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EAST SHORE NEWS
PENTWATER, OCEANA Co., MICH.
FRIDAY, May 31, 1872
Vol. II, Number 72


        On the 23d, at Saginaw, JAMES CORNELL shot JAMES TOWERS,
      a lumberman from Au Sable, while seated at a table in the
      National Hotel office, conversing with a man named PALMER.
      It is said that PALMER is the one CORNELL meant to shoot,
      and that PALMER had seduced his sister. In the confusion
      ensuing, CORNELL fired again and hit a Frenchman named
      JOSEPH ERARD, probably unintentially (sic). If he had kept
      on shooting long enough, he might finally have hit PALMER,
      but he was stopped and held till officers came and took
      him in charge. A bullet lodged in each of the men, causing
      bad but not dangerous wounds.
      
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