In a one room school house in Red Bud, Illinois, on January 21, 1882 after disciplining a student, James McBride, teacher Robert Bailey was fatally wounded in a scuffle, in which the student stabbed him twice with a knife he was using to sharpen a pencil.
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Robert Bailey
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In a one room school house in Red Bud, Illinois, on January 21, 1882 after disciplining a student, James McBride, teacher Robert Bailey was fatally wounded in a scuffle, in which the student stabbed him twice with a knife he was using to sharpen a pencil.