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JEALOUSWIFE ANDWHITESELFTIMESGEORGE HILL, COLORED. BARBER, LAST NIGHT SHOT AND INSTANTLY KILLED HIS WHITE WIFE THEN HE FIRED THREE SHOTS INTO HIS OWN BREAST, BUT FAILED TO J£JLL HIMSELF —NOW LIES AT THE HOSPiTAL PRAYING FOR DEATH—TRAGEDY PREMEDl-❖v*V❖*VV❖*VV❖*❖•❖*❖-* . - ‘‘ - . - - ‘ • ■ -:-.v ’ -* ❖ ❖ * * ❖ * ❖ ❖ • * lt;* * * * * *■ DEATH WARRANT. Well, Fobbv, 1 played the life game and you know what a mis*»♦ erable failure 1 have made. I told you if anything ever started to hand the wallop and more, I would hang the impodity on and k hope I have not been mistaken. Plant me in the same grave on ray fathers’ lot if you can and if ■* not, buy a lot. 1 want some pinies, l» a bunch of white and red. placed I* on the grave and the lot'built up * all new.❖ Take that §266 insurance I* what 1 have in,the union, if there is any. and see that we get buried * right. t * T won’t pray their death bed • religion and cry. for 1 liuvc lived a fast life through the past andI* wil ltake what's coming to me. Please sec that Charley gets alliof my personal property, such asis upstairs. Spend the coin planting Silty. Regards to all,Yours, NIFTY.From Tliurmluy’s Daily,Crazed by jealousy and despondentbecause bis white wife would not.igain live with him, George Hill, colored barber, employed at Fen Brooks’ barber shop, last night at the home of die wife’s step-father, Claybournc Lewis, Eel river avenue, fired three bullets into her body, killing her instantly. Then he turned the smoking revolver upon himself and sent the ,email)ing two bullets into bis breast. Fearing that the wounds might not be fatal, be hastily shoved another bullet into the gun and fired again. The wife is now at Kroeger Strain’s morgue, and the murderer and would-be suicide is at St. Joseph’s ..hospital, cursing and damning fates, because he still lives. Seemingly, his blasphemy will avail little, for physicians statej .that he will survive to either pay the%penalty of his crime on'the. gallows, or end the rest of his existence in Michigan City prison. . 5 That the .deed was premeditated is \• T jproven by the letter which was found on his person at the hospital, followingthe. shooting. He had planned a* t * •double tragedy and in this letter which was directed to Harry Brooks, colored, he urged that he and his lily-white9 • * *wife be “planted together/’ He evenwent so far as to specify what kind of* • »flowers he .wanted on his grave, and». f . ' k ' * *i • * - - - • ^ :left instructions that the mound be liuilt up and kept in good shape) He made disposal of his worldly etfectsED.ed the death warrant of his wife andthought that he had scaled his own.His every action was deliberate. In the afternoon he visited Mt. Hope, viewed the grave where he thought his body would soon be lying, andteven got down on his knees and pulled out weeds gjowing on the grave of his father. He threw some cobble stones and then walked back to the lt;*ity.iHill returned to work, and the last person he .shaved was Coroner George0. Miller, who little dreamed that*within an' hour he would be called to view ihe remains of a person who had died as the result of revolver shots fired by the hand (hat was then drawing a razor across his face. Hill seemingly, was very steady; he did his work as wed as usual and was cheery and light hearted. But it was only, on the surface. When he quit, he walked about town several times and then went direct to the Lewis home back of McGaughey’s old sa-9 %loon on Eel River avenue. He advanc-\ed boldly' to the door and rung the bell. The summons was answered by his wife. According to Hill’s own story, told at the hospital, she tried to prevent his era ranee. He thrust heraside and entered. He demanded that*she leave her mother’s home and go back and live with him. The wife re-9fused. Hill asked her if she ever in-€✓tended to again live with him, and according to the story which he told between curses and moans, she hotly retorted that she did not.Enraged, he pulled a thirty-eight-calibre revolver from his pocket and pointing it full, at her, fired. Wounds which the woman suffered are mute» ♦ *;♦ lt;• lt;* lt;♦ ♦***MAY BE THE REASON.When the Elite club entertain- * ♦ ed the members ot the Black ❖ v Patti show troupe after the per- ♦ ♦ fonuance here seevral weeks ago • Mrs. George Hill, the murdered ♦ woman, attended the blow-out, ♦ and. it is said, danced most of ♦ the dances with one of the mem- *;•» bers of the company—a dashing • colored sport. Her attention to • liim was so marked that it at- ❖ traded attention. It is stated 3* that it is this that aroused Hill’s ♦* jealousy and rage, and that he •* nursed it in silence until last • v» night. Mrs. Hill was an uncom- ❖ v monly pretty white woman twen- ♦❖ tv-four years old. Her mother * * married a negro when she was ♦ • small, and her associates all her ♦ v life had been colored pco])le. ❖ 3* When she married, she married a lt;•negro. • ****v*V*❖ ❖ * * ♦ ♦ * ❖ ♦ ❖ c* * * ❖ ♦:*of the murderer was lying in a huddled heap on the other side. Seemingly both were dean, but Dr. Joseph Rub-suin and Coroner Miller, who almost*instantly were on the scene, found. Hill still alive. The dead woman was sent to Kroeger Strain’s morgue and L i ill was placed in the ambulanceand conveyed to St. Joseph’s hospital.«The wife was alone in the house when Hill called. Her mother, (white) was attending a lodge' meeting, and her step-fatlier, Claybournc Lewis, (colored) was in the back yard. An open book lying on a table in the room showed'what she had been doingwhen the door hell rang. It was “The♦Marriage of William Ashe,” and Mrs.evidence of the struggle f which she j Hill left it in a very exciting part, to made for life. As he raised the gun . answer the summons of her husband she grabbed the barrel and tried to , and death. Lewis heard the first twothrust it aside. Hill fired and the bullet clipped away one finger, went thrugli the fleshy part of her arm above the elbow, and then sank into her breast near the heart. Three shotswere fired in quick succession. It isishots, but thought it was blasting at Kenneth. He entered the house as Hill was slipping the last bullet into his gun and was turning it on himselh The murderer was so excited that* he did not see the old man enter. Lewispossible that the first shot caused 'did not wait to sec whether or not the death, but before the body fell to the pair was dead, but ran to police head-ficor, another bullet crashed through 1 quarters and notified the officers. ’ Cap-I * '*her teeth and - mouth and another j tain George H. Graham and Sergeantpenetrated her breast. Hill then turn- Morirs hurried -to the scene. Dr. ed the gun on himself and pulled the Rubsam and Dr. Miller were not far trigger. He fired two shots, but seem- I behind. ' ' ‘ingly neother reached a vital spot. He J Drs. Palmer and Hauk performed areached into a pocket, secured another (post-mortem examination of the body (bullet slipped it into the gun and again of the dead woman at the . morgue, turned it upon himself and fired. He Dr.,Miller and several, other physicians^ f ^ £ t ' * • t , ,i . • ’ ' * . ' . ,J • . • § . «fell prostrate to the floor; When the ’.besides newspaperT men lt;witnessed It.? police arrived the dead) body of the It was- found that three shota^ had; eu-wife was lying In a big pool of blood
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Logansport Semi Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Fri, May 15, 1908
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