A MADMAN’S CRIME
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NEW YORK, January 19. Edward Beardsley, a farmer at Marysville, has defied arrest for three days on a charge of scooting the local postmaster. He locked himself in his house, his wife and nine children surrounding him as a. living shield. A sheriffs posse is camped round the house, but the sheriff has confessed himself helpless. “If I storm the building the children will be hit; if I continue the siege the children will starve.”
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Evening Star, Issue 15395, 20 January 1914, Page 6
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83A MADMAN’S CRIME Evening Star, Issue 15395, 20 January 1914, Page 6
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