Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1909 — SEVEN DIE BY BULLETS [ARTICLE]

SEVEN DIE BY BULLETS

Girl Killed For Slapping Robber—Jealousy Causes Triple Tragedy. Baltimore, March 9. —Jennie Reed, twenty-one years old, was slain while out with Joseph Mueller, to whom she was en aied to Le married. He is a prisoner. He says they were stopped by a man who, leveling a pistol, demanded a necklace worn by the girl. Her reply was a slap in the face, upon receiving which the man fired, killing the young woman. Last December, Mueller was warned to cease his attentions to Miss Reed. Afterward there came to him by mall a box of candles, the contents of which w ere found to have contained poison.