Article taken from the Chester Times, Chester, PA, June 24, 1884
Portsmouth, O., June 24
As the steamer Minnie Bay arrived at Portsmouth with a crowd of excursionists, a dispute arose between Richard Duckworth, of Syracuse, and George Fox, colored, of Huntington. Duckworth crushed Fox's skull with a beer bottle. Duckworth is in jail and Fox is dead. This is Scioto County's second murder within two days.