Roy A. Beilharz, youngest son of Frank E. and Emma C. Beilharz, was. born April 12, 1884, and died at. Liberty Center, Ohio, December 22, 1934, aged 50 years, 8 months and 10 days.

He was educated in the Liberty Center schools and spent most of his life in Liberty Center and vicinity and was engaged in the dry goods business in this village for a number of years. Deceased was married to Blanche Bergstresser in 1905 and four children were born of this union, Ralph, Lowell, Deloris and Dresden, all now living in Detroit, Mich.

He leaves behind his mother, two brothers and the four children mentioned.

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Jealous Man Kills Two; Turns Weapon On Self

Saturday morning at about 8:00 o’clock neighbors in the vicinity of the Mrs. Hampton farm home, five miles north and one mile east of Liberty Center, heard shots at the Hampton house and a few minutes later a daughter of Mrs. Hampton arrived and said there was trouble there. The sheriff was called and upon his arrival he entered the house to find in a room the bodies of two men and in the rear between the house and garage the body of a woman. The woman was Mrs. Hampton, owner of the farm, a man by the name of Shadd, who worked for her and did farm work, and Roy A. Beilharz, of Liberty Center.

Mrs. Hampton was the mother of two children, a daughter, a sophomore in Liberty Center high school and a younger son, Charles. The daughter left the house when the trouble started and seems to have had no clear recollection of what it was about. The boy, Charles, witnessed the shooting but was so frightened that he could only remember that Shadd first shot Beilharz. Mrs. Hampton had started to run for the garage but Shadd shot her from the doorway. He then inserted another shell in the shotgun, said “Good Bye Charles” and turned the weapon upon himself. Mrs. Hampton bought the farm a year or more ago and it is said that soon afterward Shadd, a Kentuckian, came to work for her. It is said that upon his arrival he had in his possession two shotguns, but for some reason he had been relieved of these. The gun with which he did the shooting was a borrowed one, he having said that he wanted to go hunting. He was not known to have gone hunting and the three shells with which he did the killing were the only ones he had, as no others were found in the house or on his person. It is concluded from this that the killing was premeditated.

In the room where the bodies of the men lay there was a card table with cards scattered over the floor, but, aside from the scattered cards there was no evidence of any struggle nor was there evidence of any drinking having been done. The body of Beilharz was near a chair at one eide of the room, he had evidently been sitting on or standing beside this chair [cut off]. The body of Shadd was near the center of the room, near the card table. The body of the woman lay in the snow in the back yard.

It is said that Friday morning Mrs. Hampton brought her daughter to school and then went to a gas station and lunch stand on Route 110, south of Liberty, where she cooked during the day. Friday evening, it is said, Beilharz brought her from the gas station to town where she did some trading and she bought some gas. It is supposed that from town they went to her home and it is supposed that Beilharz remained there from their arrival until the killing.

After the coroner had viewed the bodies the remains of Mrs. Hampton and Beilharz were turned over to J. E. Segrist, who brought them to his undertaking establishment in Liberty Center. The body of Shadd was turned over to a Delta undertaker.