Richmond Times Dispatch (VA)
KILLS EMPLOYER AND SELF
Mystery Surrounds Double Shooting That Occurred at Nokesville on Thursday
Manassas, VA., September 30 - Mystery still surrounds the tragedy which occurred at Nokesville on Thursday. Eugene Dobson, colored, who shot and killed his employer, Jacob R. Burkle, a Prince William County farmer, and then committed suicide, was known throughout the neighborhood as an exemplary specimen of his race.
The bodies of the two men were found in separate rooms of the barn on the Burkle place. A shotgun lying beside the body of Dobson told the story. He was about fifty years old.
Reports state that Dobson went to the house several hours before the shooting for the gun "to kill a black snake at the barn." The report of the gun was heard and farmhands in a neighboring cornfield hurried to the barn.
Mr. Burkle was about fifty-five years old and is survived by his wife.
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