The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-15
ANOTHER TRAGEDY.
Mrs. George Mcmillan on South Cherry
Street Shot in Her Bed,

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Street Shot in Her Bed.
The supply of murder cases in STARK
county appears to grow no less with the
lapse OF time, and every term of the
| criminal court does not appear to be
| complete unless there appears on the
DOCKET one or more cases of homicide,
ana no sooner does one disappear than
| another Is ready to take its place in the
category. The latest is the brutal MUIR
der, in the dead of night, of married
woman living on South Cherry street,
close to the east branch of the Nimishil-
len creek, which occurred early this
morning. While officer ThOs. Baugh-
man was waiting at the corner of
Charles and Cherry streets for the
roundsman at POS a. m. he heard a sharp
PISTOL SHOT
coming from the neighborhoOd of the
creek, short distance south, followed
by screaming, and soon after a second
shot. He Immediately blew his whistle
for assistance and then started down
until he came to the house of George
Mcmillan, next to the creek, where he
found the man of the house standing
back of neighbOr's, named Robinson,
shouting "fOr Gods sake, I'm shot" At
this time ROUndsman Bechtel arrived
and the two officers proceeded up stairs,
accompanied by James Mcmillan, into a
poverty stricken appearing attic, con-
tanning two beds, and in the one at the
north end the woman, Mrs. Mcmillan,
was found
WELTRRING IN HER BLOOD
Flowing from pistol shot wound in the
region of the left eye, from which the
life current, cOmmingled with brains,
eXuded in a sickening stream. She
breathed about twenty minutes after the
officers arrived, but remained uncOn-
sclous. She is about % years old, and
has been married for twelve years, and
has four children, two of whom Occupied
the other bed in the miserable attic at
the time of the tragedy. Drs. Phillips
and johnson were summoned, but too
late to be of any avail to the victim.
THE HUSBAND,
George Mcmillan, aged 32, was found to
be shot in the right breast Just over the
nipple, but the wound is not serious
and it is the impression of the
officers that he did the wife
shooting in fit of jealousy and
afterwards shot himself. His wife did
not bear good reputation and visits of
outsiders were frequent in her locality,
and the murder probably grew out of
the "waywaTdnesS of women" and the
imprOvident nature of the husband, who
followed no legitimate line of honest
Industry, and as the police state was
simply "a curbstOne ornament"
ARRESTED.
At Z a. m. the husband, George Nc
MILAN and his father James, a crOckerv
peddler from Salineyille, who had been
sleeping in the lower part of the house,
were arrested and taken to the county
Jail, where they await an examination
The husbands shirt was burned over
his wound, showing the close proximity
of pistol, and he accuses a Fan Killian
with doing the shooting, but that re-
mains to be proved. The pistol has not
been found, and it is the impression that
it was thrown out in the low, swampy
ground lying back of the house.
THE HOUSE
is little story and half affair, board
ed up and down and unpainted, stand
ing at the foot of Cherry street, next to
the creek, with two rooms down stairs,
the front one carpeted and rough plas-
tered, and the kitchen unfinished; up
stairs is an attic with bare floor and two
beds, and couple of "shake DOWNS"
that evidenced sleeping accommodations
when the bedsteads were occupied. The
whole place betOken5 the most abject
poverty.
Owing to our going to press this
morning, we are unable to give further
details, except that undertaken Barclay
laid out the corpse at o'clock, and a
cOrOner's inquest will be held at 10.