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Show PLANNED BRUTAL MURDER Of UNSUSPECTING HUSBAND Led Condemned Man Into Trap and Then Fired Two Shots Into His Body After He Had Been Stricken Down. Tacoma, Wash. The victim of an alleged conspiracy entered into between be-tween his wife and Charles F. New-comb, New-comb, a laundry wagon driver, Martin Mar-tin Kvalshaug, 111 years old, was shot down in cold blood about midnight Saturday, just after alighting from a street car. That the killing was the result of a carefully arranged plot, was evident by an alleged confession, of both Newcomb and Mrs. Kvals-haug. Kvals-haug. In his statement to the police, Newcomb said that he had stationed himself at a point where he knew that Mr. and Mrs. Kvalsiiaug would pass on their way home from a dance. He held a large-sized rock in his hand and when the couple were opposite hbm, reached out from his concealment conceal-ment and struck down his victim j While Kvalshaug was writhing on the ground Newcomb commanded the woman to go away, he says, and he then pumped uhree shots into the prostrate man's body. Mrs. Kvalshaug then picked up the revolver and fired two shots into her husband's body. Newcomb blames Mrs. Kvalshaug for the killing, stating that the plot originated orig-inated in her brain. He said that the Imurdered man's wife even led her husband to the side of the road, where the assailant was hidden, in order or-der to make the attack more simple. |