Adams-Marshall County MsArchives News.....Stabbing at Louisville KY January 3, 1839
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The Pittsfield [MA] Sun January 3, 1839
A bloody affray took place at Louisville, Ky., on Saturday evening, Dec. 17th. 
Judge E. C. Wilkinson, his brother, B. R. Wilkinson, of Natchez, Miss., and J. 
Murdough, of Holly Springs, Miss., called at the tailor's shop of Varnum? & 
Redding, where the Judge had ordered a coat. The garment being tried on, Judge 
W. thought it did not fit him, and became irritated. Mr. Redding undertook to 
convince him he was in error, whereupon the Judge seized an iron poker and 
attacked Redding. A journeyman tailor, named A. H. Meeks, interfered, and one 
of the Judge's companions drew a bowie knife; but through the interposition of 
a gentleman passing at the moment, the affray was terminated without injury to 
any of the parties. Shortly afterwards, Redding and Meeks together with John 
Bothwell and Wm. Holmes, went to the G__t House, the lodging of the Judge and 
his friends, where a further altercation ensued, and bowie knives were again 
flourished by all the Mississippians. - Meeks was stabbed in the abdomen by 
Murdough, and instantly killed. - Bothwell mortally wounded in the back by 
Judge Wilkinson, and died the next day. - Holmes was severely wounded, it was 
supposed by B. R. Wilkinson - and Henry Oldham slightly wounded, probably by 
accident, as he did not mingle in the affray. - The three murderous assailants 
were committed to prison for examination. This is the account given by the 
Public Advertiser, which says, however, that there are some conflicting 
statements given by others.

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