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CRIMES AND CASUALTIESMlrUD£ AND KUXCIDR.JKKKERSONVJX.T.E, Ind., June.6.—Jno. McDermott, a saloon-keeper of this city, said to be under the influence, of liquar most of the lime, committed a horrible murder at 6 o’clock this evening. * He has been in the habit of abusing his wife, who, it is said, was equally abusive to him. She left him. and had applied for a divorce. The trial was set for Wednesday next.: McDermott called at his mot her-in-law’s 'residence, where his wife was, asking her to come back and live with him,, which- she agreed to do on Monday. He ihcn left Ihc house, and returned in ten minutes with a large navy revolver, and found Mrs. McDermott nursing her baby. He raised the weapon, and deliberately ! fired at her.. The ball struck, the baby in the forehead, passing clear through the head,and lodging in the right breast of its mother, producing probably a fatal wound, lie thempbtcecLthe revolver to his head and blew his own brnins out. The baby died distantly, and there is but little hope for the recovery of ils mother. . .
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Logansport Star
Logansport, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 08, 1874
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