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The Pentwater News
Friday, August 1, 1873

              
              It becomes our unpleasant duty to chronicle another
            bloody tragedy in Manistee county, which will no doubt
            result in the death of one man and the incarceration
            in the State's Prison of another.
              The facts as we learn them are about as follows:
              Some months since, ARTHUR HOUGHTON, Supervisor of
            Filer Town, in consequence of family difficulty, left
            his family, declaring that he would not live with his
            wife. He returned, however, after an absence of a few
            weeks, but family affairs do not seem to have assumed
            a more favorable aspect. HOUGHTON charged on HENRY
            COOPER as being the cause of his difficulty, and
            threatened to shoot COOPER. COOPER was about to put
            HOUGHTON under bonds to keep the peace, but upon the
            latter's promise of good behavior, he was not prose-
            cuted; and for a few days all seemed quiet. On Monday
            afternoon HOUGHTON borrowed a double barrell shot-gun
            from JAS. O'CONNEL, saying that he wanted to shoot
            blackbirds. On Tuesday morning he went to the house
            of WILLIAM WARD, quite early, and as he went into the
            house set the gun by the door, and enquired for MR.
            WARD, saying that he wanted to treat him.
              After a short time he went up stairs taking the
            gun with him, and opened the door where COOPER lay
            asleep. He called COOPER twice, but receiving no
            reply, said: "Well, I guess I can wake you," and
            pointed the gun within six inches of COOPER'S breast,
            and fired the contents into COOPER'S side, and im-
            mediately fired the other shot through the window.
            MR. WARD and wife ran up stairs and picked COOPER
            from the floor and put him on the bed. HOUGHTON
            said, "That's business, that's the way to do it."
            WARD sent for the Sheriff and DR. MEAD, and in the
            meantime they had breakfast, HOUGHTON eating with
            the family. DR. MEAD examined the wound in COOPER'S
            side, and found that the charge had taken effect in
            the left lung near the heart, cutting a large hole
            in the lung, from the effects of which the Doctor
            thought he could not recover. HOUGHTON was arrested,
            and is in jail awaiting the result of the effects
            of the shot. -- Hoffman's Times.
            
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