Husband slashes wife in 121 wounds in Evansville crime
A special dispatch from Evansville Indiana reports Valentine Wissman repeatedly attacked his wife after jealous quarrels with rival Erwin. He grabbed her baby, slashed her throat and body, severed an artery, and left her for dead. He was captured on a fence, naked except for a shirt. The wife and child are expected to die.
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The
Sentinel
Evansville
Indiana
Valentine Wissman
Erwin
Wissman
Los Angeles Worker Crushed. Imperial Rivalries and Odd Notices
A freight brakeman in Los Angeles is mangled when a lumber car protrudes. Immigrant tensions surface as four hundred Japanese laborers are alleged on Livermore Valley ranches and may be deported. A Mexican Indian near Stockton is found harmless after speculation about leprosy. Oscar Wilde denial and prison notes appear, along with bets on the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout in Texas. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised beside tobacco cessation claims. Local classifieds offer eggs, creamery pager, bacon, and butcher ads.
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California
William Brown
San Francisco
Livermore Valley
Stockton
Cal
Mexico
Mescala
Guerrero
Oscar Wilde
London
Wilde
Oscar
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