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    1. [SCSPARTA] Multiple Murders Spartanburg 1920's
    2. Hi All, Details on this murder are sketchy at best, but was hoping one of you could provide some detail to help me ascertain the approximate date. This is what I know: Earl Robertson killed several [3 to 5?] of his coworkers in a break room with a scythe or some such farm implement. He spent the rest of his life in the mental hospital in Columbia. This happened in Spartanburg County. My grandmother was small when it happened, and remembers few details, it was probably late 20's or early 30's. I would like to read the newspaper articles, but don't know the date. I don't know any of the men's names who were killed, if I knew one of those, I could go to the obituary index and find the date. Does any of this ring a bell? Earl Robertson was the husband of my great-great grandmother's sister -- Dot Cooper. Thanks, Lisa

    03/06/2003 03:09:56