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Mr. Piper person

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)🌐 Q3321450id: p_mr-piper_65406e
Probable 70%
Summary:  A man who leased the McMillen place on the Gila and was involved in a poisoning incident.
Completeness: 92/100 Grade A
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Claims (7)

admitted

tracking Mr. Holloway
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
ces, keeping the stage stand, which they rent from Mr. Piper. It seems that they had been accused by someone of hav- ing poisoned the yeast from which Mr. Piper made his bread. Col. R. S. Allen and Ed Moul- ton took dinner at the Holloway pl…

denied

accusation of defamation
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
ces, keeping the stage stand, which they rent from Mr. Piper. It seems that they had been accused by someone of hav- ing poisoned the yeast from which Mr. Piper made his bread. Col. R. S. Allen and Ed Moul- ton took dinner at the Holloway pl…

lived_at

cited from Keeney, W… (1891) · +1 more
Wood, St. Louis Mo.; J. E. Hoopes, Thos. E. Young, Kansas City, Mo.; H. D. Motter, H. Constable, S. H. Fields, St. Joe, Mo.; W. H. Se- bastan, Simon Juda, Mark Eyekeil, A. Elsasser, H. Gedelson, S. Bloom, San Francisco, Cal. ; Chas. E. M…

owned

cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-02-06 (1891)
h, Tucson, A. T. ; E. M. Turner, Wilmington, O.; E. Wolf, Baltimore, O.; O. G. Williams, Sam Sammuels, Cincinnati, O.; Sam Feitlebaum, Atlanta, Ga.; W. J. Burnes, Matt W. Smith, Chicago, 111. ; W. A. Jones, Mineral Point, Wis.; R. L. Packard,…

sold_to

hog (poisoned bread fed to)
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891)
. Piper was still preparing the meal when Mr. Shelly asked him why he put quinine in his bread. Mr. Piper immediately became alarmed and told him to quit eating it as some- one tried to poison him some two weeks ago, and he was suspicio…

witnessed

poisoning of bread from tainted yeast
cited from Keeney, W… (1891) · +2 more
Wood, St. Louis Mo.; J. E. Hoopes, Thos. E. Young, Kansas City, Mo.; H. D. Motter, H. Constable, S. H. Fields, St. Joe, Mo.; W. H. Se- bastan, Simon Juda, Mark Eyekeil, A. Elsasser, H. Gedelson, S. Bloom, San Francisco, Cal. ; Chas. E. M…
poisoning incident
cited from A Poisoning Case (1891) · +1 more
A Poisoning CaseThe details of a case of attempted poison- ing on the Gila was this week brought to this city by the residents of that section. It seems that Mr. Piper, who has the McMillen place leased, prepared dinner for Peter Shelley and an…

Mentioned by (1)

Mr. Holloway rented_from Mr. Piper

Sources (5)

A Poisoning Case

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

A Poisoning Case

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

Keeney, W…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

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