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AN EASTER HAT TRAGEDYTwo Chicago Boys Fatally Shot by Young Ladies’ Escorts for'. Admiring Remarks,CHICAGO, Marc 11 31.—GeorgeStrange and Stanley C obi in ski, IB .and 18 years, remarked admiringly on the Easter hat* worn bv two young women, and were perhaps fatally shot by their escort. The 3*011 tig jncn were stunding on . the street earner yesterday. The shooter escaped, as did also the girls.THE CARRIE LARSON MURDER.9The story of the murder of Carrie .Lar-ton a3 bzolleved b\* the authorities, wag presented to a jury today by Assistant State's Attorney Barnes. Louis Toombs, on trial for the murder listened unmoved during the two hours.Barnes told the jurors that Toombs, with a wife living, enticed Carrie Larson to the steamer JVcrless, then lying icebound in the Chicago liurlxr, murdered her and then compelled Robert Reiss ig, a. boy employed oti the boat, to help him carry the body, lieavily weighted,, to a hole in the ice. Keissig later told' the ptory to the police. Toombs has declared he is innocent., and said that the hoy bad'committed the murder, and that he (Toombs) helped him to dispose of the body out of pity,10WAX’S BRUTAL CRIME.DES MOIXES, in.. 3larch 31.—Louis Bussc, chargedA'ith. murdering his wife June IB, I PC 1,-'* was placed on trial atWaver ley this morning, The theory of the prosecution as outlined by the dis-triet attorney fe that Busse married his wife in order to secure twenty-eight'hundred dollars she had obtained in a suit for seduction. Eighteen month 5 later, it is charged he cut her throat and tried to burn her both' and infant.
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Racine Daily Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Mar 31, 1902
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