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Murderer Shafer Slays Family Then Fleees Under Fire
In Huntington Ohio today Chas Shafer a farmer killed his wife Carrie his six year old son Hearshal and mother in law Mrs George Thacker on a Rockwood road. He shot and killed the boy after dragging him into brush and attempted to burn the bodies as bloodhounds and 200 armed men pursue him. Police and sheriff lead the chase as a seven room house ad appears in the same column.
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Huntington
W. Va
Ohio
Chas Shafer
Carrie
Hearshal
George Thacker
Shafer
Rockwood
Lawrence County
Polic