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tswyindWtin-ledmyofithntiioyfe,JiyC.«dellimbe».odheoned.4 ^i * -7-Most Misl of Borderer(Continued from Pag* One)•• . •• f.deprwkHi filled with hj*h grass. Thbaity uttered net* sound and Shift made no effort to locate it.Th* baby was not found until alnos an hour after the shots were fired, whei the mother waa able to tell in bn*« sentences where the baby was. Man, hurried to the *pot indicated by th mother and there the child was onin jured and smiling.Both Mrs. Thacker and Mrs. Shafe were conveyed to the neighboring hou» of Joha Tates, and medical aid summonad.Mr*. Shafer knew she waa dying am asked that her baby he brooght to her With her heart breaking at the baby'i smile, she took the little daughter ii her arras and said: “My boy ia dead I know. I beard the shot. I air dying. Charlie killed me. AU thlt; suffering I ever had he caused.” Witt these word*, uttered with clinchedit’s,atr-?djyreie7-fi-i-iy;o;otroKI-+awteeth, ihe passed away.The fiendishnett of the murder of bis eight-year-old ion ia beyond human comprehension. A searching party, following the trail left by the dragging of the boy through the brush, sooc came upon the lifeless form of fferschel Shafer. He was lying on his stomach and in his back were two gaping wounds,About the wounds the. coat which he wore had caught fire, showing that the fiend had thrown him to the ground, and after he had fallen on his face, had placed the gun directly to his back and fired.Stopping long enough • to place another shell in the gun, he again fired in the back of the prostrate boy, this time between the shoulder blades.Not a sound was heard except the report of the gun. When the searching party arrived where the dead boy waa lying, no sign of Shafer could be found. •The next day, however, a posse of citizens of the vicinity, armed with shotguns, rifles and pistols, continuing the search for the murderer, found his body in the woods near the home of his mother, cold in death, the supposition being that he took, his own life-by administering poison upon realizing theimpossibility of making his escape.! Mr- and Mrs. Shafer had lived unhappily together, and the husband, deserting his home'and family, had lived several years in the west, to avoid prosecution for brutal treatment of his wife. On his recent return their troubles broke out afieshr and MrE. Shafer driven to desperation by the roost revolting cruelty, had her husband placed under arrest. He was released from custody on.bond, and it was on the day the trial was to take place he committed i his diabolical crime.
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Raleigh Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1907
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