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Young Man Breaks Dcor to See Wife and Is Shot by Irate Father.Danville, 111.. Jan. 13.—Ferry Rogers, sixty years old, shot and killed his son-in-law. George La France, as the latter was trying to force his way into the Rogers home.Two years ago La France ran away with Rogers' fifteen-year-old daughter. He was ]a.?er captured and locked up in the Covington, Ind., jail for two weeks. The girl soon left him on account of ill treatment and returned to her father’s home.La France appeared at the Rogers/ home and demanded to see his wife. When he was denied the privilege and ordered to leave he broke down the doo.* and forced his way into the room.Rogers placed the muzzle of an old army musket to the breast of his son-, in-law* and pulled the trigger. The charge tore a great hole in the man’s body, killing him instantly.Rogers gave himself up to the officers, but they did not send him to jail. A year ago he was married to a young woman in Crawfordsville, Ind.
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Jeffersonville National Democrat
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1904
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