| Show WOMAN OMAN HIRED MEN TO MURDER HUSBAND wet west Vo iginia lnla woman has ha her helpmeet shot in order to collect his life insurance Ini urance parkersburg W va on may 3 at it midnight masked men entered the tee homo home of henry blackshire at brook ville colhoun calhoun county and shot him dead la in the presence of 0 his bis wife and son on mrs blackshare Is ia now in the calhoun county jail her neighbor robert mccloskey Is in the same sain 0 prison and louis hendricks la Is 1 in t the h e parkersburg jail all all charged w with 1 t complicity in the murder the arrest of 0 mrs blackshir blackshare e on wednesday was vat brought about by tho the statement of hendricks ho he said ho be was at McClos keys homo home several days before the murder and heard mrs Blacka bire offer mccloskey McClo money to kill her husband and said bald that it 11 he refused to do so she would get someone else to do so ho he says ho he told mrs blackshare after tho murder what ho he heard and she offered to give him as a soon as she collected her husbands insurance if he would leave town he and mccloskey left together the day following tho the murder and remained near parkersburg till mccloskey returned to brookville Broo kville on sunday to get nil his pay and while there be w was p placed la in j jail a ad purling u t their liase rian cedala biere rajni absence C mrs lu rs cli b a attempted t t te d to c collect 0 11 ee it th tho 0 I 1 insurance n su rance amounting to 1000 public sentI sentiment mInt was so outraged over the reports of her complicity that she ehe was threatened with lynching lunching lyn ching but no attempt was made to wreak vengeance on her mccloskey admits being at the house at the time alma of the in murder and also says mrs lira blackshare wanted her husband out of the way but be charges TI endrIcks with tho the murder |
