People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Stabbed to Death in Church. [ARTICLE]

Stabbed to Death in Church.

Lawrencevillk, 111., May 14.— A the New Hope church, in Lukin township, southwest of this city, Sail Belt stabbed Ira Smith in the abdomen with a pocketknife. Smith lived but a few minutes. Belt was captured and brought here by Sheriff Cochran. Belt claims that the cutting was done in self-defense.