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WILLIAM GRAY)i.Co.Killed With a Revolver in the hand of Mrs. Martin Friezeam I1LAt Red Mills Thursday About 2:30fO’clock-OneBulIet in Breast and Another in Neck—Death Instantaneous—Murderers in Jail—Witnesses, Etc.0Julu and :po-this t of[arlctwore-ncle \ ofthetherhatitry?arssayiyalrithhimthe; doiontantheoneentthemyereid-rn-1 indspvVe‘an4 mairxty . to3115mia-la-ralLSOJe.mthenkenP-ie-1a!ire00ithhen,k-itratedffl1QgesBOit-n-jr-reinofWilliam Gray was shot and instantly killed Thursday evening at the Red Mills, about three miles west of Fairland, at about 2:30 oclock, by Mrs. Martin Frieze, of Franklin, Ind. There were present at the.time of the shooting Andy and Ashley Ferguson, John Rasp, James Rouse, Ike Williams, Theodore Deitz, Mr.. Brandenburg, Joseph Alexander and Tommie McLane. Martin Frieze with his wife drove up to the mill and she alighted from the buggy and walked around it, and met Gray as he was coming from under the mill to get a block to use in raising the mill under which a stone foundation was being put. When he approached to within seven or eight feet of her, Mrs. Frieze, without uttering a word, flashed a revolver from under her apron and instantly fired. The first ball took effect tc the left of the sternum about one and one-half inches and betweer the third and fourth ribs. This shot undoubtedly struck the heart Gray ran fifteen or sixteen feet to the left of Mrs. Frieze and fell, and she pursuing him, placed the revolver near his neck and fired the second bullet, which took effect in the neck, the skin being considerably powder-burned, but as will appear from the autopsy, he must have been dead when the second shot was fired. The gun used was a 3S calibre.The autopsy held this morning showed a bullet wound in the breast, two inches from the meridian line and three inches from the left nipple and one in the neck, the skin of which was powder burned,about one inch from the upper end of the sternum, and one and one-half inch to the left, from the meridian line of the body. The bullet in the chest went between ribs 3 and 4 of the left side and penetrating the upper lobe of the left lung on the inner side passed through the pericardium and the aorta and pulmonary ar-terieB at the base of the heart and struck the spinal column, glanced to the right and went through the posterior part of the lower lobe of the right lung. The bullet was found lying loose in the lower portion of the right pleural cavity, and the coroner has it in his possession. The bullet in the neck went to the left of the wind-pipeand blood vessels and ranged upward and lodged somewhere in the muscles of the back of the neck. Dr. Frank Campbell and Dr. Morris Drake assisted Coroner Ray in making the autopsy.Mrs. Frieze alleges that William Gray had at her home on two occasions assaulted her and that he had told it to her friends and that she had killed him and was glad of it. She exonerates her husband but the fact that he went with her and aided and abetted her in the commission of an awful crime, we presume, makes him an accessory before the act and afterward too for that matter. Her statements are taken with “a grain of salt” by many on the streets. That there was some deep seated reason for the commission of the crime, no one doubts but that the true reason has been given may bo questioned. The defendants are now in jail here, having been arrested at Franklin that night and brought here by the sheriff, arriving about 2 o’clock next morning.The deceased was well known in and about Shelbyville, lie was quite social, and bad many friends who will regret to hear of his untimely taking off. Ab to the Frieze family they are reported to be of good repute at their home in Franklin.FisEhhaiwTJ]0kiliecilFiMialneth-kiitomipaanbkthitivba(hlt;ertN.St:DcI110 a cSpinfinLeSpwafluOC(colmaintLh of • juc wi! leavexiLirofMr.erjpbinhe;at ino1loojudiueamLir Toi n e
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Shelbyville Shelby Democrat
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 01, 1901
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