MAN DEFIES ARREST.
SHERIFF'S POSSE AT A LOSS. By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyds'nt ■'Times" —Sydney "Sun 1 ' Special Cables. New York, January 19. Edward Beardslev, a farmer at Marysville. defied arrest for three days on a charge of shooting the local postmaster. He locked himself in his house, his wife and nine children surrounding him as a living shield. The sheriff's posse is campcd round the house. The sheriff confesses that he is helpless. If he storms the house the children will be hit, and if he continues the siege the children will starve.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 7
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93MAN DEFIES ARREST. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 7
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