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Show A FOOL AND HIS GUN CAU8E DEATH OF INNOCENT GIRL AND HER BROTHER. Tragedy In Mountains of Alabama the Result of Meeting of Jealous Lovr and His Sweetheart's Brother. Report comes from the mountain district of Winston county, Alabama, of a terrible tragedy aa the result of which Maggie Scharf, aged 18, is dead, her brothor, John Scharf, is seriously, and her lover, William Jones, fatally wounded. The brother has been living liv-ing at. Shelby vlllo, Ind. He returned without knowledge of Jones, whom he had never met. He was in conversation conversa-tion with his Bister, it is claimed, when Jones approached them. Tho sister tauntingly oskod her lover: "How do you llko my now sweetheart?" It Is alleged al-leged Jones Immediately shot tho young woman through tho heart, caus-lng caus-lng instant death, and then he fired at hor brother, ,tho ball pcnotratlng tho j breast. Tho brother mado his relation-I relation-I ship to the young lady known in a cry of fright, and, it is said, Jone3 turnod his rcvolvor against his own breast and fired, the bullet taking otloct near tho heart. |