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W. E. Crane Trie* to Kill Hi* Two-Year-Old Daughterv 'And Also Attempt* to Morder HiaX 'ii' * * v^r^' t i * ii ItMother-In-Law.InThIIW. E. Crane, a discharged Pullman palace car conductor, made an unsuccessful attempt to murder bis two-year-old daughter and hia mother-in-law attheir reeidence, 187 Fourth street. lie waa crazed with liquor.“I want tba baby right away, or I’ll i shoot yon,” waa the threat made by Will I E. Crane, a discharged Pullman Palace Car conductor, aa he atood at the top of the aeoond-atory flight of atepa of a bouse at 187 Weat Fourth street and glowered through the glass panes in the kitchen door at hia mother-in-law who stood within. iiHe emphasized hia menace by thrush-Itgn the glass| which he held a revolver.WThe old woman cowered to a corner i \ into which he could not fire, and muttered in broken German:“Ich hub it die baby ea 1st niobt here.” Crane, however, tired at her twice, i I His wife, alarmed at the shots, hastened out of the parlor sndsttjadted. '-tiilra in the rear. » •Hid, attention was momentarily distracted from hia mother-in-law, who, seeing ah opportunity to escape, did so, and summoned the police. Crane stood at the head of the stairs, piatol in hand, and threatened to shoot anv one as*Icending the atepa, but he tin ally sur- !self and waa lockedrendered himself and was locked up at Central Station on a charge of shooting to kill.Crane ia thirty-one years of age, and four years ago married a Miss Asmann, and has lived with her parents since .1then. They have only one child, a beautiful little girl nearly three years of age. Since he lost hia position Friday, he has I'{ l*een on a spree. Only this morning be r | obtained $1 50 from bis wife with which f j to drink. The revolver is a cheap I “Alexis” of 32-calibre.ho
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The Evening Telegram
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 14, 1887
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