The Arkansas advocate., 1835-07-17
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MULBERRY, 4th July. IS3i

MULBERRY, 4th July, 1885.
 sIR-It IS my melancholy duty to inform you, and through your paper to inform the public, of a most atrocious murder, commit ted in Carroll county, 4. T.
 The circumstances of the above named murder, as nearly as I can ascertain, are as ifollows:-Dr William Hamblin, respect able citizen of Carroll county, Qate of Crawford,) had some difference with a fa- n1ily of four or five brothers, some of whom called themselves Nooner, and some Me- Nooner--which difference partially termin- ated in a fight, in which one of the Nooners was slightly stabbed hy Dr. Hamblin. Fms was some time last summer or fail, since which time no good will has seemed { to exist between the family of brothers and Dr. HambI;n. Last Sunday, June 18th, while Dr. Hamblin and his family were at meeting, a blind was made within sixty yards of his door. From the threats of the f.Nooners and MeNooners, Dr. Hamblin was advised by several persons not to re- turn home that evening; but he replied that no man or set of men had eyer deterred him from home or any other place he wish ed to go to.
 When his neighbors discovered that all their friendly advice could not influence Dr. H., several of them accompanied him home. They stad until about sunset, when they all retired, leaving the Doctor and his little family alone, his wife and two children The retiring neighbors had not reached one hundred paces, when they heard gun fire. They immediately ran back, and found Dr. Hamblin dead, or dy- ing, shot in the left side with a rife ball. Three or four of the Nooners and Me Nooners were immediately arrested and put in custody. A witnesss was found who stated that Jedediah MeNooncr, com monly called Dyer Nooner, was the man who shot Hamblin--that he, the witness, heard Dyer MclNooner say he had to leave the blind he had made, and crawl some twenty yards to tree, and then had bad chance to shoot the Doctor, but that he aimed 10 shoot him in the left side. and thought he had done so, for at the crack of the gun the Doctor sprang to his feet, ran round the house and smoke house, and fell near where he started. When the Doctor was shot, he was sitting by the side of his house, reading a newspaper.
 These circumstances being facts, as they really are, 1t is certain that Jedidah, alias 1 Dyer McNooner, murdered the Doctor in a most shocking cold blooded manner, for this Dyer Nooner lived in Crawford coun- ] ty, and, am told, never had word of diff ference personally with Dr. Hamblin in his life. His brother, William Meener, was with him when he committed the deed. lie was not taken at the last accounts. I am not acquainted with him. Jedediah Nc Nooner IS a man about six feet two in- ches high, stout made, raw boned, large mouth, large white eyes, weighs from one hundred and eighty to two hundred. He was one of the famous Land Claim Com pany, of whom wrote to the Helena Land Office last spring, and has been lying out ever since that time. lam told the citizens of Carroll county have, by subscription, raised and offered a reward of two hundred dollars, for William and Jedidiah McNoon- CT. hope all good citizens will give eve- ry aid in experiencing and bringing to jus tice such outawed villains.
 VIM. WIITSON,
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