OBIT: Mollie BECK, 1903, Bairdstown, Westmoreland County, PA

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MURDER AND SUICIDE

Bairdstown, a little village in Westmoreland county, which 
lies immediately across the Conemaugh river from 
Blairsville, was the scene of a double tragedy early on 
Sunday morning which resulted in the loss of two lives. The 
dead are Albert Palmer, aged 33 years and Mollie Beck, aged 
30 years. The case was drink and jealousy. Between 2 and 3 
o'clock the neighborhood where the tragedy occurred was 
aroused by the shrieks and cries of several women. Those 
who appeared upon the scene witnessed an awful sight. In 
the rear room of the house in which the tragedy took place 
lay the bodies of the persons named, the woman with a bullet 
hole through her heart, and the man, shot in the middle of 
the chest. Death was instantaneous in each case. Early on 
Saturday evening Palmer had been seen on the streets of 
Blairsville very much intoxicated. He had been paying 
attention to the young woman for a couple of months, 
although she had a husband living. There were no witnesses 
in the shooting but it is supposed to have resulted from a 
quarrel.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, May 22, 1903