>From Dresden (Tennessee) Enterprise Newspaper June 30, 1905 We are informed that the worst tragedy ever committed in Fulton was perpetrated there last Saturday evening at about eight o’clock. The circumstances are about these: Messrs. SPINK and WALTERS, brothers-in-law, the former a freight train conductor, the latter a piano tuner, were living in the same house. It seems best of feelings had not prevailed for a year or more. On Mr. WALTERS’ return from Paducah, Saturday evening, he found a horse had been turned into the yard to graze, had gotten into the garden and mutilated it. WALTERS became enraged and opened fire on SPINK, who was sitting on the side of the bed holding a two weeks old babe that was then dying. SPINK, who was mortally wounded, laid the baby down and crawled to his pistol and while WALTERS continued shooting him, got his pistol and shot WALTERS through the heart, killing him almost instantly. SPINK died about midnight, and the baby died also during the night. So on Sunday, the husband, brother and child of Mrs. SPINKS were corpses in the same building. Moral: Piano tuners should always be straight shooters; you might want to practice ... Alan Barnard Salem, MO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080307/549d5787/attachment.html
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