The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-12-12
OHIO STATE NEWS
GIVEN IN BRIEF
AN AKRON MAN coNFEssES TO
STRANGLING 23-YEAR.oLD
WIFE TO DEATH.
OHIO WINES RIVAL THOSE OF EUROPE
John coburn and Mrs. Mary Burrows
Charged With Staying Richard
Burrows, Plead Guilty to
Manslaughter.

F., Akron.-Before Prosecuting Attor-
ney Frank ]. Rockwell, Sheriff Fer
guson and Chief of Police H. E.
Eby Of Barberton, Harvey Shon.
over broke down and confessed that
he had strangled to death his pretty
23-year-old wife, Edna Hartgrove
Shonower
There was no trouble until Thanks.
giving morning" says Shonower in his
signed confession. Before we got out
Of bed Thursday morning she told me
she had neglected to get meat for our
Thanksgiving, so first l asked her II
I should get up in time to go to the
meat market, and she said no. l said
'Tuts, will you go to the restaurant
to dinner? She said she didn't want
to go, but, she said, If you want to go
so bad you go, and will eat dinner
here And l said, If it is good food
for you it's good enough for me- And
that was the start Later asked her
to take a walk and she wouldn't. She
said she did not feel good enough, and
so, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
she went up stairs and got ready and
came down and got supper and she
wouldn't eat. So I ate alone.
Finally she said, Let's go to the
Pastime,' and we went to the Pastime
picture show and We got out of the
picture show at o'clock and said,
You wouldn't eat at the restaurant
today, but will you go down to Fish
er's and I'll get a couple of sand
wiches. We sat down after we ate
the sandwiches and neither one was
very laxative and we sat until about
1890 and We went to bed. 1t wasn't
any time until she appeared to be
sound asleep and all these little things
that had been going on came to me
and I couldn't sleep. l wound the
alarm and forgot to set 1t to go to
work, so l didn't hear anything until
the whistle blew at the potteries at
6:25 and it was too late to 60 to work
and said, I guess l won't go to work
till noon,' and she said, 4 don't care
II you never 60, and said, You ought
to feel it was my duty to go to work,
and she said it did not make any diff
ference to her If never went. Later
on heard her come down stairs. /
heard her in the kitchen and after
awhile she came in the room. l said,
Aren't you getting any breakfast? p
and she said, No, and that amt the
worst of it, amt going to. am CO.
ing home One thing brought on an
other, and she said: L won't live
with you; Just won't l said, please
try; you break my heart. You have
been doing it by inches the last two
weeks and she said: It's no use;
we couldn't make a success of mar
ried life if we tried for SO years. she
said. AS told you once before, we
made a. mistake getting married so
young, and am going home right
away and she went to the halltree
and took her scarf and went upstairs
to get her coat.
When / saw she was determined to
go l went up and took her by the
hand and l said, Please just stop and
think again before you go; please
don't go; life will be all gone. have
faults, but l will do everything to
overcome them and make life pleasant
for you. She said, No, it's too late
II took her by the throat and shook
her, and l didn't have her tight. She
could talk. She said, You will be-
sorry for this and l said, MY God,
girl, am sorry already l just lost
all control of myself, and instead OF
being a man and letting her go when
it was time, l just held on until it
was too late"