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100 Years Ago: Crow, Not Man, Shot at the City Farm
Six days a weeks (Mon—Sat) Marlborough Patch will highlight an interesting story from the Marlborough Daily Enterprise published on that date 100 years ago.
As June 25 fell on a Sunday in 1911, and the Marlboro Daily Enterprise did not publish on Sundays, we are running a headline from the issue of June 26.
June 26, 1911: Crow, Not Man, Shot at the City Farm
A man shot at the city farm, was the thrilling news sent to the police station this Monday morning. The machinery of the department was put in operation, but it was found to be a case of shooting crows.
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Warden B.W. Wheeler was in the woods of the farm and shot at one of the corn lovers. Somebody saw him there and connecting the firing of the shot and the man in the woods decided that some one had been shot.
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Compiled from the archives at the Marlborough Public Library.
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