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Jealous Husband Slays Peru ManPERU, Ind., March 12.—After pumping six bullets from an automatic pistol into the body of Bartholomew Kimple, 27 years old, who was working in the basement of an unfinished bouse here yesterday afternoon, Paul Horrell, 29 years old, a railway switchman, calmly walked to a residence in the vicinity and told the occupants of the house to call the police. “I. have just killed a man,” he announced. “He tried to break up my home.”Kim pie, his chest riddled with bullets*. crawled from the basement and died in the yard of the house before the arrival of an ambulance. He was: employed as a carpenter by a local, real estate company. * !The murder is the culmination of a long' standing enmity between the’ two men and is believed to have lK*en the result of attentions said to have' been payl by Kimple to Herrell’s wife Nora. 28 years old. Mad with jealousy and enraged at remarks hej had he;ml Kimple made about his wifeIlerrell stajrted on a kumet alone in the basement »»i me un-temuited house. There were no witnesses to the tragedy. .* ' . t «pie shortly before noon.' Herr oil is being held ki the Miami! county jail on a charge of first degree* murder.
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The Washington Herald
Washington, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 12, 1924
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