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JEALOUS WIFE 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 PREMEDI-❖vA*V❖❖V*V❖*VV❖*❖❖❖*❖❖❖* * ❖ * ❖ ❖ * ❖ *:♦ • * ♦ * * * * ■ DEATH WARRANT. Well, Fobbv, 1 played the life game and you know what a mis-»♦ erable failure I 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 tlie same grave on my lathers’ lot if you can and if » not, buy a lot. I want some pin ins,;• a bunch of white and red, placed :♦ on the grave and the lot'built up * all new.❖ Take that §266 insurance what I have in,the union, if there is any. and see that we get buried * :♦ right. /t* T won’t prav their death bed religion and cry, for 1 have lived a fast life through the past and I* wil Hake what’s coming to me. Please sec that Charley gets alliof my personal property, such asis upstairs. Spend the coin planting Sifty. Regards to all,Yours, NIFTY.From Tliurmlny’s Daily.Crazed hv jealousy and despondentbecause his white wife would nottgain live with him, George Hill, col-jred barber, employed at Ten Brooks’ barber shop, last night at the home of die wife’s step-father, Claybourne Lewis, Eel river avenue, fired three bullets into her body, killing her instantly. Then he turned the .smoking revolver upon himself and sent the -emaining two bullets into his breast. Fearing that the wounds might not befatal, lie hastily shoved another bullet*into the gun and fired again. The wife is how at Kroegcr 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, orend the rest of his existence in Michigan City prison. . !That the .deed was premeditated is j• T *proven by the letter which was found on his person at the hospital, followingthe. shooting. I-Ic had planned a* t * •double tragedy and in this letter which was directed to Harry Brooks, colored, he urged that he and his lily-white, • • * *wife be “planted together/’ He even went so far as to specify what kind of bowers he .wanted on his grave, and. # . • w * * i . # . - - • . •*# :left instructions that the mound beliuilt up and kept in good shape* Hemade 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 cobblestones and then walked back to theiHill returned to work, and the lastperson lie shaved was Coroner George0. Miller, who lie tie dreamed that*within an' hour he would be called to view ilie remains of a person who had died as the result of revolver shots fired by the hand that, was then drawing a razor across his face. Hill seemingly, was very steady; he did liis 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 advance-ted boldly' to the door and rang 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 liiiri. 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;♦ * • ❖❖ ❖ ♦ ❖***MAY BE THE REASON.■When the Elite club entertain- * « ed the members of the Black ❖ v Patti show troupe after the per- ♦ ♦ formance 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- *;•» hers of the company—a dashing • colored sport. Her attention to • him was so marked that it at- • traded attention. It is stated lt;** 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 inotlier ♦ * married a negro when she was ♦ • small, and her associates ail her • v life had been colored peo])le. ❖ * When she married, she married anegro. *❖❖❖v*V❖A%♦ V V Vof the murderer was lying in a huddled heap on the other side. Seemingly both were dead, but Dr. Joseph Rub-sam 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 Li ill was placed in the ambulance and conveyed to St. Joseph’s hospital.4The wife was alone in the house fwhen Hill called. Her mother, (white)*was attending a lodge' meeting, and her step-faflier, Claybourne Lewis, (colored) was in the back yard. An open book lying on a table in the room showed Ay hat 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. HiH fired and the bullet clipped away one finger, went thrugh the fleshy part of her arm above the elbow, and then sank into her breast near the heart. Three shots were fired in quick succession. It is1shots, but thought it was blasting at Kenneth. He entered tlie house as Hill was slipping the last bullet into his gun and was turning it on himself* The murderer was so excited that* he did not see the old man enter. Lewispossible that the first shot caused ’did not wait to see 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-her teeth and - mouth and another ^ tain George H. Graham and Sergeantpenetrated her breast. Hill then turn- Morirs hurried do 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 a reached 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^ , s ^ , ' * • , ^ ,i , * ' ' . ,j • . •, .* «fell prostrate to the llOor. When the ’,besides newspaper men witnessed IfcU police arrived the dead) body of the It was found that three skat*? had en-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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