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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1862., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
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1st, says that on the previous Saturday, the Sheriff of the place, Allen R. Haddox was killed in attempting to arrest Chas. O'Rourke, under a warrant setting forth that O'Rourke had shot at a citizen with intent to kill. On entering the door the SheO'Rourke had shot at a citizen with intent to kill. On entering the door the Sheriff was confronted with a musket in the hands of O'Rourke. This he brush aside, and was proceeding to execute the duties of his office, when he received a stab, which inflicted a wound in the thigh, a short distance below the hip joint. From the eO'Rourke. This he brush aside, and was proceeding to execute the duties of his office, when he received a stab, which inflicted a wound in the thigh, a short distance below the hip joint. From the effects of this wound he was so much exhausted by the loss of blood, before medical aid could reach him, that he died in the course of two or three hours. In endeavoring to render the proper assistance to the Sheriff, in executing the process under whcape. In the attempt to execute their purpose, some four shots were fired by the citizens, one of them taking effect in O'Rourke breast, from the effects of which he died as he was being conveyed to jail. Of the citizens engaged in taking him, four