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Show LITTLE GIRL SHOT Blf MISSION DEACDN Suicide Follows Attempted Murder; Mother of Child Tells Story of Infatuation. i . 1 . ST. 1.0V1S, nee. . Xiinuio Stnck-liu, Stnck-liu, 12 years oM, wns shot iu tho front yard of her home hero today by Kobert Huiley, a deacon ut a mission, who said ho had been tryinc to reform tho jrirl." Bailey shot himself ttnd was taken to a hospital iu a dying condition. condi-tion. Mrs. t'lara Strieklin. mother of the child, said that Haily, for mote thnu a year, hud nunoyed her in efforts to adopt the child, "saying that he wanted to marry her when she wus grown. Tho child had stayed indoors for several sev-eral days in fear of Bailey, who Sunday Sun-day was driven out of tho house by Mrs. Strickliu. Today the child left the house to order coal. Bailev, who roomed nearby, stepped up ami spoke to the child. A few minutes later the mother saw Bailey raise a revolver and tire. About a yenr njro Bailey rented a room at. the Strickliu home, and soon thereafter his attachment to the child became marked. Mrs. Strieklin, to get away from Bailey, moved to another neighborhood last May, but a few davs later Bailey reuted a room in the house uext door. Mrs. Strieklin then sent thn child to visit her husband, Samuel Strieklin, at Klvins, Mo. Bailey followed tho child to Klvins and told the father if he could not have the daughter, no one else could. ' A few days alio Mrs. Ptricklin complained com-plained to the prosecuting attorney about Bailey. Bailev was ?.Z years old. Ho told the police he had been trying to reform the trirl, had been calling on her and had taken her pood books to read. |