Show WOMAN HIRED MEN TO MURDER HUSBAND wet vi g n a woman has her help meet shot in order to collect H s L fe insurance parkersburg W va on may 3 at midnight masked men entered the home of henry blackshire at brook valle calhoun county and shot him dead in the presence of his wife and son mrs blackshire Is now in tha calhoun county jail neighbor robert mcclose ey Is in the same prison and louis s in the parkersburg jail all charged with complicity in the murder the arrest of mrs blackshire on wednesday was brought about by the statement of hendrecks he said he was at mccloskey s home several days before the murder and heard mrs blackshire offer mccloskey money to kill her husband and said that if he refused to do so she would get some one else to do so he says he told mrs blackshire after the murder what he heard and she offered to give him as soon as she collected her husband s insurance it he would leave town he and mccloskey left together the day following the murder and re bained near parkersburg till me closkey returned to brookville Broo kville on sunday to get his pay and while there he was placed in jail during their absence mrs blackshire attempted to collect the insurance amounting to public sentiment was so outraged over the reports of her complicity that she was threatened with lynching but no attempt was made to wreak vengeance on her mccloskey admits being at the house at the time of the murder and also says mrs blackshire wanted her husband out of the way but he charges with the murder |