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Submitted: 11/12/11 • Approved: 2/19/20 • Last Updated: 2/22/20 • R613617-G0-S3
10 May 1821 - 13 Apr 1902
*Obituary The Constitution 17 Apr 1902
HIS HANDS BLOODY HE GOES TO DEATH
Man Is Slain And His Wife Seriously Wounded
The Slayer Is Then Killed
Son of the Dead Man Arrives on the Scene and Ends the Mortal Career of Man Who Shot His Parents
Dewitt, Ark, April 17-A tragedy occurred 6 miles east of here yesterday in which two men, Henry Hill and B. F. Dillion, lost their lives, and Mrs B. F. Dillion was perhaps fatally wounded. Henry Hill and his brother in law, B F Dillion were owners of adjoining farms and had had trouble about a cross-fence between their places. Yesterday afternoon Hill, it is clained, took his rifle and going over to Dillion's called the latter out on the front porch and shot him down, killing him. Mrs. Dillion, who is Hill's sister, ran out of the house to her husband when, it is clained, Hill shot her throught the body. Walter Dillion, a son of the slain man and nephew of Hill, arrived on the scene, and shot Hill twice with a rifle, killing him instantly. Mrs. Dillion is still alive, but in a precarious condition. All the parties are White people.
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