Camden County MO Archives Deaths.....McLaughlin, William T. May 1882
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From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.


McLaughlin, William T. - In May, 1882, William T. McLaughlin, while 
passing along the highway in Section 22, Town 39, Range 16, was shot
and killed by some person in ambush.  John Hopkins was arrested for
the offense, and given a preliminary trial before Wm. C. Brown, a 
justice of the peace, who committed him to await the action of the 
grand jury.  Sheriff George lodged the prisoner in jail at Linn Creek
on the 15th day of May, and soon after took him to the Lebanon, Laclede
county jail, for safe keeping.  In September, following, he was brought
back to Linn Creek for trial, and on being arraigned obtained a change
of venue to Miller county.  The same week he broke jail at Linn Creek
and escaped.  On the 2nd day of December, following, Sheriff George
re-arrested him in Carroll county, Ark., and brought him back.  On the
16th day of February, 1883, the sheriff conveyed the prisoner from
Lebanon to Tuscumbia, Miller county, where he was tried and acquitted.


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