Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Crime of a Lover In Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Crime of a Lover In Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. 29.—Edward Peters, aged 19, and Flora Lar big, aged 17, were found dead Friday forenoon in the basement »f 350 West Fourteenth street, where Peters had lived. Both were shot through the head, and had been dead since Thursday evening. Peters . had been despondent because he was out of work and because Miss Larbig, who lived with her parents at 128 Brown street, would not marry him.