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Armstrong was murdered in his office by gunshot on
November 2, 1946, when he was 69 years old by a suspected burglar, but nothing was stolen. His body was found by a patient who called for help. He was survived by his wife Jessie Marie Armstrong and a $ 1,000 reward was offered by the police. It was
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as a part of the Marion Ravens when he was 13 years old, and he played during the 1890s. Armstrong was a part of the college's
Adelphian Literary Society and was a secretary of the society for one spring. In 1900, his final year in college, he was the captain of the baseball team. Booker T.
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A student residential house and community center on the campus of
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later suspected that the murderer was part of a group after a narcotics safe at
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