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Six Men Injured

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 30. - By premature explosion in Waipole mine last evening six men were injured. Two of them, Captain Benjamin Martin and John Beard, cannot live. The others were badly injured, but physicians cannot yet say whether they will die or not. The accident was very peculiar, as all the men were injured in the back. This is the first serious accident at Waipole mine in several years.

Detroit, Mich., Oct. 30. -  Another deplorable murder has been added to Detroit's annals of crime for 1902, for Horton Warren, proprietor of the Goderich house, died in St. Mary's hospital at 7:45 last evening, the victim of a bullet wound received in a vicious assault in the entrance of his own house on the midnight previous.

The deed was committed by two men who, previous to shooting Warren, had robbed a man into whose room they had broken, and they were fleeing from the house when overtaken by the proprietor and another occupant named Miller. A scuffle ensued and Warren was mortally wounded.

Mrs. Warren, who rented the room to the two men who committed the murder, tells her story as follows: "The two young men who shot my husband came Into the hotel early in the evening and got rooms next to a traveling man from Milwaukee, saying they were friends of his. I heard a racket upstairs and a noise in the traveling man's room. I then ran down stairs and told Mr. Miller to call my husband, who was next door. While they were coming the two robbers came down stairs and started out of the front door. My husband and Miller were just coming in, and I called for them to stop the men. Miller knocked one down and fell with him, and while my husband was trying to help him the other man fired two shots. The robbers then ran away."

A score of detectives scoured the city yesterday in an effort to locate the two thugs, but nothing could be found of their whereabouts.

Marshall, Mich., Oct. 30. - An attempt was made Tuesday night to blow up the residence of George Brownell. a well-known Calhoun county thresher, who resides five and one-half miles east of this city in Marengo township.

The officers were notified yesterday morning and Sheriff Williams, Deputy Sheriff Garfield and Officer Doud went out and made an investigation. They found eight sticks of dynamite bound together and placed in the wall in the foundation of the house. Each stick weighed a half pound, there being enough to blow the house to slivers.

The dynamite was connected with one cap and a long fuse ran from the cap to a burning torch. The fuse had burned and the cap exploded, but the dynamite did not go off, because of poor connection.

The officers have a clue to the guilty party, and Sheriff Williams went to Jackson and Deputy Sheriff Garfield to Albion to make further investigation.