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    1. [KS-OLD-NEWSPAPERS] Shooting Affair At Perry: December 22, 1899
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    3. The Oskaloosa Times Jefferson County Friday December 22, 1899 Shooting Affair at Perry. Perry, Kas., Dec. 21.--Special.--G.A. FOLEY, U.P. agent at Perry, was shot and killed Thursday morning, at 7 o'clock by Thos. KIRBY, proprietor of the Kirby house. Mr. Foley had been boarding with Thos. Kirby and while there seducted Mr. Kirby's 17 year old daughtter, Clara. Mr. Kirby shot Mr. Foley in his room up-stairs and Foley ran he fired a second shot as he went down the stairs and killed him dead with a third shot in front of Digg's drug store. Mr. Kirby then went to Oskaloosa and gave himself up. The body was taken to the Kirby house and laid in the dining room where an inquest was held.

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