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📅 1891newspaper📜 public-domainid: s_silver-city-enterprise-1891-06-19-007-ap_16brbzn📄 TEI

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James Hilerperson

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a.k.a. Hiler, Mr. Hiler

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chunk 796 · paragraph 829

playing  in  the  same  and 
adjoining  room,  with  the  door  open  between 
the  two.  The  second  boy,  aged  five,  was  so 
completely  overcome  with  emotion  as  to  be  un- 
able to  answer  intelligently  at  all,  and  his  plain- 
tive sobbing  found  an  echo  in  various  places  in 
the  court  room.

Mr.  Hiler  was  then  put  on  the  stand.  His 
general  appearance  and  style  of  answering  was 
decidedly  against  him.  He  said  that  from  what 
his  children  told  him,  and  from  one  other  source 
he  believed  the  doctor  was  interfering  with  his 
family  affairs;  that  he  had  asked  the  doctor  if 
he  intended  to  marry  Mrs.  Hiler,  and  being 
answered  in  the  negative,  concluded  that  he 
desired  to  ruin  her.  On  the  evening  of  the  kill- 
ing he  met  the  doctor  in  front  of  the  hotel,  and 
after  a few  words  the  doctor  sprang  towards 
him,  when  he  pulled  his  pistol  and  fired.  The 
doctor  fell,  and  he  shot  him  again.  He  admitted 
that  there  was  an  agreement  that  Mrs.  Hiler 
should  have  a divorce,  and  stated  that  he  urged

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