People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — Chopped His Head Off. [ARTICLE]

Chopped His Head Off.

Lebanon, Ivy., April 4. — Lewis J. Ratliff was killed at day by a man named Mahoney. Ratliff went to Mahoney’s distillery early and quarreled with the owner, who struck him a fearful blow in the head with a hatchet. The infuriated man then dragged Ratliff’s lifeless form a short and placing his neck across a )lop, completely severed the head from the boay.