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Show THREE DAYS A HUSBAND. A Honeymoon Terminated by the Bridegroom's Bride-groom's Murder. "Hello, Tom. Have you any more lies to Barry in regard to me?" This was the salutation with which Edward Ed-ward Steers greeted Thomas Adams when tbe latter entered Aleck Sanders' grocery . store at Staffordsbnrg, Ky., tbe other evening. even-ing. "Yes," Adams replied, "I have just got one mora," and as he said this he drew a revolver and fired. The ball entered Steers' right side, near the navel. The wounded . man staggered to the front of the store, where he fell. He was taken to his residence in a wacon. and died the next morn- thomas adams. ing. Adams surrendered himself to tho authorities, and was jailed at Covington. Steers bad been married only three days. His wife's name was Helen Riggs. Hei mother was stepmother to the nnsanrin. who objected to the wedding because tbe girl owned a lot of land which she intended intend-ed conveying to her husband, thus taking Entirely out of the control of the family into which her mother had married. The murderer is quite wealthy, and by occupation occupa-tion a farmer and stock raiser. |