which event blood will flow
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