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ARGUMENT ENDS IN KILLING OF FOUR [POTOSI] MISSOURI PERSONS
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,
Ohio Potosi, Missouri – Aug. 8 – This mining community today was recovering from the horror of the wholesale killing of four persons & the critical wounding of a fifth following an argument between two miners in the bottom of a 15-foot tiff mine. Elliott Missey, 40, shot & killed John Pitzer, 55, after the two had quarreled over the rights of their mine holdings, Sheriff W. J. Simmons declared. Missey then turned his shotgun on Clarence Leach & wounded him critically. Climbing out of the mine pit, Missey walked to the home of John Coleman, another miner, & shot & killed him. Missey then went to his own home, locked his six children in the barn & shot his wife to death. The miner then killed himself. |