OBIT: Paul FILSINGER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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PAUL FILSINGER

Garrett County, Maryland

William Durst Shoots Step-Son
Wife and Mother Witness Fatal Shooting of Paul Filsinger

  A smouldering two-year quarrel between a man and his step-son led to the death 
Sunday of 33-year-old Paul Filsinger, five miles west of Oakland, Md.  The step-
father, William Durst, 65, of the Dry Run section, near Swanton, was lodged in 
the Garrett County jail, charged with murder.
  The shooting was the climax of an argument between Filsinger and his wife, 
Virginia.  Mrs. Filsinger is said to have been running in the direction of the 
Durst home to escape from her husband, who is alleged to have been intoxicated.
  Mr. Durst warned Filsinger not to come nearer to his house, and when he 
disobeyed the command he shot him with a single-barrel shotgun.  The buckshot 
charge struck Filsinger in the abdomen.
  The wounded man was rushed to the Reeves Clinic in Westernport where he died 
early Monday morning.
  Filsinger was a native of Deer Park, a son of Mrs. Pearl Filsinger Durst and 
the late Otto Filsinger.  His mother was married to Durst several years ago, 
after her husband's death.
  Surviving, besides his mother and wife, are two small children, Paul Edward 
and Robert Martin; two sisters, Mrs. Kathryn McCracken, of Cumberland, and Mrs. 
Marie Nicklow, of Terra Alta, W.Va.; a brother, Edward Filsinger, of Cumberland, 
and a half-brother, William C. Durst, of Swanton.
  The body was removed to the Winterberg Funeral Home at Grantsville.

Meyersdale Republican, July 18, 1940