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tsMost fi^fc J of Murderersaytnd*r,In-tednyofithillnyto,y5,-D.»dellmto0.sd36HI*3(Continued from Pig* One) .ttprmkwrfllled with high Ctw. The baby uttered not a sound iu Shafer made no effort to locate it.The baby vu not found until tlmoet an hour after the abate were fired, when the mother wae able to tell In broken sentence! where the baby wae. Many hurried to the «pot indicated by the mother and there the child waa unin-* jured and smiling.Both Mra. Thacker and Mr*. Shafer were conveyed to the neighboring house of Joba Tatee, and medical aid eum* mooed.Mrs. Shafer knew she was dying and asked that her baby be brought to her. With her heart breaking at the baby rismile, ah# took the little daughter In her anna and said: My boy u dead. I know. I heard the Shot. I tun dying. Charlie killed me. AU the suffering I ever bad he caused. Withtheae word*,. uttered with clinchedi-teeth, she pawed away.The fiendiahntea of the murder of his eight-year-old ion ia beyond human comprehension, A searching party, following the trail left by the dragging of the boy through the brush, soon came upon the lifeless form of Hefsehel Shafer. He was lying on his stomach and in hia 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 tbe 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 was lying, no sigh of Shafer could be found.The next day/however, a posse of citizens of the Yiciirity, 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 afresh, and Mrs. Shafer driven to desperation by the most revolting cruelty, had her husband placed under arrest. -He was released from eustody on bond, and it was on the day the trial was to take place he committed ki9 diabolical erime.iCftPrr
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Raleigh Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1907
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