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Lynched At Midnight

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Peru, Ind., July 7. - Yesterday morning Flora, the sixteen-year-old daughter oí John Christianson, was married. This incensed her father, who, af ter the ceremony, beat the girl and nearly choked her to death. Christianson then entered his woodshed and fired his revolver. His wife, thinking he had shot himself, summoned Dr. E. B. North, of the Wabash railway hospital. When the surgeon put in an appearance Christianson rushed upon him and shot him mortal ly. The murderer was taken rom jail by masked men at midnight and lynched.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register