Name: Long-time Beaver Island contractor Jude Martin is severely injured in a Grand Rapids mugging
Start: 2003-01
End: 2003-01
Location: Beaver Island

Long-time Beaver Island contractor Jude Martin is severely injured in a Grand Rapids mugging

Also Jude Martin mugging 2003 · Beaver Island BITA building contractor assault

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TypeEvent

Date2003-01

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2003-01
Kind: Crime
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communityconstruction
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The January 2003 Beacon reported that Jude Martin, a long-time contractor associated with Island structures including the new BITA building, was severely mugged at his Grand Rapids home and was not expected to recover.

Evidence limits

This brief report uses the newspaper’s preliminary account and does not establish suspects, charges, or the eventual medical outcome.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 2003, “Jude Martin.”
Reports that long-time contractor Jude Martin was severely mugged in Grand Rapids, possibly by tenants he had evicted, and was not expected to recover at the time of publication. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-01_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, January 2003, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the January 2003 report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-01_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Long-time Beaver Island contractor Jude Martin is severely injured in a Grand Rapids mugging”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/jude-martin-mugging-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2003, “Jude Martin.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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