Hard Cider And Insults

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Struck By An Axe And Killed

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Episode 367 is a holiday tale more bone-chilling than heart-warming. It takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving, when family and friends get together for games and good times. The cautionary part of the tale here is, be aware of what topics are best to be avoided. This tJumpime, the touchy subject is not politics, but eyewear.

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0:00.0	Popular.com.
0:08.6	Trenton, New Jersey, November 29th, 1897.
0:16.2	Clarence Doyle, who yesterday near East Windsor, killed Amos Hvelin with an axe, was arrested today at Allentown,
0:23.6	where he was employed as a farmhand. He did not know that Havelin was dead and claimed that he had struck him in self-defense.
0:32.6	Doyle is a brother of Jimmy Doyle, a clever young pugilist residing in this city.
0:39.3	Yesterday, Doyle went to the Spence Farm, where Havelin is employed, and spent the day with him
0:44.9	and his wife. The men drank freely of hard cider, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, they quarreled,
0:51.7	the host accusing Doyle of undue familiarity with
0:55.6	Mrs. Havelin both men were very drunk and they were evenly matched in strength
1:01.1	they struggled a long time on even terms until Doyle seized an axe and struck
1:07.4	Havelin a blow on the forehead from which he died three hours later after Havelin a blow on the forehead, from which he died three hours later.
1:12.6	After Havelin had fallen, Doyle staggered to Allentown, which is not far from the Spence Farm, and went to bed.
1:21.6	This morning he was at work at the usual hour, and doubtless did not realize that he was a murderer until told so by the officers.
1:30.3	Doyle this afternoon was brought to the county jail. His victim body is in the morgue.
1:37.3	This evening, County physician Rogers held an inquest and the jury decided that the blow administered by Doyle
1:45.6	caused Havlin's death.
2:28.2	The True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news, tales of classic scandals, scoundals, and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism.
2:36.0	Episode 367 is a holiday tale, more bone-chilling than heartwarming. It takes place the weekend after Thanksgiving when family and friends get together for games and good times.
2:44.0	The cautionary part of this tale is be aware of what topics are best to be avoided at such gatherings. This time, the touchy subject
2:53.2	is not politics, but I wear. I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and for your
2:59.8	horror and indignation, I give you... Hard cider and insults, struck by an axe and killed.
3:13.3	Havelin was a quiet, peaceable man, and wherever employed was highly spoken of.
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