Word: mellett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canton was quiet. The town's respectable dance place, the "Molly Stark," was ready to close, and out in a genteel residential section, Publisher Donald R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
...bullet, one of many that suddenly spat out from behind the Mellett house, crashed through the kitchen window, narrowly missing Mrs. Mellett's shingled head. Publisher Mellett's children, three girls and a boy, awoke and lay trembling in their beds upstairs. What had happened...
Their mother and the Vails found out as soon as they reached the garage. . . . Evidently an assassin, lurking behind the shelter of a rose bush, loosed deadly fire just as Mellett was shutting the doors. One of the slugs had gone in behind his ear, causing instant death...