LOUISVILLE HOME COMING WEEK
THREE KILLED BY ONE MAN
Clarence Sturgeon Shoots with Deadly Aim.
Every Bullet Fired Finds Human Target.
One Victim unidentified At The Morgue
Self-Defense is Claimed
THE KILLED:
W.Ira Bruner, 2424 Rowan Street, Wilford B. McMichael, 2424 Rowan Street.
Unknown man, forty-five or fifty years of age, six and a half feet tall, weight about 160 pounds, slender face with short red mustache, two upper front teeth broken.
With a long, blued steel Colt revolver tightly gripped in both hands, Clarence Sturgeon yesterday afternoon shot to death W. Ira Bruner, Wilford McMichael and an unknow companion of the two men in front of 431 Eleventh Street, the residence of Daisy Jackson, a woman with whom Sturgeon had become infatuated. Sturgeon emptied his five-chambered piston, and for a moment stood looking at the men whom he had shot. He then turned and deliberately re-entered the house.
The three men ran to the corner of Jefferson Street, where they fell in a heap, Bruner and McMichael dead. The unknown man died shortly after arriving at the Hospital. . He was later identified as James Blackerby.
LOUISVILLE HOME COMING WEEK
THREE KILLED BY ONE MAN
Clarence Sturgeon Shoots with Deadly Aim.
Every Bullet Fired Finds Human Target.
One Victim unidentified At The Morgue
Self-Defense is Claimed
THE KILLED:
W.Ira Bruner, 2424 Rowan Street, Wilford B. McMichael, 2424 Rowan Street.
Unknown man, forty-five or fifty years of age, six and a half feet tall, weight about 160 pounds, slender face with short red mustache, two upper front teeth broken.
With a long, blued steel Colt revolver tightly gripped in both hands, Clarence Sturgeon yesterday afternoon shot to death W. Ira Bruner, Wilford McMichael and an unknow companion of the two men in front of 431 Eleventh Street, the residence of Daisy Jackson, a woman with whom Sturgeon had become infatuated. Sturgeon emptied his five-chambered piston, and for a moment stood looking at the men whom he had shot. He then turned and deliberately re-entered the house.
The three men ran to the corner of Jefferson Street, where they fell in a heap, Bruner and McMichael dead. The unknown man died shortly after arriving at the Hospital. . He was later identified as James Blackerby.
Inscription
A precious one from us has gone.
A voice we loved is silent.
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
Family Members
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Henry Bruner
1873–1939
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Susan M Bruner
1875–1899
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Charles Ernest "Ernest" Bruner
1877–1918
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Mary K. Bruner
1878–1878
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Lulah B. Bruner
1879–1880
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Female Baby Bruner
1885–1885
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Nanie E. Bruner Earheart
1888–1946
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Nellie Catherine Bruner McMichael
1891–1949
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Lilie A Bruner McMichael
1892–1970
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Elmo Bruner
1902–1993
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