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Helm's arm with a shotgun blast. Helm then fled into the blacksmith shop. While Hardin held the townspeople at gunpoint, Taylor chased down Helm and unloaded the remaining five bullets into his head. As Hardin and Taylor mounted their horses and prepared to ride away, witnesses reportedly heard them boast that they had accomplished what they had set out to do.
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287:(sometimes Helms) in the town square. Helm had recently moved to the area to perfect his 'cotton-worm destruction' machine, which he had invented and patented. He was living at the McCracken boarding house, and found himself unarmed when approached by Hardin, having left his guns in his room while working on his invention at the blacksmith shop.
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