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Bloody courtroom gunfire ends in murder and chaos
In Terry Haute Indiana Henry F McDonald convicted of arson killed Chief of Detectives Wm E Dwyer and wounded three officers and a bystander after jurors returned a guilty verdict He fired at Prosecuting Attorney James A Cooper Jr missing as Cooper ducked The man was overwhelmed by officers and sent to a hospital The incident ties to earlier Sanford arson cases at stores and a Methodist church in 1907 with related arrests and trials lingering.
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Terry Haute
Ind
Henry F. McDonald
Circuit Court
Wm E. Dwyer
McDonald
Sanford
James A.cooper, Jr
Cooper
Dwyer
Harvey V. Jones
Ira Wellman
Sylvester Doyle
J. T. Walker
Crane
J.W. Erne
Sadford
Henry McDonald
James Scanlon
Scanlon