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■WOMAN HELDirFOR MURDERSCWIFE OF FORMER VILLAGE SCHOOL TEACHER AL-| LEGED TO HAVE ADMITTED KILLING..1:SfthfoCALDWELL. O./-dec, 12.-Mrs.Iva Wickham. 2s. wia charged w 11 h murder in the first degree totlay In’ • 1. I|r| connection .with the death of her! p. husband, Clarence. 35#, who was! ^ shot und killed at. their home atSutmnerfield, fifteen miles east offi here. . , |Mrs. Wickham w:ia arraigned bo! fore Mayor E. F. I’llman for exseipprikin*ua-,ui •- • • *■ ^ animations nad was bound over to,Li. ' witi. i PiI1(the Nobel county grand jury with out bond. Her case will be con-, sidered January 5th when the, w grand jury is scheduled to convene.! tti County authorities said that Mrs. | hi [' Wickham had given them a signed] Jlt;I confession that she murdered her, in husband, a^ former Summerfleld ' Ci! school teacher, as he sat before a j b; ,) fireplace reading and smoking. The; tf , I shooting occurred shortly after;.| Mrs. Wickham had sent her two \ small daughters, Maybelle, 10 and Bortlfa, S. to school.The death was first investigated rlt; by Coroner lT. 11. Brubach„ who re- oi turned a formal verdict of suicide ; r* !? after the woman had told him that A Wickham shot himself because of t( ill health. Further investigation re-1 M vealed however, that the bullet had entered the back of the man's neck* After hoqrs of questioning, Mrs. Wickham broke down under the grilling and shortly after midnight she confessed, officials stated.that W'UVKpvrtmurdered was first advanced when blood stains were discovered on hliwife's dress and stockings. CoronerRrtabacu said that ho found the Mcalibre revolver with whi'h Wickham was killed on the index finger of the dead mau’a hand. His pipeII was alto in that hand.bifrtlditPTftuci
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Marysville Evening Tribune
Marysville, Ohio, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1930
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