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fiFORCES CHILD TO KILL HIManeous §BSSMMOas9the fly.watchtheng of the e held thisg in good aproved by rag.making the Be ready visits your:g, is a big r. The tale a great big devil ani-can*t affordity of tem-roprietor of Butler, Pa., f the Nixon i Township, for divorce tfixon. They rs ago atittee of the eteran’s as-n Williams* eir annual tel, in that day. Thertf in the or* of a home e taken upa ford Era: iora McKin-[, of Kane, t the homeSALE 01Union City Man Driven insane by Titanic Disaster, Shoots Aged Wife and Then Makes Grandson Blow H is Brains Out. Boy Tells of Death Threat.Erie, Pa., April 20.—Driven insane by reading of the horrors of the Titanic wreck, Stephen Wellman of Union City, today brutally murdered his aged wife, calmly reloaded the gun and compelled his grandson to shoot him down.“Pull the triggers/* cried the insane man, “If you don't I’ll kill you.” And the frightened lad did as themaniac commanded* He pulled thetrigger, the insane murderer curled up on the floor with his head almost torn off and the little hoy, crying hysterically, rushed out of doors. Three neighbors, attracted by the shots of the gun, found him.“Grandpa made m* do it; he said he would kill me,” the little boy cried. Gradually he told the story of the frgihtfui crime, a crime almost unparalleled. He told how his grandfather, violently insane, had shot down his pleading and helpless wife, how the maniac had laughed at her cries for mercy, how he reloaded the deadly shot gun, placed it across a chair in the kitchen and compelled him to pull the trigger.He told how he feared he would be killed, for he had seen his grandmother shot down; he told how, with closed eyes, he pulled the trigger that sent the deadly shots scattering through the diseased brain of tbe old man; how he saw him crumpled up j on the floor, and how he ran away from the awful sight.-o-State Ccrran*Craw to ri mentionedCommissicconcerning quate Iawi this state,and quail, says: “Iicounties v birds exte ber of thecounties q ness to ei market, tl either deli ing into tlshipped lwithin an« The fae sportsmen ruffed gro showing tl hunters toThe rep of game b dying of s sive cold greatly ex of them b Thirty lt;State gam and a like land resei State paidTry onehicToirr rwAMr.pn
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Kane Daily Republican
Kane, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Apr 22, 1912
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