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Show Tragedies Over a Missouri ITlarrlage Kansas Crrx, December 27. Christmas night at Little Blue, Mo., Frank Vaughan was married to Eliza Swope. Immediately after the ceremony while Vaughan and his wife were standing at the window, they were fired at from the outside, the ball grazing Vaughan's head. It was thought the shot was fired by Abraham Nave, a oousin of the bride, who had threatened that if she did not marry him he would shoot the man she should marry. Last night Nave visited Vaughan's at Argentine, Kansas, and said the reports of the Christmas affair worried his mother and asked that Vaughan and his wife accompany him to his home and deny that they suspected him. This morning morn-ing they started on horseback. When half the journey Was completed Nave rode up in a buggy and shot Vaughan dead, then rode home, and upon the approach of the officers killed himself by shooting. |