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Arsonist McDonald Kills Officer in Terre Haute Courtroom
In Terre Haute Indiana during April a jury finds Henry F McDonald guilty of arson. He shoots at Prosecuting Attorney James A Cooper Jr and then fires on officers in the circuit courtroom, killing Detective Dwyer and wounding several others before being fatally shot. The incident follows February 1907 church vandalism in Sanford.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Henry F. McDonald
William E. Dwyer
McDonald
James A. Cooper, Jr
Cooper
Dwyer
Harvey V. Jones
Ira Wellman
Sylvester Doyle
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Crane
Methodist
Sanford
Henry McDonald
James Scanlon
Scanlon
Police Department