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Mrs. Harn admits shootingOSHKOSH - Helen Harn testified this morning that she shot her ex-husband, Mack, on April 13, 1971, as he stood in a bedroom doorway of his Town of Vinland home.She told of going to the house to talk to him about terms of a divorce settlement in which she thought he was going to provide her with a house. She found the door locked and saw a woman, whom she identified as Sylvia Messing of Oshkosh, through a window. Then she said that because she was afraid of Mack she went back to her car and took out a rifle which she had bought earlier in the day for her son's birthday.She put one shell in the gun and entered the house and saw Mack lying nude on the bed. “1 was disgusted, thoroughly disgusted.”She said Mack moved from the bed and stood in the doorway with a curtain i wrapped around himself. Sylvia took a step and Mack moved — they both moved —the gun went off.”She said she did not know that Mack was hurt at first because he was covered with the drape.“I went out to get another bullet —for me. I didn't want to live.”She said she wanted to shoot herself with both of them looking on.Then she said, I don’t remember anything until someone was hitting me on top of the head. Sylvia was telling me, ‘Helen, stop it.’“I said, ‘Yes, teacher. Yes, teacher/ ”Mrs. Haro, who took the stand shortly after 9 a.m. today, recounted events leading up to the shooting. She said Mack gave her an engagement ring on Oct. 15, 1970, and told her they would be re-married. The couple was divorced in 1969.However, she told of other women who he had been calling on the phone and seeing. She continued to help him out in his Neenah furniture store. She said she was glad to help him and thought he was going to settle down.When she found out he had been seeing Mrs. Messing, Mrs. Harn set up a meeting for the three of them at a truckstop early in the morning of April 6. I was fighting for all it was worth,” she testified.She told Mrs. Messing a marriage between her and Mack couldn’t work. She said she finally gave up and drove back to her rural Nekoosa home, crying all the way.Mrs. Ham said she took a bottle of headache pills after she got home from the meeting with Mack and Mrs. Messing. A neighbor came over and called a physician who said an overdose of the pills would only create a numbness tothe legs.The nett day, Mrs. Ham called her husband’s store and found out that he and Mrs. Messing had gone to Georgia on a business trip. *■Each of the Ham’s 11 children was called by defense attorney Allan Cain to testify.Michael, 32, the oldest, said, “There is nothing that he wanted of my mother Continued on Page 2
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Appleton Post Crescent
Appleton, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1972
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