Camden County MO Archives Deaths.....Gibson, Samuel 1883
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From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.


Gibson, Samuel - Samuel Gibson, an esteemed citizen who lived on the 
Wet Auglaize, in Auglaize Township, had a young man in his employ early
in 1883.  He took this hand and went to his field for the purpose of
boring holes into stumps in which to put kerosene oil to saturate the
stumps for the purpose of burning them.  At one of the stumps the hand,
whose name was Pruitt, struck Gibson on the head with the pole of an ax
killing him instantly.  A coroner's inquest was held, before which
Pruitt testified that Gibson had attacked him with his cane, and that 
he struck the blow with the ax in self defense.  The cane, however, was
found standing against a hay stack in another part of the field. Pruitt
made his escape and fled to Kentucky, but has not yet been apprehended
for the crime.


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