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    1. [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Washington County: Huffman Killed Jones
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    3. Terre Haute (IN) Weekly Express, October 20, 1869. >From the New Albany Commercial we learn that on last Friday there was another murder in Washington County. It appears that one Jones, a man about 30 years of age, and one Huffman, a boy aged 17, both in the employ of John and Henry Huffman near White River, Jefferson Township, had a dispute as to how a certain piece of work should be done. They quarreled some time using cuss words at and towards each other until finally Jones swore he would larrup the boy and started to carry out his intention. The young man was not going to be run off nor thrashed and seized a club about four or five feet in length and dealt Jones a blow on the head felling him to the ground, breaking his skull, from the effects of which he died on Saturday. Huffman has fled the country to escape arrest.

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