Allegany County MD Archives News.....Glad LaRUE Murder Trial, 1926
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Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 11 Jan 1926: 
GLAD LARUE'S MURDER TRIAL SET FOR FEB. 1
Youth Charged With Killing Pittsburgh Woman Not Uneasy Over Outcome
SHOW MUCH INTEREST
John M. Henry, Able Pittsburgh Attorney, Formerly of LaVale, to Defend 
Accused-Frostburg, Md., Jan 11. Glad LaRue, aged 24 years, son of 
Richard LaRue, living between the Big and Little Savage Mountain on the 
National Road, west of here, will go on trial Saturday, Feb. 1, at 
Pittsburgh, Pa., for the murder of Mrs. Mollie McGuinnis, East 
Pittsburgh, Friday, Sept. 11.  Attorney John M. Henry, Pittsburgh, a 
former Vale Summit youth, will represent Larue and is expected to arrive 
in Frostburg early this week to go over certain details in connection 
with the case with members of Larue's family.  Larue's case is causing 
much local interest.  Events surrounding the case are gruesome and much 
publicity was given the case at the time.  Mrs. McGuinnis was returning 
home from a shopping trip in Wilkinsburg, Pa., and was near the home of 
a neighbor when it is alleged Larue accosted her. It is alleged, Larue 
had a piece of lead pipe in his hand and pursuing Mrs. McGuinnis up a 
flight of stairs to the apartment of a neighbor, battered the door down 
which was closed in his face and grabbed Mrs. McGuinnis, hitting her 
over the head into unconsciousness.  She died later.  Larue was not 
caught in Pittsburgh, but several days after the crime the Frostburg 
police seized him as he was about to make a getaway from his father's 
home on the National Road.  The accused is known to many Frostburg 
people."


Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 6 June 1926: 
LARUE FOUND GUILTY
Frostburg Man Is Convicted of Killing Woman
Pittsburgh Jury Returns First Degree Verdict After Deliberating More 
Than 70 Hours
LIFE IMPRISONMENT IS RECOMMENDED
LaRue Was Arrested In Frostburg Few Days After Beating Victim To Death
Pittsburgh, Pa., March 6--Glad LaRue, of Frostburg, Md., was found 
guilty of first degree murder today for the slaying near here on 
September 11 of Mrs. Mollie McGinnis. Mrs. McGinnis ws found beaten to 
death near her home.  The jury deliberated 70 hours and recommended life 
inprisonment.  LaRue was arrested in Frostburg a few days after the 
slaying and was charged with accosting the woman on a road near her home 
and beating her when she attempted to escape.  Mrs. McGinnis was 
returning to her home me from a shopping trip in Wilkinsburg.  She was 
nearing the home of Mrs. Howard Moore, a neighbor, with whom she left her 
children, Howard, aged four, and Edward, aged six, when a man accosted 
her.  observing a piece of lead pipe in his hand, Mrs. McGinnis ran into 
the Moore house and bolted the door.     PURSUED HER INTO HOUSE  The man 
pursued her and when admittance was refused, battered down the door and 
chased Mrs. McGinnis out of the house.  He seized her at the head of a 
stairway leading from the yard of the Moore home and beat her on the 
head with the pipe.  She struggled until she lost consciousness.  Her 
husband, Howard McGinnis, was asleep in his home about 300 feet away.  
LaRue had been in jail at Pittsburgh on a concealed weapon charge and 
was paroled in July.  FORMERLY LIVED IN LIBERTY  LaRue formerly boarded 
at the home of Mrs. R. E. Jenkins, mother of Mrs. Moore, at 128 Lambert 
street, East Liberty, Pa.  Police learned that Mrs. McGinnis had refused 
to rent LaRue a room in her home shortly before the killing.  LaRue, 
according to the authorities, had threatened to "get someone" after Mrs. 
mcGinnis and Mrs. Jenkins had refused board."



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