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PROBING DEATH Of FRANK HARPERCORONER AND PROSECUTOR TAKE UP INVESTIGATION.Former Official Held That Waipet Harper Came to His Death Atthe Hands of His Wife.Coroner James G. Blower, of Gfor, was called hero yesterday after* noon to hold an inqueHt over the remains of Frank Harper, who died yesterday noon from a bullet woundreeoived Tuesday night at the restaurant of his wife on I lean avenueA post-mortem vn held that show*dtl that the bullet had entered at a point near the heart and ranged upward. lodging in his right shoulder almost at the hark of the neck. Onerib had been severed, am! there wasno mark of the powder upon tits shirtor body as there would have beenhad the revolver been iteid close tohim when fired. Experiments weretried by shooting into the shirt from \arkms distsoiees. and It was shownthat tin1 revolver must have been held at n considerable distance from liari per when the fatal shot was fired.|. I’roscentol* Foster, in rompahy w itbt * k I I - i I - . fit •» a %«r Jh'M #* la* * 1 I . \ •ti.tii iktttui**I\1*,tieirother oftieers, went to the restaurant and questioned .Mrs. Harper very closely as to how the shooting oeenrred. While lor stories told at different times were not the same, sheat all times protested that Harpershot himself. Her story w as about asfollows:*i Harper had sent to Parkersburg r j and purchased a ouart of wtmkey and they drank it, being still intoxicated from its effects at the time of the | rhootmg. Harper wanted to go to the money drawer for more money to i get more whiskey and his wife en j tered a protest. Then they got into it r | and in the melee the wife was kicked t j on the hip. She ran from the room, and ar she left he pulled out a revolver and shot himself. She screamed for help and neighbors came In.The neighbors say they did nothear any screams. and that whenthey eattte in Mrs. Harper said, ‘ liarkey’s shot?” The revolver was a No found under the pillow by the officers who had been called. When John n Gleason went into the room after • help had lieen Kummoned, Harpere said, “Why did she shoot me? re*£ posting this several times.He claimed that his wife bad fired tin* shot up to the time of Us diitth. r i and declared that he was done for this time/’ and that she had got him. *| Mrs. Harper was arrested last nigh* on the charge of murder, preferred a by Coroner Blower In the affidavit h it is alleged that the murder was pro-n meditated, thus making the chargethe most serious, of the first degree.lo Mrs. Harper was placed in j.u* last• night The cum' will be further in***rS*IsO’*snvestigated next Week when the Ocifr r grand jury meets. Harper and his wife had led a mar-is 1 . ied life full of trouble, But re. mol'»- she tll«d a divorce suit against him,ti but they bad effected a reconciliation or and the suit van to be dismissed. le- j Ha: pet; w as an exjs rt linesman and when aohef was an industrious. Intelligent and tynd hearted man. For anumber of years he v .is employed onthe B. o H.-W. railroad as a brahe-av man and lineman, and his death wasj'.,! heard of with regret by many persons Ilia worst enemy ,vas himself,in that ho was a bard drinker attimes fits funeral services will b held Friday afternoon at 2 o'* lock at the home of his slater, Mrs, BayRichey, on North fourt street, eon -lt; by itev. Boden. Interment,sn the Futon street cem-inturo-di-md
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Athens Daily Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 21, 1909
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