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- note on Find a Grave:
William and his sister Ann were killed by their cousin William Martin Ringo in September of 1850 when he went on a murderous rampage.
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- The Horrid Tragedy in Fleming.
We published some days ago, an account of a bloody tragedy in Fleming, the facts of which were stated to us by a gentleman of that county, whose information was at second hand. We are advised by another citizen of that county, residing not far from the scene of blood, that the former account contained sundry errors which we now proceed to correct. We refer of course to the case of Wm. M. Ring.
It was not his brother-in0law whom Ringo killed, but his cousin, Wm. S. Pleak. Nor was it his sister whom he shot through the thigh, but a sister of Pleak; though he did shoot at his own sister, the ball passing through her clothes without wounding here. Nor did his mother die the next day, of the shot he inflicted upon her. She was alive on Thursday, but her recovery was deemed hopeless.
When it was attempted to take him next day, though he refused to surrender, he did not shoot till he had been shot at. His shot wounded no body on this occasion. He received three shots from as many different rifles, which caused his immediate death.
We are not yet fully advised of the circumstances of this mournful affair; but the results of it, as our corrected account now stands were, that Ringo first shot Pleak dead; then shot his mtoher, who is not expected to survive; then shot Miss Pleak, but the wound is not dangerous; then shot at his sister, but without hurting here; and was the next day killed himself, on refusing to surrender.
Melancholy and calamitous in all its incidents and results, we have no heart to comment on the affair, except to intimate that Ringo must have been the victim of a desperate insanity. - All the parties were highly respectable people, and we understand no quarrel had existed between them. Mausville Eagle, 12th.
The Louisville Daily Courier, Louisville, Kentucky. Tuesday, 15 October 1850, page 2.
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