—John Elliott, until lately a citizen o[f] Newark, O., a few days ago murdered two men in a drunken brawl at Dallas, Tex., for which crime he was lynched. When his father died he fell heir to a small fortune, since which time he has led a terrible life, having shot two and stabbed one man in Ohio, but always by some means escaped the law. His mother, two brothers and a sister reside in Newark.
The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) dated June 12, 1879:
A DESPERATE CHARACTER LYNCHED.
Special Telegram to The Inter Ocean.
NEWARK, Ohio, June 11.—A dispatch from Davenport, Texas, says: John Elliott, a former resident of Newark, shot and killed two men in a street fight. He was immediately lynched by a mob. He shot and cut two men in Licking County while residing here.
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