Word: modoc
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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With five bullet holes in his body, dying Correspondent Claude L. McCracken wired the Associated Press and United Press, both of which he served as Alturas correspondent: "Tonight about 6:30 Harry French shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail, with an automatic pistol. Condition of McCracken serious...
Even as McCracken was dying, the parents of the killer, publishers of the weekly Plaindealer & Modoc County Times, issued their newspaper with this lead story: "As we go to press the tragic news is brought to us that our son Harry French has shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail. McCracken is seriously hurt. We ask you, our readers, to pray for us all in this hour of tragedy. Please pray for us that the injured man recovers. We apologize for the uncompleted parts in our paper. Our strength and heart in our work is gone tonight...
...mild-mannered, life-long home-town boy, employed by the State Board of Equalization, married and with one child, had walked into McCracken's kitchen where McCracken, 36, married, was eating supper with two girls, Miss Donna Cornell, 27, who assisted him in publishing his mimeographed Modoc County Daily Mail, and a friend, Miss Evelyn Olin, 27. McCracken's wife, a nurse, was at work at the Alturas General Hospital...