The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-20
FEATURES OF INTEREST
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Double Murder Over Line Fence.

In a dispute over a line fence be-
tween the farms of Alexander Meek
and Frank Railsback, three miles
west of Richmond. Ind, Alexander
Meek and his son Raymond we're shot
and instantly killed. Frank Railsback
was badly wounded and Frank Rails
back, ST., slightly wounded. The diff
ference between the two families rela-
tive to the fance had existed for
some weeks, but had not reached a
serious stage until the Railsback men
proceeded to the line and with axes
began chopping away the posts. The
Meeks, father and son, left the house,
going to the point of the fence where
the Railsbacks were at work. The
father had a revolver and the son a
shotgun. Both fired on the Railsback
men and Frank Railsback. jr. fell
with a wound in his knee, probably
from the revolver of the elder Meek.
The elder Railsback was wounded in
the abdomen by shot from one bar
rel of the younger Meeek's gun. The
Railsbacks retreated, and Joel Rails
back, another son, went to the house
and returning with a double barreled
shotgun fired point-blark at the Meeks
killing both, shooting each of them in
the head, and the fact that their faces
and clothing were powderburned in
dicates that he must have been very
close when he fired. After commmit-
ing the murders Joel Railsback got on
an interurban car and went at once
to Richmond, where he gave himself
up to Sheriff Meredith, giving the lat
ter the first iltiniation of the tragedy.
An Explosion Follows Fire.
Fire of unknown origin, accom-
panied by an explosion, destroyed the
warehouse of the Sea Board Air Line
railway at the railroad terminals in
Portsmouth, Va, entailing loss of
from 100000 to $4,000 and result
ing in the injury of four men,
one being seriously hurt. Between
fifty and sixty freight cars, many of
them loaded, also were burned. Soon
after the Portsmouth fire department
explosion within the storehouse,
brick structure, followed by several
smaller ones sent bricks and burning
timbers flying in every direction. The
officials of the company attribute the
explosions to a quantity of torpedoes.
"Friend of BoyIesr Threatens Judge.
The police of Cleveland, Ohio, have
learned that threat has been made
to dynamite the home of Judge A. W.
Williams in Mercer, Pa, unless he
lends his efforts to obtaining a new
trial for James Boyle and wife, re-
Gently convicted before him on
charge of kidnapping Willie Whitla
The treats were sent in any anonymous
letter postmarked Cleveland. The let
ter postmarked Cleveland. Tie letter
was signed "A Friend of the Boyles,"
and warned Judge Williams that I'M
less he did as the writer ordered his
home would be blown up and himself
and family killed.
earndenburg Prisoner in NV York.
Broughton Brandenburg, the maya
zine writer, whose troubles quickly
followed the publication of letter in
the New York Times last fall pur-
porting to have been written by the
late Grover Cleveland, is prisoner in
New York. He was locked up at po-
lice headquarters after being brought
from San Francisco by two detectives
who were sent to the coast after
Brandenburg's arrest there some
weeks ago following his disappearance
from New York when he was wanted
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