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"A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY."
AT MAXWELL IOWA, OCT. 22ND, 1887.
MAYOR J. O. FRENCH DIES FROM HIS WOUND WITHIN AN HOUR, WITHOUT SPEAKING.
T. B. SCHMELTZER'S WOUND NOT SERIOUS, AND SPEEDY RECOVERY LOOKED FOR.
THE PERPETRATOR OF THE CRIME ENDS HIS BLOODY CAREER BY SUICIDE.
Last Saturday evening, about 5 o'clock, Perry Ackers, a plasterer about town, went to the hardware store of Jeff. Miller., and asked him to loan him a revolver to shoot a dog. Mr. Miller, not suspecting anything wrong, gave Ackers a 32 calibre revolver, which he loaded and put in his pocket. He then went out and walked across the street to the office of T. B. Schmeltzer, Justice of the Peace. He found Mr. Schmeltzer sitting by his desk, and said to him:
"Tom, are you ready to take your medicine?"
Mr. Schmeltzer, supposing him to be jesting, paid but little attention to the remark, whereupon Ackers drew his revolver and fired at short range. The ball struck his left lower jaw bone and glancing off, struck the top of the left shoulder, passing through and coming out on top of the left shoulder blade, making a panful, but not fatal wound.
It was considered necessary, by tile citizens of Maxwell, that an inquest be held on the bodies of Mr. French and Perry Ackers, there-