Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-04-15
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Sergeant-at-Arms Of the State
Senate Murdered. ~

Sergeant-at-Arms Of the Stat
Senate Murdered.
We learn by d paragraph in th
st. Joseph Herald that Mr.. Rogers
! Sergeant-at-arms Of The Senate, wa
killed 81 Trenton, GruHdy county
on his way home from this city,
The paragraph Is as follows:
The murdered man was a brother
Of the Senator; The editor of the
Princeton Advance, and Sergeant.
alarms Of the State Senate, As be
4 was on his way to Jefferson City
\ IN january last, he stopped at the
\ Trenton Hotel, Kept by Mr. Kenne-
4 dy; not gbeing0 satisfied with the
4 treatment ,he.receiyed at the hotel,
he denounced Mr., Kennedy in a
| letter written from Jefferson to the
Advance OA his return home af-
ter the Adjournment Of the Senate,
4 he stopped at the Trenton House
to get drink, when he was at
tackled by Kennedy and killed, The
deceased had a number Of friends
\ in this city. l1a7 3ti a"ol
| Since the above was in type, we
find the following in the Grand
River Republican, from which it
appears that Mr.. Rogers was not
killed.. 1t is to be hoped that the
matter is not so bad as first report.
ed; t.4l..-- e4,I Ef7a enta q.
| On Monday last our community
was shocked by the announcement
that H. N. Rogers, esq, ofthe Mer-
Ger County Advance, and Sergeant
at Arms of the State Senate, had
been assaulted BY Henry Kennedy,
tof the Union Hotel, and fatally in-
ijured. M
\ Mr. Rogers was on his way home
from Jefferson, accompanied by his
wife and child, and stopped at the
hotel for dinner, and also to be
ready for the Princeton stage
Going into the back yard to pro
eure some water for his child he
met Mr. Kennedy who tits said,
made a Yiolentand unproEoked at
tack upon him, giving him a heavy
blow upon the head, by which his
skull was Slightly fractured ana his
face terribly bruised. 'dl To 41i''-' 4
Tbefipjured man received imne-
diate attention from Doetors Keri
eoot and Proctor, and is now being
carefully nnrsed at the residence Of
Captain w. H Roberts, and at last
accounts was getting along very
well, although not considered ens
Itifely out of danger. i;,, a.f Il,
The affair IS deeply regretted hy.
our community, and tits the general
desire that the matter be rigidly in
yestigated.
Mr. Kennedy was promptly ar
rested and will undergo an examin-
alton on Friday next.
Believing that justice will be
done all parties, we refrain from
further comment until after a legal
inYestie alton, s,tat.am5} ,
The atoye is from, the Missouri
State Times, published at Jefferson
City, BY a letter from Mr.. Rogers
t0 the Il Editors Of this paper, last
week we are pleased to learn that
he is improving and will soon be
himself again, lie has a anumber of
friends in this county who will re,
joice to know that the Ku-Klux
Klan failed. in, their attempt to mur,
der him, and that he is improving
-[EDs. HERALD, lr rr.g.l a \
ng illA 109Ql -. -L-l-
DRAwrNGi-1A young man applied
for a situation as private tutor. He
was subjected to a series of ques-
tons which somewhat ruffled his
temper. At length came the ques- |
ton, HCan you draw young man ?''
"Certainly," replied the candidateg
SAT fen Years Of opa I eonld Jrou