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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1912
Page
3
Witnesses describe Harrevine scene after Murcer as prosecutors present letters and other evidence of intense jealousy. Defense cites insanity. testimony covers Mrs. Pine and Miss Ping, a gun, and a sequence ending with the shot and unconsciousness.
Readable fragments describe a dramatic shooting case with statements from witnesses including James Currie and Maude, detailing motives, a Bedford affair, and police questioning. Notes reference a court appearance, the victim’s worried witness accounts, and a suicide note seeking burial wishes tied to a 1912 event.
Eight months after Maude Ping shot her husband at their South J street home the case began in the Lawrence Circuit Court. Witnesses described the shooting scene with Mrs Ping and her stepchildren and the defense faced testimony from relatives and neighbors.
Police report a rumor of a plot to dynamite the new sedimentation basin under construction by Ewing Shields. A man heard several men plotting to blow the site with dynamite, to be stolen from local quarries. Authorities view the tale as doubtful and unsubstantiated.
Judge Orm O Swails on Tuesday named Robert Elison Charles McCarrell and Mike Wallacs as the committee to conduct the recount of the recent election in the contest filed by the three men. The court ordered the recount to begin Tuesday at 1 00 p m and projected a duration of about thirty six hours or more.
Funeral of William R. Bunn of North Street was conducted at 2 PM from his home by Rev. Haste. Burial followed at Green Hill Cemetery.
Paris Trisler foreman of the Smithville section crew won first prize again this year for best kept section. John Hurley of Borden took second in J. E. Shoulty's division, and Harvey McCully of Quincy earned second prize on the north end under Superintendent Cornwell Bloomington World.
Mrs. Sallie Duncan and Mrs. Lizzie Yerber of Bowling Green Kentucky visited Mrs. J W Newland en route to Bloomington for the Hill Duncan wedding on Thanksgiving Day.
The prisoner, extremely pale and coughing, endures a long confinement as jurors are struck for a capital case. The state appears poised to seek the death penalty after jurors are sworn at 2 30 this afternoon and opening statements begin.
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