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Submitted: 5/9/12 • Approved: 5/10/12 • Last Updated: 9/13/12 • R690813-G0-S3
George Ingle was born May 26, 1834 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. He was shot and killed during a mining strike near Spadra, AR.
Arkansas Gazette - Wed. April 26, 1893
FROM AMBUSH
A Couple Of Heartless Miners Cruelly Shoot And Kill An Innocent Man
Frightful Sequence to a Strike in Progress at the Eureka Mines, in Johnson County
Pit Boss Ingle Waylaid and Killed Without a Warning - Capture of the Two Alleged Assassins By a Posse, Assisted by Bloodhounds
A terrible murder was committed in Johnson County Sunday night, the details of which are given in the Fort Smith Times of April 25 as follows:
A COLD-BLOODED CRIME
News reached this city last night of a murder, the planning and execution of which shows a degree of deliberate cold-bloodedness only equaled by the famous Molly Maguires, who but a few years ago terrorized the whole mining district of Pennsylvania and almost paralyzed the entire coal industry of the State.
The particulars of this cruel crime are at this writing very meager, but from the information received it seems that the Eureka mines owned by Stiewell Bros., and situated at Spadra, Ark. , have for the past five weeks been having trouble with their men, and the miners, while waiting for settlement of the differences between themselves and their employers, organized and endeavored to carry in effect a boycott against the mines. One of the methods used to prevent the mine owners from getting labor to replace that of the boy cotters, was to post in conspicuous places notices warning all miners and laborers that a strike was on at the mine and that it would be dangerous for new men to accept employment during the progress of the strike. As fast as these warnings were posted they would disappear, until the miners roused to a frenzy of rage, publicly announced that the first man found tearing them down would be killed on the spot.
The miners, however, never discovered who it was that was interfering with their plans, but suspicion rested very strongly on Pit Boss Ingle, a quiet, faithful, inoffensive man, who, during the whole trouble, had remained strongly loyal to those for whom he was working, and last night while he was taking a quiet walk to the railroad depot, a pistol shot was suddenly heard and Ingle fell dead.
Search was immediately instituted, and the pistol found still smoking from its terrible work. Word was at once sent to the Sheriff of Johnson county, who shortly afterward arrived upon the scene, bringing with him two bloodhounds. The dogs were put upon the track and at daylight had run to earth two of the men, to whom all the indications point as being guilty of the bloody crime. The names of the captured men could not be learned last night, but the authorities seem positive that they have the right parties and have them safely locked in the County Jail at Clarksville.
Contributed on 5/9/12
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