MURDER AND ROBBERY
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Frank Sperlingperson
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a.k.a. Mr. Frank Sperling
unnamed Mexicanperson
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a.k.a. a Mexican
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MURDER AND ROBBERY
On the evening of the 28th ult., Mr. Frank
Sperling, a prominent merchant of Magdalena,
was brutally murdered. He had discharged a
Mexican whom he had caught stealing. When
Mr. Sperling was discovered he was laying out-
side the railing of his desk, with his throat cut
from ear to ear, in fact his head nearly cut
off, the back part of his head crushed in by a
heavy blow ; a knife-cut in the mouth and three
of his teeth laying by his dead body. He had
evidently been caught by the wrist and had a
student’s lamp in his hand, as the flesh on his
wrist was torn off in his evident struggle to get
away. The lamp was broken and water had
been thrown on it to put it out. The store was
robbed and his watch taken. From the store,
tracks were followed to the Mexican’s house,
where boots and clothing covered with blood
were found, The Mexicans were arrested and
are now in the hands of the officers.