Gus Rippleton
Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 April 1885, page 7
NEWPORT
Yesterday during a game of baseball at the foot of Williamson
street, two young men by the name of Gus Rippleton and Strauss became involved
in a quarrel during which Rippleton struck Strauss in the head with a baseball
bat and inflicted an ugly wound.
Officer Bartle captured Rippleton after a long and exciting chase and lodged him in the station house.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 March 1887, page 16
Detective Cunningham yesterday brought back from Newport on
requisition papers Gus Rippleton, colored and twenty years of age, who recently
tried to kill a rival names Reeves in the Wiggins Block and then fled to the
Kentucky side.
Rippleton is locked up at Central Station charged with shooting with intent to kill.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 October 1892, page
NEWPORT
D J Herskins (colored) was arrested last night for malicious
shooting. He and Gus Rippleton, also colored, had some words on Saratoga street,
when Herskins drew a revolver and banged away. The bullet went wide of its mark.
Herskins was arrested once for beating his wife and is a would be politician. A good lengthy Work house sentence would teach him a lesson.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 May 1894, page 6
NEWPORT
Gus Rippleton was fined $5 and costs by Squire Bodkin yesterday
for assaulting another colored man named Jim Spring, who was fined $5 and costs.
Rippleton in turn swore out a warrant for Smith's arrest, charging him with using insulting and abusive language, and his case was set for this morning.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 October 1900, page 8
Mrs. William Lumpkins, colored, lodged complaint at headquarters last night against Wash Rippleton, also colored. She says that he came to her house last night and after knocking her out of her chair, hit her in the eye and then threw her and the chair off the porch. She was told to go to Judge Dumont and get a warrant.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 October 1900, page 15
It was Gus and not Wash Rippleton against whom complaint was lodged in the Police Force yesterday morning by Mrs. William Lumpkins. In Court yesterday morning he was place under $50 bond to keep the peace.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 October 1900, page 8
Gus Rippleton, charged with assaulting Mrs. Sarah Lumpkins, was fined $20 and costs in Police Court yesterday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 April 1901, page 7
Gus Rippleton, colored, died 9 April 1901; buried Evergreen