Baker-Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Mrs.Shaw Confesses March 17, 1893
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Oregonina March 18,1893 March 17, 1893
She Accuses her Paramour Of The Murder Of Her Husband
Baker City,Or.,-March 17-The latests news regarding the murder of Alfred 
Shaw,near Canyon City,Grant County,was brought last evening by persons 
arriving from the scene.Since the incarceration of the man Gallin,who was in 
the employ of Shaw,and the arrest also of Mrs.Shaw,the latter has made a 
confesion,stating that Gallin,with whom she had been initmate,killed her 
husband with ahammer and then carried the lifeless body to the barn.He then 
dispatched a boy to town to spread the report that Shaw had been kicked to 
death by a horse.Iin the meantime the murderer burned the handle of the hammer 
and threw the head of it in the deep snow,where it was afterwrds 
found.Mrs.Shaw was twice a divorced woman becoming the wife o f Shaw, som 
efour months ago. Her first husband was Al MOsher,convicted in Grant county 
ona criminal charge and sent to the penitentiary.Later she married one 
Haskins,at Baker City,who soon left her.Her reputation then was very bad.She 
is a small,dark complected woman about 40 years of age,bar countenance 
indiciating low instincts.

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