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r*TPRICE FOUR CENTS✓CountianSlain in OwnTerror-stricken Wife, DaughterDeath Weapon, Officers Learn9Victim Broke Down DoorsDaniel (Manse) Wyne, 41, a Salt Creek Township farm worker,was killed instantly Tuesday afternoon when he was struck in the leftchest over the heart by a charge from a sawed-off shotgun held by hisestranged wife, Bessie, 38, and a daughter, Ada Lucille, 17, ProsecutorHarley Meyer reported.Magistrate Frank St. Clair, who served as acting coroner in theabsence of Dr. E. A. Person, withheld a verdict pending further investigation by Prosecutor Meyer and Sheriff Floyd Duffy. Meyer was accompanied to the death scene by Deputy Sheriffs Frank Larimer andA. J. Waldron, Mrs. Clara Camp-Common Pleas Court stenographer, and St. Clair. Neither Mrs.Grand ChampWyne nor her daughter was takeninto custody.Prosecutor Meyer reported thatWyne, a former resident of Vinton County, had been releasedfrom the Hocking County Jail at9:30 A. M. Tuesday after serving a 10-day sentence for violation of ain connectionrestraining order with his wife’sdivorce actionwhich was filed in the Court ofCommon Pleas on November 10.The shooting occurred between2:30 and 3 P. M. according to theofficials.Victim Waa DrinkingWyne was arrested recently by Sheriff Duffy for contempt ofcourt after he disobeyed the restraining order preventing himfrom entering upon the premisesHe was al-of his estranged wife, leged to have broken into house and struck his wife andthechildren, threatening to kill them,the prosecutor said.After being discharged from thejail Tuesday morning, investigating authorities reported, Wyne started drinking in a Logan tavern and then hitch-hiked to SouthBloomingville where he continuedWitnesses told officersdrinking, that he was intoxicated before going to his wife’s home.Mrs. Wyne, her daughter, Ada Lucille, and two of the smallerchildren in the family of seven,Betty Jane, 4, and Estella, 2, werein the house when Wyne arrived.Hearing him approach they seized the shotgun, com cutters, mops and brooms and other instruments with which they fearedGRAND CHAMPION STE1R of the22nd national 4-H Congress in Chicago is T. O. Monogram, pictured above with his owner, 17-year old T. Richard Lacy, Jr., of Kansas, HI. This is the third year in succession that Lacy has wan prizes. (Inter national)he might harm them, and fled to a tiny attic room in the house which is located off State RouteZANESVILLE ARMCOPUNT STRIKE CLOSED56, three miles northeast of SouthBloomingville.Breaks Down DoorsZANESVILLE, O., Dec. 8—(/P)Wyne broken open an outerThe American Rolling Milldoor in the rear of the house leading to the kitchen and another between the kitchen and living room.(Continued on page two)BEER PRODUCTION ISTHREATENED BY STRIKEDec.(tf)CINCINNATI,Beer production in this one ofCompany’s Zanesville plant was idle today as ClO-steelworkers picketed the main gate in a dispute termed an “entirely unauthorized and spontaneous” strike by Robert Denman, local union presidentDenman said the controversyprobably involved a company policy concerning workers’ seniority rights. R. C. Little, assistant to thethree principal brewing centers ofmanager of the Armco plant, saidthe disnute also was in nrotest
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Logan Daily News
Logan, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 08, 1943
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