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Tragedy as Roach opens fire in Canton home killing baby
Robert Roach bench foreman at Berger works on Pennsylvania avenue shoots at his father in law family home at 005 Gibbs street. He kills Ruth Schatzman age 19 and her baby as he wounds Viola Schatzman and Officer Fielding. Roach barricades himself inside the Schatzman residence and is captured after a long standoff. He had been declared insane two years earlier and released after a brief confinement.
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Robert Roach
Berger Works
Ving
Pennsylvania
Adam Schatzman
Gibbs St
W. W. Fielding
Viola O. Schatzman
T Home
Uth Schatzman
Viola Schatzman
Mercyospital
Officer Fielding
Ruth Schatzman
Roach
Schatzman Cine
Pie
Statespital
Massillon
Canton Lumber Co
Rath
Pauly Hagan
Gertrude Goodyear
Ruth Mén
Jacob Schatzman
Akron
Hazel Schatzman
Canton
Frazer