From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 3:16 AM
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [KYF] NEWS: August Dwyer Slayer Acquitted, 1920, Bell Co. & MI

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
  <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143>

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY - Dec., 16, 1920

Local Man's Alleged Slayer Is Acquitted
   Detroit.  Dec. 16 -- Frank Dohany was acquitted today of the murder of
August Dwyer, who came here from Middlesboro, Ky., shortly before he was
killed.
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   As related in the News of yesterday, Dwyer had been out of Middlesboro
but some three or four days when the press report came from Detroit saying
he had been slain in that city.  As further related in the Daily news of
Wednesday, Mr. Dwyer was connected with the auditing department of the
United Mine Workers of America, and as such was in the habit of going to all
parts of the United States.  His last night here was spent in the R....way
Inn.

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