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CONN SHOT WRONG MANADOLPH MOLSBERGER KILLEDON STREETS OF PORTALES.Nineteen-Year-Old Boy Nearly Decapitates Farmer While Seeking Death, of Furniture Man.WAstern Newspaper Union News Service.Portales, N. M.—Firing a ahotgun at i R. E. Curd, a furniture dealer here, Sam Conn, nineteen years old, shot and instantly killed Adolph Mols- ! berger, a farmer of the Rodgers dis- j trict. Curd and Molsberger were walking together. The killing oc j cured in front of the First National bank here, about 8 o’clock at night. , The shotgun charge tore olf Mols-berger’s left ear and literally blew the j back of his head to pieces.Conn is an orphan who made his home for several years with Mrs. Josie German, near Upton. For several months he has been living in Portales. Curd and Conn recently quar- j reled, and Curd warned Conn to keep away from his place of business. On the night of the killing Conn, armed 1 with the shotgun, met Curd and Molsberger, and the quarrel was resumed. Only a few words had passed when the young man raised the gun and fired at Curd, the charge striking Molsberger mstead.As Molsberger fell to the sidewalk Cnrd jumped at Conn, and seized the gun. Sheriff George C. Deen, who ! was but a few feet away at the time of the shooting, arrested Conn and took him to the county jail. The young man’s only comment was, “I’m sorry I killed the wrong man.”Molsberger was a bachelor, fifty ’ years of age. He had been working in Texas, and had just returned to « this section. lt;
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House Pioneer News
House, New Mexico, US
Fri, May 07, 1915
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