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WEDNESDAY, SEPT.SLAYS SHOOTSTIllinois Man Crazed by Liquor Seriously Wounded After RampageEAST CLINTON, 111., Sept. 5. (U.R)—Fiery bootleg liquor and a thirst for revenge—five persons dead, a sixth critically wounded and the killer In a hospital with two stomach wounds. | wThat was the police story in j brief today of a few minutes of Vterror and horror in which Fred Blink, 45-year-old farmer and Ittruck owner, shot and killed two wewomen and three unarmed men, wnwounded another, and was himself $1!shot by Chief of Police Frank Kus- wotes of Fulton. 111., as he attempted ; niato blow off his head with a shotgun.The dead:Mrs. Timothy H. Corrick, Des Moines.John Hamilton. Fulton farmer.Mrs. Jennie Walters, Sterling,111., Blink's housekeeper.Henry Menje, Belvidere, 111Webb Collier, brother of Mrs.iyWaltersPhysicians at the Jane Lamb 1Hospital in Clinton said Joe Col- Soilier, aged farmhand, probably ingwould die. Blink, taken first to tieClinton and then to a hospital in , the Marrison, 111., was in dangerous thecondition. mePent-up Rancor Police said the mass slaying was rescaused by a brain addled by drink taband pent-up rancor, Hamilton1 faJ]Blink’s partner for year, they said. of rented from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in his own ,y name the farm the two had oper- Hated together. Hamilton notified theBlink that their partnership was w‘tended.In an ugly mood, heated by onfsteady drinking for several days. wirBlink climbed into his truck yester- ,0°day afternoon with the announce- moment that he was “going to find ; un*Hamilton.'* Timothy Corrick. hus- whlband of the slain woman, said he couwas wildly enraged when he left 1the house. °h,A few hours later Blink drove n®up to the farmhouse. Corrick saw lhea shotgun in his hands and fled , I or help. He heard Blink roar: m“Come on outside-o-there—ev-ery one of vou.**Shot in Bark | “uPolice reconstructed the ensuing M scene from the heap of bodies in the farm yard. Hamilton was absent but the four other victims must have come hesitatingly from the house. They saw Blink s gun, and sensed his mood One man; fled The others followed.As they ran Blink mowed them ! ,down, his 12-gauge gun shattering P their barks with buckshot. JeelHe left the farm and started across the bridge toward Clinton *On the wav he encountered Hamil- of*'ton: shot him without warning Kustes was driving onto the bridge approach as Hamilton fell Blink T*fired at his car Then standing in 1the road, he rested the butt of his wa8gun on the ground and pulled the trigger with the muzzle near his chelt;head. The charge mangled his coulforehead but did not wound him lf 1seriously. _Kustes fired twice with his re- ! volver. both shots striking Blink insowhilogbrii
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Wed, Sep 05, 1934
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