Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 20, 1921
 
Is Fatally Shot At Chicken Fight
Richmond Pool Room Proprietor Held For Attack In Shakertown
   Harrodsburg, Ky., Jan. 20 -- Roy Robertson, 22 years old, is believed to
be dying with a bullet wound in the abdomen, and Owen Walker, 65, negro poll
room operator of Richmond, is in jail here charged with the shooting as the
result of a quarrel at a chicken fight at Shakertown last night, where,
according to County Attorney R.L. Black, who conducted an investigation,
nearly 300 person from surrounding counties were present.
   A crowd of young Harrodsburg men found a rope, seized the negro and
threatened to lynch him when cooler heads interfered.  Officers brought him
to a cell here for safe keeping.
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