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Shot In His Tracks

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
June
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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As a gang of young men were going outside the walls of the lonia house of correction tbe otber afternoon to worfe on the pri.-on farin. oneof tlicm. Joseph Desearlo, Btarted to escape while passing tbrough a little grove cast of the Warden 'a resldence. The keeper in charge of the simad called Ui liim to slop, l)iit the Reeing man ran only tin; laster. The keeper gent a llyiiig sliol after liim in the air, a.'iaiii c:illiiig on liim to stop ör he'd kill him. This had ik effect, and a seeond slioi was flred Inearnest. Desearlo falling dead in bis tracks. He was a ('anadian Frenchnian from St. [gnace, and was sent to prison February 21 last for three years tor perjury. He was m years old, ar.d leaves no relatlvee in tliis state.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat