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August 21, 1913 vol. XII no. 36
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Suicide at Randolph
RANDOLPH
TIMES:
The dead body
of Jay Frederick, aged 19, and son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Frederick,
was found dead at 6 o'clock Thursday
morning by Wm. Duisen and
others who were driving to
McLean. The body was lying 20 feet
north of the road just beyond the
point where the road at the end of
West Randolph crosses the
Burlington track.
The boy was lying
on his back, by his side an old shot
gun, a little distance away his
bicycle and cap. The gun was
lying with muzzle toward his head,
the shoe was removed from his
right foot and from the position
of the body and gun the men who
viewed the scene concluded that in
a moment of despondency had
assumed a sitting posture, held the
gun muzzle close to his face and
with his toe tripped the trigger,
falling beck lifeless. The full
charge entered the head at the
upper lip.
The face was disfigured and
swollen so the finders of the boy
did not know who it was, until
some boys came who knew the
wheel and recognized the clothing
as that of Jay Frederick, and the
parents were notified.
Pierce county officials were
notified and arrived in a few hours.
After hearing the evidence and
examining the body it was decided
unnecessary to hold a formal
inquest.
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September 4, 1913 vol. 11 no. 38
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RANDOLPH
TIMES:
Robert Smith
of Omaha last Saturday morning
fatally shot his wife and then
suicided by cutting his throat with
a razor.
The wife was a Carroll
girl and was known in our sister
town as Maude Yaryan. She is 27
years old and has a daughter
2 years old by a former husband.
Her mother is Mrs. George Yaryan
of Carroll.
Smith was very abusive
to his wife and had often threatened
to kill her. So unbearable had
been his fits of rage that the landlady
where they roomed ordered
Smith to leave. 21 days previous
to the act of the crazed husband
the wife left and refused to return
this infuriated Smith who repeatedly
sought for an interview to
talk ti over. He then came to
where she was staying and after a
few words shot the woman twice
then took his own life.
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September 18, 1913
vol. 11 no. 40
page "3" col 2
CROFTON
JOURNAL:
A man by the
name of Biles was badly used up
at Constance Sunday morning
during what is reported as a row
over wages.
It seems that Biles had been
employed for some time as a farm
hand by John John, a well known
Assyrian store keeper at Conaiance,
and when he asked for his wages
and stated his intention of quiting.
John informed him that he was
lazy, words followed in which Biles
insinuated that John was a direct
decendent of the canine family, and
as Biles tells it, John didn't attempt
to bite him, as one would naturally
suppose he would, seized him by
his throat with one "paw" and
grasped a heavy iron rod used for
stirring the fire in the other and
proceeded to whale him over the
head with it. One ear was cut
entirely through, a hole jabbed in
the face near the nose, six cuts in
his scalp, some of them four inches
long and several marks on the
throat that looked suspiciously
like finger marks were silent
reminders that Mr. John was not
favorably impressed with his
employee's opinion of him.
This
all occured about 6 o'clock Sunday
morning and Bliss was left alone
in the house until about three
o'clock when a Hartington
physcian was called who dressed his
wounds The local physicians
were also there and the man will
in all probability recover.
John John tells an entirely
different story, his version of the affair
being that his man came home
drunk and fell against a wagon
and several other things and that
he helped him into the house where
he did some more falling which is
responsible for his badly battered
head. No arrests have been made.
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October 23, 1913 vol. 11 no. 45
page "3" col 3
CEDAR
COUNTY
NEWS:
Charles
Wilson, living west of town, had a
narrow escape from death one day
last week while threshing. He
was pitching grain to the separator
across a belt. In some manner
the fork struck the belt and
was hurled with tremendous force
striking Wilson, tines foremost in
the back. The tines were driven
into his back clear up to the handle.
the fork was withdrawn and
Dr. Dorsey was sent for. He found
that one tine had just missed Wilson's
heart, but that the wound
was not necessarily dangerous.
A lung had been pierced, but that
was not necessarily serious. The
patient is still weak from the
wound and shock, but is recovering
rapidly.
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January 1, 1914 vol. 12 no. 3
page "1" col 5
Commits Suicide
RANDOLPH
TIMES:
Wednesday evening the dead body
of John Bauman was found in
the road west of McLean near
the farm of ?? Marsh. A
man named Hewitt made the
gruesome find. The dead man's
team was tied to the fence,
but the body was in the road.
By the side of the body was a
razor, with which it was evident,
the unfortunate man had
ended his life as his throat
was cut deeply, partly severing
the neck.
The Pierce county authorities
held an inquest at McLean
Thursday at 9 o'clock, the
verdict being death by suicide
and no cause for the act was
brought out at the hearing.
Mr. Burman was a man that
would be the last to take his
own life is the opinion of his
neighbors and friends. He
came here from Iowa 4 or 5
years ago, buying the farm
a mile east and four north
where he lived. Last summer
he bought a farm near
Osmond at $75 an acre, and
some seem to think that he
worried over this last deal.
He was about 25 years old
and leaves a wife but no
children.
On the day of his death Mr.
Burman started from home
for Randolph on business,
but he did not stop here.
Barney Leiting saw him pass
his place about noon going
west. As his body was found
on the Osmond road it is
evident he had started for that
place. His wife was worried
over his long absence and
walked to town to find him.
The news of his death was a
terrible shock to her.
The funeral will probably be
held Friday.
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