The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-08
TWO SUSPECTS
IN PAINESDALE
MURDER CASE
Four Others, One a Woman, Held
in Custody by Sheriff as
Witnesses
THIRD VICTIM DIES OF WOUND
Three Men, Two Killed Instantly,
and Girl Shot While Asleep
in Their Beds
THIRD VICTIM DIES OF WOUND
PROTEST IS MADE TO ENGLAND

Three men-Artmur and Harry Jane.
brothers. and Thomas Dally-twere as
sassnated at Painesdaic at OclOci;
yesterday morning. The Jane broth
ers were almost instantly killed Daily
died last night from his wounds. The
men were shot as they were asleep ia
their beds in a boarding house y
young girl was shot through the shoul-
der at the same time; il is feared she,
also. will die,
The three dead men were employees
Of the Copper Range Consolidated
company. They were
ARTHUR JANE aged twentv-one;
arrived Saturday from Toronto.
HARRY JANE, aged twenty-four,
brother OF Arthur; also arrived from
Toronto Saturday.
THOMAS DAILY. aged forty; min
er and proprietor of the boarding.
house,
Two suspects ana four witnesses
are held In connection with the mur-
der Evidence is being gathered and
officers express the belief that the men
are connected with tho deed. one oi
the witnesses, a girl. Is said 10 be- q
former ,mploye If the Daily house
hold and To have left her position
week ago on advice that her life woulr-
be i'm danger.
The murdered and wounded were
occupants Of a double boarding house
~ the west end of Baltic street, one
side of which was rented TO Eldred
Nicholson and family and the other
To the family of Thomas Daily
Al were asleep when the shooting
occurred, save Mrs. Daily who was
waiting for "A boarder expected at IL
o'clock but who had not arrived ~
the time Of the shooting. \ bullet
whi2aed passed her as she sat reading
at a table and she screamed an alarm
10 the other occupants of the house.
The shot was followed ny a iusillade,
one bullet entering the head Of Daily,
who had arisen from bed when his
wife screamed Arthur and Harry
Jane were shot dead in their beds.
Mary Nicholson daughter of Eldred
Nicholson, was shot in the shoulder.
The Jane brothers occupied a room IN
the third story.
An alarm was quickly spread ana at
tracted Il score Of deputy sherifis 10
the scene, hut when they arrived there
were no signs of tn" murdcrCrs. The
woods near the boarding house were
searched in vain. \ force Of deputies
ana detectives was rushed to Paines.
dale from Houghton at o'clock.
| Three kinds of rifle bullets were founG
| i'm the boarding house indicating that
al least three men hal fred the shots.
Wife Finds Husband Dying.
The assassination came as the eli
max to n long string of lesser crimes
pcrpetratcd in an attempt Co check the
| Copper Range Consolidated company's
rapid progress toward restoration
of the normal rate of production.
These crimes have ranged from shoot
! ing into workmans homes Ia assault
| ing employees on their way 90 work.
As before related al! the occupants
Of the house were wrapped IN slum-
her when the shooting took place, eN-
cent Mrs. Daily. who about ~ o'clock
| had returned from concert at
church and had decided To prepare
| tea for the boarder whom she expected
tn arrive shortly. the night being cold
and stormy. Mrs. Daily become in
! terested In book and as she sat
reading az the kitchen table bullet
whiZzed past her She screamed and
rushed To the front bedroom, where
her husband was sleeping.
| The bullets had continued To bore
| into the house. The wife found her
husband diving. shot through the head
cant YOU do something for me-"
| Daily asked Of his wife AS he lapsod
, into Inconsistencies
The aponized wife stood ny her hus.
bands side until he passed away ~
r o'clock last evening. hoping and
lpraying that he might speak to her
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