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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1896
Page
2
The Ellis Kansas election brought a woman mayor and a council entirely composed of women, with prohibition as the key issue. The report notes broader concerns from U S and foreign policy to sensational crime and scientific claims, including a Havana execution and early photography theories.
Body of Mrs. Martha Rech was found strangled near May's Landing New Jersey. Autopsy found two handkerchiefs used to throttle her with a repeated knot. Husband John Rech is accused. motive linked to a will leaving assets to their child and control by the husband. Neighbor Samuel Jones tipped police after discovering a fresh grave and reports of a prior shooting claim.
The scene reveals no struggle as the victim was strangled with a handkerchief linked to the husband. An ax dent matches blade marks on tree chips cut after the grave was buried, aimed to hide the grave but miscalculated. The felled tree drew hundreds who visited the site, yet the murderer remained at large.
Warren Crisswell of Macon Georgia confessed at a preliminary hearing to removing a rail on the Southern Railway to wreck two trains killing three people and injuring fifteen. He claims coercion by shotgun wielding Odom Shaw whose wife was aboard. Shaw and his father were arrested as accomplices. Prosecution doubts the gun coercion claim and says both plotted to kill their wives for railroad damages.
Miss Hannah Neil Williams to wed Walter Hobart of San Francisco. Hobart, a popular coach and millionaire, pursued the debutante after introduction by an army officer. The Williams sisters live with grandparents in San Rafael.
The 1873 tale of Jack and Bill Keeler traces their move from Sag Harbor to Arizona, Jack’s turn to highway robbery, Bill the famed Lone Bandit, and their violent ends. Bill’s stage robberies earned him notoriety as Arizona’s most famous outlaw, while Jack served 17 years, pardoned, and died peacefully later.
Mary Ann Farrell was trapped by laundry machinery and had her left arm crushed. She stayed calm and asked for ambulance assistance. At Bellevue Hospital surgeons amputated the arm above the elbow and sewed scalp wounds while she remained conscious. She later slept after the operation and was expected to recover despite shock.
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