Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-04-08 | Page 10 | Colored Man Held for Shooting Wife

I COLORED MAN HELD I FOR SHOOTING WIFE Br Aurora, 111., April 7. John Haegel, colored, 32 years, is changed by the B police with shooting and killing his B wife after learning that she had gone B. , to the polls and cast her first ballot Hr'. in bis absence. Haegel says that he ; slapped Mrs. Haegel and that she was H. '.i so humiliated she shot herself. The Kjfrvl fatal wound, however, was in the i&i'M back of the brain. Hff Haegel told the police that both he Wftv ' nnd his wife had intended to vote raHf1 against the saloon but that he had r jjlfl ; exacted a promise from her to go to lljiflf the P8 wIt nlm- Hc was indignant, BMHjj j he said, when she had not kept hor HHf Clifford Adams, colored, who was fHJ ' in the Haegel home, says that Mrs. IHf Haegel shot herself. He says the ImBK 1 story the husband tells Is true. He I 'JUB s only wItneBE-I wItneBE-I Tne newB of tne election shooting Ittl added to intense excitement already ' existing here. Charges by the wets that the drys were challenging every DjaB of of their women voters to get them IgM so confused they would not know 1 3w now' Tote brought a number of f clashes at the polls. 'Early today a dry worker, John B rMrr Aureuheimer. was set upon and beat- H j& en" Several other dry workers were