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Also Known As:<_AKA> /Brock/
Green County Review Newspaper:  Killed In Green County.  A long, keen blade Cut his heart in twain and his life's blood spurted forth. No arrests made. Green county has another murder added to her already long list.  Last Tuesday , 17th , George Fed Warren fatally  stabbed Cal Buck Skaggs, at John Fox Warren's on Brush Creek in Green County, about  fifteen miles from this place. The facts, which came to us from a thoroughly reliable source , are as follows: Warren's father and Skaggs were arguing politics and the discussion had become animated. Strong words were employed but no licks passed. Suddenly up stepped the son (George Fed Warren with a long bladed knife in his hand, and, without saying a word, thrust it into the breast of Skaggs, the knife being thrust with such force that the handle bruised the body around the hole made by the blade, The knife penetrated the heart and Skaggs's blood spurted out, death resulting instantly. As soon as the stab was made Skaggs fell to the ground and never spoke afterwards. Owing to the excitement no attempt was made to arrest Warren and he made good his escape, although, at last reports diligent search was being made for him. Warren had been recognized as a man in very good standing but of late years had been given to occasional drinking and carousing.

From the Larue County Herald, Thursday , June 19m 1890, page 2 col. 5: Cal Skaggs Killed- An Old Soldier Fatally stabbed in a fight Near Greensburg, Kentucy. June 18- Special- Yesterday afternoon at John Fox Warren's place, on Brush Creek, fourteen miles from here, Cal Brock Skaggs was killed by George Fed Warren. Skaggs and William Fed Warren, the father of George, had been engaged in a diffculty and Skaggs was trying to club the old man Warren. When George interfered Call Skaggs turned his attention and club to George. In an instant he was seen to weaken and abandon the fight. He walked a few steps and sat down and was a dead man in five minutes, having received ten cuts, one in the heart. The parties were all more or less under the influence of liquor. Skaggs was an old soldier and was regarded as a man of courage. George Warren is a young man about thirty years old. He is under arrest.

"The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Thursday Morning June 19, 1890: Our Report of the recent Green County Killing Corrected by One Who Claims to Know. Below is published a statement by Mr. R. A. T. Sutherland to correct the report of the killing which recently occurred in Green county. We published the report as given us by a reliable man, but if we are in error, we are glad to make the correction and give the gentleman who did the killing the benfit of Mr. Sutherland's statement, which is as follows:
Having noticed an erroneous statement in your last week's issue in regard to the unfortunate affair between G. W. Warren and Calvin Brock Skaggs on the 17th , which resulted in the killing of Skaggs by Warren, I venture to make a few corrections. There were blows passed between the men and Warren did not try to evade arrest, but gave himself up to officer J. M. Terrill. The trouble came between Skaggs and Warren's father, a man very infirm with age and suffering from the effects of rheumatism, and also intoxicated to insensibility. A contention arose between the old man and Skaggs, during which he called Skaggs a bastard. Skaggs seized a huge stick and started at the old man said "I'll break you d---d neck if you don't take that back." George, the son, interferred by stepping up and tellin Skaggs he must desist. Skaggs, turning to George, asked if he took it up, and started toward him with a stick, when Joe Skaggs, Calvin's brother caught him and wrenched the stick out of his hands. Skaggs got another stick, this time a seasoned hickory, about three feet long and the size of a man's arm, and started at Warren a second time, Warren backing and brother of Skagg again interfering, but not enought to hinder him from strikin