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The Pentwater (Michigan) News
Friday, October 14, 1898


           Blacksmith Shoots His Daughter and
                     Kills Himself.
                     
           GEORGE WATSON, a blacksmith, living at
         Trufant, requested his 18-year-old daughter
         to go with him after milk. Her mother ob-
         jected, and a quarrel ensued. The next day
         WATSON went to work without his breakfast,
         but returned to the house at 10 o'clock, 
         and asked the girl to write a letter to his
         brother in which he said he was going to
         kill himself. There was another quarrel, and
         WATSON pulled a revolver, shot his daughter
         in the left temple. The bullet made a flesh
         wound across her forehead, inflicting no
         serious injury. He then shot himself in the
         right temple, the ball lodging behind the
         left eye, and died in a few hours. At the
         inquest it was decided that he came to his
         death by his own hands. The family say they
         are glad he killed himself.
         
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