272:. The murder was said to be incited by a personal political controversy between the two men which began in the pages of their respective newspapers. From his jail cell, Ricketts published the newspaper while awaiting trial. A jury later ruled that Ricketts' act had been in self-defense because his rival wielded a cane. In the September 2, 1843 issue, Ricketts writes, "He made an attack upon us at the post office, about noon. Impelled by that principle--the law of self-defence , implanted by Nature in all her creatures, we shot and struck him." Two months later, in the November 4, 1843 issue, he announces the end of his trial: "The agony is over--the ordeal is passed--we are once more in our office in the enjoyment of liberty, and ready again to serve our subscribers to the best of our ability." Though he was acquitted of the murder, and though Forwood supposedly forgave Ricketts on his deathbed, the scandal and its subsequent blow to his reputation would last until his death in 1860.
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Commissioners have provided neither ladder, hooks nor axes for such emergencies. The hose, in this case, were eaten up by rats, which shows how much attention is paid the engines." He replaced the offices with a brick building that now serves as a Cecil Bank, at the corner of North and Whig streets. By June 1874, Ewing had built a new plant near his brick offices in Elkton. That brick office and plant would last for almost a century, escaping a second fire in 1948.
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