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Farmer Kills Jobless Man Stealing Tree for Tots; Wife Also Badly WoundedELYRIA, O., Dec. 22.—(Ul»—Will Case, a bearded farmer known to youngsters as “Santa Claus” because he gives them nickles every year, demanded his freedom from jail Friday night so he could guard his Christmas tree farm where he killed a man and wounded his wife for stealing a tree they could have had for the asking.Fanner Case, 84, said he was “sick of having my trees stolen.” Early Friday he lay in ambush in the darkness and killed William Rousseau, 37 and jobless, and wounded Mrs. Rousseau as they triedGOOD MORNINGCast You Carve? Valuable Data More White Meat Unique CelebritiesBy JACK RUTLEDGETOMORROW IS Christmas Day and both of our readers will be so busy Saturday they won’t have time to read the column, io why write the thing?But, inasmuch as Good Morning must fill its allotted space,to haul away a tree they wantedto go with a dollar’s worth of dime-store toys for their two daughters.Became AnnoyedFarmer Case, chewing gum and stroking his thick, white beard, told how he became annoyed at authorities’ inability to stop the plundering of his trees, which he sells every year, and decided to guard them himself.Huddled quietly in the cold snow, he saw Rousseau and his wife drive up and cut down a tree. As they started to haul It to their car, Farmer Case fired, without warning, reloaded his shotgun, fired again and then strolled by them to a neighbor to chat about(See SANTA—Page 2, CoL 1)
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Sat, Dec 24, 1938
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