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This Day in Minnesota History

January 2, 1883

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Faribault Chief of Police David J. Shipley is fatally shot by Lewis M. Sage. Shipley had attempted to arrest him after Sage threatened to shoot his own wife. Sage is later convicted of manslaughter in the fourth degree and sentenced to four years in the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater.

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