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Source: Plymouth Republican Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Struck Down for Treason” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Plymouth, Indiana Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: 45 Issue number: 43 Pagination: [4] |
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| “Struck Down for Treason.” Plymouth Republican 12 Sept. 1901 v45n43: p. [4]. |
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| A. J. Robinson; McKinley assassination (sympathizers); lawlessness (mob rule: Logansport, IN). |
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| A. J. Robinson. |
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Struck Down for Treason
L, Ind., Sept. 9—While A. J. Robinson, a retired business man [sic], was discussing the McKinley shooting, a bystander remarked with an oath that it served the president right. Although Mr. Robinson is over sixty years old, and the other fellow is young and powerful, Robinson felled him with a terrific blow on the jaw. The man ran, or he would have been mobbed by a crowd which gathered. Robinson was a canal boat captain in early days, and a dangerous fighter.