Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Bruce, J.T.  January 16, 1887
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Clay County Watchman
About four miles north of Lineville once lived a man by the name of J.T. Bruce. 
On last Saturday he went to Lineville meeting. Before he left the village, he 
was somewhat under the influence of whiskey, he went home Saturday night. 
Sunday, he renewed his drinking, During the day it is said that he abused his 
wife and children saying he intended to kill them all. He seemed to be raving 
all day. Finally, about 9 o'clock at night he decided that he would commence the 
slaughter by cutting the throat of his oldest boy a youth about seventeen, but 
small to his age. It seems that the boy had been evading his father all day. The 
father at last at attacked the boy with an open knife. The boy ran out of the 
house carrying a gun with him. As the father came out in pursuit of the boy, he 
leveled his gun and fired. The father was hit in the left breast and at once 
turned back into the house and died on a bed in a few moments. These are the 
particulars has been given to us. 

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