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Source: Marietta Daily Leader Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Played” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Marietta, Ohio Date of publication: 20 September 1901 Volume number: 7 Issue number: 223 Pagination: [5] |
| Citation |
| “Played.” Marietta Daily Leader 20 Sept. 1901 v7n223: p. [5]. |
| Transcription |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (related tragedies); McKinley assassination (reenactments). |
| Named persons |
| William McKinley; Emil Miller; Omer Peele [misspelled below]. |
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Played
McKinley at Buffalo and He Will Die.
By Associated Press.
Muncie, Ind., Sept. 20.—Omer Peelee, aged 10,
was fatally shot at Winchester this evening while posing as McKinley at Buffalo,
for Emil Miller, a boy of the same age, who was acting the part of the assassin.
The weapon used was a flobert rifle and the ball passed almost through the Peelee
child’s stomach. He will die.