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Show JOB KILLS' f " : PREACHEPi WsssSMMsasBawsOT Cc:stablc Guardirg: nin Also Slain bj the Frea- zled Crowd. CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo., May 4.-f. M. Malone, a preacher for a sect known ' ss Sanctified People," and Constable W. J "l6eoneyhon were shot and killed by a -C. ' ob Saturday at' Warden, twelve , miles wst of Caruthersville. Malone had been prioselytlng in ' this county for several months and much feeling had been aroused against him. A woman named Mrs. Frill having left l er husband, caused much agitation recently re-cently by living with Malone, who had . left his own wife, Mrs. Alice Malone. The preacher's wife objected vigorously to this arrangement, and Malone declared' her Insane and caused her to be -detained in 'jail pending an inquiry. This action aroused the citizens to a frensy and a warrant was Issued against - Malone and Mrs. Frill, on the charge of unlawfully living together. Constable Mooneyhon Saturday arrested both, and . , because of the lateness of the hour decided not to take them to Caruthersville until morning, but instead took his prisoners to his own home for the night. 6hortly after midnight there was a knock at the front door and Money hoon opened the door. He was shot dead in the ' doorway. A mob streamed into the house and seized Malone. dragging him out into the darkness. Mrs. Frill frantically : begged that no harm be done to him. but she was roughly pushed inside the house and the mob departed. Malone was taken to a wood some distance dis-tance away and shot to death. ' The mob then dispersed. No harm was offered to Mrs. Frill or to Mrs, Mooneyhon. |