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Escanaba Daily Press
August 17, 1949


              White Cloud Shooting Suspect
               Trapped In Newaygo Brush Area
               
              White Cloud, Mich., - Aug. 17 (AP)
              - State police and Newaygo county sheriff's officers
            shot and captured HARRY STEPHENS in a furious gun battle
            today after a 12-hour search. He had been sought as a sus-
            pect in the shooting of a 45-year-old White Cloud woman,
            Mrs. MARTHA ZACHARIAS.
              While Mrs. ZACHARIAS was being treated in a Grand Rapids
            hospital for her injuries, police centered their manhunt
            on a 10-mile square section of the Manistee National
            Forest, where STEPHENS abandoned his car early this morning.
              STEPHENS was trapped about noon in a barn on the farm of
            SAM SCHOTTS, about a mile from his own farm home eight
            miles northwest of White Cloud.
              Sheriff BOB HART of Newaygo county and three or four
            state troopers shot it out with him there.
            
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The Holland Evening Sentinel
August 17, 1949

              Posse Corners, Wounds Farmer
                Near White Cloud
                
              HARRY STEVENS Sought in Revolver
                Shooting of Estranged Friend
                
              White Cloud, Aug. 17. - (UP) -
              HARRY STEVENS, 50-year-old farmer and widower, who shot
            a woman that he had been courting, was wounded while re-
            sisting arrest today and taken to Fremont hospital, 
            Sheriff ROBERT HART reported. He was not critically
            wounded.
              HART said STEVENS was captured after a gun battle at
            the home of a neighbor this afternoon when he resisted
            arrest and fired back at two State policemen.
              STEVENS eluded a posse in the woods near Brohman where
            state police, sheriff's officers and others tracked him
            early this morning.
              Mrs. ROBERT HART, wife of the sheriff, was informed
            that STEVENS went to the home of a neighbor, SAM SCHOTTS
            and state police radio messages brought the posse to the
            scene where the shooting followed.
              Meanwhile, Mrs. MARTHA ZACHARIAS, 43, of White Cloud
            remained in Blodgett hospital at Grand Rapids in a
            critical condition of three revolver wounds inflicted
            by STEVENS last night when she told him "we are
            definately through." 
              According to the sheriff, Mrs. ZACHARIAS and STEVENS
            had been friends but recently she refused to see him
            again and the shooting followed an attempt by him to
            effect a reconcilliation.
            
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The Escanaba Daily Press
September 29, 1949

              Jilted Farmer Gets 20 to 30 Years
                For White Cloud Shooting
                
              White Cloud, Mich., Sept. 29. - (AP) -
              
              HARRY STEVENS, 57-year-old Newaygo county farmer, must
            serve a 20-30 year prison term for the near-fatal wounding
            of a White Cloud woman who spurned him.
              STEVENS was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit Judge EARL
            C. PUGSLEY after pleading guilty to assault with intent
            to kill.
              Mrs. MARTHA ZACHARIAS, 46, is recovering from three
            bullet wounds in the chest. STEVENS admitted he shot
            her Aug. 6 when she sought to discourage his attentions.
              STEVENS was wounded and captured by a police posse 
            after a 12-hour chase.
            
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