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AonCONTINUED1FltOM PAGE 1.SPORER MURDERSTIRS CAMP OPORLABOR MINEfcporer. lils friends claim, Lheu walked over lo tin? negro, whose uumi' they refuse to divulge, uni I puts nig his hand 0*1 the mun’s slicukicr, told him lie whs under nixes t.Tlie negro Cell back i\ few feet from the constable. Then It.wins a shot rang out from behind. The bullet entered Spore rs left side three indies below Mm heart. He died vi itlihi nu hour alter being take to Ills home al theensi : til StI herein plady ! JoLto [it if' he. i; piwci:f Kl . Ion? hlHV(complan! midj and joirt i bomedge of the .mining ramp.I OrExcitement Prevails,Pandemonium reigned fur a short time. Wilson, tlie * pres blent: of Hie union, wont out the back window of the school bouse witli the charier of the union in his hand, lie went to Ankeny and then carac lo tin* I.Je.s Moines police station.Slier iff lien Kcss - was notified. and went ut oiled to the cant p.* He'arrested two men. but I hey were released Inter, as he was convinced that they were not implicated In the trouble.. The school house \vs\h soon- cleared, Imt the Hien lt;1 let not go to their homes. Until late in the morning scares of minors stood iu groups talking over the crime.: ; . .Hut everyone in Ch ain bar keeps his longue ijulet today. Strange is are not welcome, ami otic.'can site several men I'uVuruiiig lioiuo from limit lug, always returning home, but with no rabbits [u tlieh- game ban*.Forty H oho m Inn men thronged the nmnil collage of Spurer this morning. Twenty snt nrcuiid the dining room I able crowded In get her. As many timi-fi slood mid walked restlessly iibnut the room. In the room nexttlioaij hiy the dead body nt their CQpi-r;ido nml cnnniiyimiu, shot in the act or duly undei UUeii for an adopted country.Ihwu at Owen’s company store tliir-ly negroes stood together. Their talk was low. In the other end of the store ten or fifteen white men gathered. Their eouvcrsnUwi could not be heard.And 'UTiKs* ihj street from her home! don dretl1 -wj Mov ’ hornj.a ,] who1*001’ '.he I “sitf IIUUI to t:I lie I: The Si Marwoi: joh Mvs Mat on IConstable Frank Spnm-, .Murdered Friday K3g1it.* a friend's collage Mrs. Hpom-r the omig willow, her head bowed, helves red, sal IhlisUing—tharifchi;;— linking.Her twu-r car-old child pi ay oil on the onr. Hut Mis*. Sparer tlocs not speak. F very Hi lug must come out In the ud, Mbcs saiid.H prir Mu iouthide■ E wni con out to c plat ove S win Son ado say.cca:vprandHutagolarstrorleda tleveifindpcrJloci-qVk!coldLCitihisram
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 11, 1909
Page 14
Full Page
Clipped by
Myke G.
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