Man kills wife in sleep then poisons self in Lancaster
In Lancaster Pennsylvania a 19 year old bride Mrs Edgar H Frantz is found dead from a bullet wound to the head and chest after her husband a drug clerk fired two shots while she slept. He later died from morphine after taking poison. A suicide note claimed they planned to die together amid jealous quarrels. Police note no struggle and the husband reportedly accused her of infidelity. The couple had married four months earlier and planned a western visit with her mother.
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Tancaster
Edgar H. Frantz
Frantz
West
Sinking gasoline launch tragedy near Ash Point
Rockland Me Aug 10 six in a gasoline launch for Pleasant Beach were thrown overboard when the craft entangled a fish weir off Ash Point. Two men Crocker and Holmes died, two were rescued, and Oliver Hills and Hodges aided others before the launch sank. A separate Aug 10 report from Akron Ohio notes two tons of dynamite exploded after a lightning strike near Akron Cement, with no fatalities but several injuries and damage. In Wilkes-Barre Pa a woman, Mrs John Jackson, was killed at Harvey's Lake station when crushed by a passing locomotive as she returned home.
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Rockland
Aus
Henry Crocker
Veasie
R. G. Hall
W. Holmes
Ash Point
Pleasarnt Beach
Holmés
Crocker
Oliver Hills
Hal
Hills
Hodges
Akron
Akron . Cement,company
J. H. Price
Erie County
Waeman
Wilkesbarre
John Jackson
Easton
Harvey's Lake
Jackson
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Borth Card
Ashington
Drui
Doll Bros
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Madras
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C. Thomas Kemp
Casey
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