LAKH, Hdward R.
Lake, a 32-year-old Louisville, Ky., white man and his wife, Mabel,
had domestic troubles which culminated on July 20; 192), when she
took their children and left him. ‘She went to the restaurant owned
by a friend, Mrs. Mary Murphy Smith with whom she plamed $0 stay un-
til she would make other arrangements. That afternoon, Lake drove to
the restaurant and asked his wife to return wkkk home with him. When
she refused, he drew a pistol and shot Mrs. Smith fourtimes as she
cowered in a corner. Mrs Lake ran screaming from the restaurant and
into a grocery store next door begging the owner to hide her, As
Lake enbered,s she crouched behind a counter, but he saw her and shot
her five times. In the meantime, the grocer, his wife and some cus-~
tomers had fled the s tore. lake then turned his pistol on himself
and shot himself four times in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Tried
first for the murder of his wife, he received a life sentence. When
convicted of the death of Mrs. Smith, he was sentenced to die and he
was electrocuted xhm at the Kentucky State Prison on May 28, 1926.
LOUISVILLE COURLER-JOURNAL, Louisville, Ky., May 28, 1926.
LAKH, Edward R.
Lake, a 32-year-old Louisville, Ky., white man and his wife, Mabel,
had domestic troubles which culminated on July 20, 192), when she
took their children and left him. She went to the restaurant owned
by a friend, Mrs. Mary Murphy Smith with whom she planned so stay un-
til she would make other arrangements. That afternoon, Lake drove to
the restaurant and asked his wife to return wk home with him. When
she refused, he drew a pistol and shot Mrs. Smith fourtimes as she
cowered in a corner. Mrs Lake ran screaming from the restaurant and
into a grocery store next door begging the owner to hide her, As
Lake entered, she crouched behind a counter, but he saw her and shot
her five times. In the meantime, the grocer, his wife and some cus~
tomers had fled the s tore. lake then turned his pistol on himself
and shot himself four times in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Tried
first for the murder of his wife, he received a life sentence. When
convicted of the death of Mrs, Smith, he was sentenced to die and he
was electrocuted xw# at the Kentucky State Prison on May 28, 1926.
LOUISVILLE COURLER-JOURNAL, Louisville, Ky., May 28, 1926.
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