OBIT: Minnie FRICKLINE, 1904, Boswell, Somerset County, PA

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Girl Murdered
Post Office Clerk at Boswell Shot Dead by Negress

Somerset Pa., Feb. 2.  
  Miss Minnie Frickline, aged 23 years, clerk in the post office at 
Boswell since April 1, was shot and instantly killed while on her way 
to work by a negress, Mrs. Frank Simpson, wife of a Boswell barber.
  Miss Frickline was hurrying rapidly along when the colored woman 
pounced upon her and drawing a revolver from under her shawl fired a 
bullet into the girl's brain.  Mrs. Frickline dropped dead in her 
tracks.
  Mrs. Simpson was placed under arrest immediately and taken before 
Justice of the Peace Ackey who committed her to jail.
  The murdered woman is a daughter of Isaac Frickline who conducts a 
furniture store and undertaker's establishment at Boswell.
  She was bright and intelligent and before accepting a position at the 
post office had charge of the Somerset Telephone company's exchange at 
Boswell.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume XXXVIII, Number 6, Friday, 
February 5, 1904