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Double Tragedy

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
April
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

ivAi,A)iA.uo, -prii . - Anuy (Jamp bell, a farmer, was the chief actor in a doublé tragedy at his farmhouse4 miles south of Bangor, Van Buren eounty, late Fríday afternoon. For many years he had had domestic trouble with his wife, and on his request was granted a divoroe. Mrs. Campbell liad considerable property and the divorce did not end their quarrels. One of her houses was bnrned under snspicious circumstances. Campbell had his life insured for $:í,000 in favor of his 8-year-old son, who was left to his keeping-, and five daughters were left without support. Mrs. Campbell had just hired a man to work her farm, which did not plear,c Camptiell, and he callee! on e and af ter a few hot ords : ,■ .1 two shots at her, one her in the forehead and the second in the neck. He then turned his revolver ag-ainst his own forehead and fired a ball into his own brain. lioth died instantly. A 10-year-old daug-hter witnessed the whole trag-edy and notiflèd (;. II. Börse, who found both dead li fcheirown blood. Mrs. Campbell on the lonnjfe and he on the floor.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News