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Assault in the Evening Journal, 1900 & 1920

Bailey Seems a Bad Citizen

Item

Title
Bailey Seems a Bad Citizen
Source
The true northerner (Paw Paw, Mich.)
Date
1903-04-10
Identifier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85033781/1903-04-10/ed-1/?sp=7&q=assault&r=-0.041,0.756,0.421,0.161,0
Crime
Assault
Subject
examination, family, weapon
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged offender
Gender of alleged victim
female alleged victim
Stage of the Legal System
arraignment, crime
Location
In state, Nashville, Mich
Length of story
82
Description
Nashville, Mich. April 7. At the
examination of Sanford Bailey, charged
with assault with intent to murder
his former wife and her sister, the
two women testified that he first
threw a stone weighing two pounds
through the window into the room in
which they were sleeping. Then
smashed the whole window. frame, using
a hickory club, five feet long and
two inches in diameter, and with this
club inflicted on them injuries which
nearly proved fatal. He was held
without bail.