People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Killed at a Country Dance. [ARTICLE]

Killed at a Country Dance.

Casey, Til., Sept. 25. —Information was received here art a early hour Sunday morning of a horrible cutting affray, resulting in murder, that took place during a quarrel Saturday night at a country dance at the farmhouse of Mass Fritz near Union Center, 6 miles northwest of this city. George McMcchan received wounds which resulted fatally from a dirk knife in the, hands of Charles Carpenter, son of Constable Carpenter. He died in a few moments without a word. A man named Berry, of Janesville, and two others whose names are not known renewed fatal wounds- Carpenter escaped