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TRIED TO RILL HERElmerc Hardy Shot Down Wife as She Greeted Him With a Smile.TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN MARIONSequel cf Marriage of Dancing Matter to Daughter of Prominent BucincoaJiMIttiJuh»-Mon—Life Did Not Run Smooth and t»i They Had Parted.Marlon, Mich.. Jan. 24.—With n rasmile on her face am! tlielr two young child run clinging playfully to her skirls. MW. Mary Hardy wan fatally shot by her husband, Elmer E. Hardy in lho home of her father Monday afternoon.Hardy emptied the contents of a 32-caliber revolver at tils wife, but only two shots took effect. One of these ctruck her just above the heart and the other penetrated bor right lung.Her death Is momentarily expected.The* tragedy is the sequel of the romantic maylnge of Hardy, a volt* n« known dancing mouter, to MIsh Mnrv to Hall, the daughter of WTUlam M. llall. a leading busim-au man of this plftc.* P1 which took place six years am Returns to Her Father.After II vim, hire a short Unto Iha I pair moved to Washington *tai*» Micro Hardy secured a railroad position. I.ift* was not rosy for them however, and after the birth of two | children Mrs. Hardy found her way *lt;■ ' last summer back to the home of hot father.Hardy appeared cn the scene Inst hlt; week, hut made no effort to see bis 1 rli wife until Monday noon, when he ot knocked nt tbo tkmr of the home of hi* tj wife's father. He* was admitted and ft stepping Into tbo silting room naked at to Bee Ills wife.Fires Five Tim©9.Mrs. Hardy came Info the room with her two little children clinging to her g. skirt*. With a smile «ho stepped up ij to greet her husband. ,J)An she did bo Hardy pulled his r* | volvor from his pocket nud bred point 2* blank flvo times at the woman. Sh • | w did not fall until the last shot had fr been flred. when sh. sank uncou^clous i\ to the floof. jiThe two children ran screntn'nc fmm the room and Hardy coolly put the revolver back In his pocket nnd walked out of the house. Physicians r who were summoned pronounced Mrs 1 Hardy's case hopeless. Hardy was yjplaced under arrest as soon as he ar rived downtown and Is now cmi lined 'n w the county Jail. kGBoth Refused to Plead.\fnann \flr*h !:in ‘*4—3»rnilfni»
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Yale Expositor
Yale, Michigan, US
Fri, Jan 27, 1905
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