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The Grand Haven News
Wednesday, 7 December 1859

         THE PORT HURON TRAGEDY
         We learn from the Port Huron Press that DR. FREUND,
       who was shot by McGEE on the 19t ult., for improper
       intimacy with his wife, has died of his wounds. It
       appears that DR. FREUND was one of the many religious
       scoundrels existing in all communities. He was an 
       Elder of the Presbyterian Church at Port Huron. -
       McGEE has suspected that an improper intimacy existed
       between his wife and the Dr., and he laid a plan to
       ascertain the fact. For this purpose he had cut a
       small trap door under his bed into the cellar, unknown
       to his wife. On Saturday morning, the 19th, he told
       his wife he was going to Detroit, and took his carpet
       bag and left his house apparently for that object.
       Instead of going on board the steamer, he took a cir-
       cuitous route to a place commanding a good view of
       his own dwelling. He had not waited long before he
       saw his wife come out, lock the door, and go up the
       street. He immediately went to his house and entered
       the cellar, and got into his bed room through the
       trap door. Here he watched till he saw his wife re-
       turning, when he crawled under the bed. She entered
       the house, and in a few minutes DR. FREUND also came
       in. They locked the door and retired to the bed room.
       Here they undressed, and the Dr. sat down on the bed,
       when McGEE - who was armed with a double barreled
       pistol, loaded with two balls in each barrel - fired
       both barrels at once, all four balls entering the
       Dr.'s thighs. McGEE immediately rushed out of the
       house and alarmed the neighbors, and told them what
       he had done. The neighbors immediately went into
       the house, and saw both of the guilty parties in
       the dishabille above related. McGEE surrendered him-
       self to the authorities, and on Wednesday last, after
       an examination before Justice Minnie, he was held to
       bail in the sum of $2,000, to appear at the next term
       of the Circuit Court of St. Clair county to answer
       the charges preferred against him.
       
       (transcriber's note: The 1860 Federal Census Mortality
        Schedule gives his name as Isadore Freund.)
       
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