Blaine County NeArchives News.....Aikens, Judge C. W. Killed May 23, 1891
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 May 22, 2018, 6:03 pm

Lincoln Evening Call Sun May 24, 1891 May 23, 1891


CRIME'SCHAPTER
A Prominent Citizen Killed at Dunning, Neb.

Dunning, Neb., May 23-- Yesterday a questionable
character by the name of McAlvey stole a couple of
two-year-old steers from a man named Craig in the
southeast part of Blaine county. He drove them
within three miles of Brewster to Dr. Palmer's place,
and put them up in the stable.
   Craig followed, and a couple of  his neighbors 
fell in and they tracked the steers to where they
were corraled. Craig wished to turn the steers out
and take them home, but neighbors decided they had
better watch and catch the thief. Meantime quite a
crowd, among them Judge C. W. Aiken, treasurer of
Blaine county, had assembled to assist in the watch.
   About 11 o'clock last night McAlvey came to get 
his stolen steers. The crowd collared him and made
him acknowledge that he stole the cattle, and also
that a negro by the name of Eli Creighton assisted
him.
   Meantime the watcher separated without any signal
or password whereby they could recognize one  another.
Judge Aikens took charge of McAlvey. Just then a 
young man named Rittenhouse came riding up the road
and Judge Aikens thinking it was another one of the
thieves and possibly the negro, Creighton, ordered
him to halt and surrender.
   A young friend of Rittenhouse, thinking that Judge
Aiken was a thief and supposing that he was about to
kill his friend, opened fire on Judge Aikens and 
McAlvey and killed them both. McAlvey was shot through
the heart and Judge Aikens through the body. Both died
instantly.
  The whole county is in mourning over Judge Aiken's
untimely death, as he was a man universally liked and
respected.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/blaine/newspapers/aikensju14nnw.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/nefiles/

File size: 2.3 Kb