CHEROKEE PHOENIX
Wednesday, January 21, 1829
Volume 1 No. 45
Page 2 Col. 3b-4b

About the same time, and in the same neighborhood, an attempt was made, by one Joseph Crittenton to kill another person while riding in the night, side by side.  He fired his gun and wounded the unsuspecting person in the arm.

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