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The Chattanooga News
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee
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In Cookeville inquest into soldier Raphael Purmutter's murder, witness Letta Hill testified seeing him with suspects Jim Madewell, John Kirby, and another man before hearing shots and blows that night.
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Nashville, March 31.—The most important evidence which the inquest at Cookeville into the death of Raphael Purmutter, the soldier, recently murdered, there was heard today when Letta Hill, a negro woman, told of seeing a soldier pass her home in company with Jim Madewell, John Kirby and a third man on the afternoon that Purmutter disappeared.
The woman said about 11 or 12 o'clock the same night she heard four shots, a sound of blows and a voice speaking in broken speech. The disturbance was on a hill a few hundred yards from her home.
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Cookeville
Event Date
March 31
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death of raphael purmutter; damaging evidence presented against defendants jim madewell, john kirby, and a third man
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At the inquest in Cookeville, Letta Hill testified to seeing Raphael Purmutter with Jim Madewell, John Kirby, and a third man passing her home on the afternoon of his disappearance. That night around 11 or 12 o'clock, she heard four shots, blows, and broken speech from a hill nearby.