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Submitted: 10/9/21 • Approved: 10/9/21 • Last Updated: 10/12/21 • R462019-G462019-S3
Dan
1891-1936
In memory of Father
Mida
1894-1936
In memory of Mother
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Dan
AMARILLO, Tex. Sept. 1 (AP) - With a self-inflected bullet wound in his head, Dan Craig, 44, Panhandle barber, died here today after killing his wife, Mita [sic] Craig, 40, in the presence of their daughter, Lorine [sic], 12.
The double shooting climaxed domestic difficulties in the Craig home near the Carson county courthouse at Panhandle.
At 9 o'clock this morning, Lorine [sic], only one of the five Craig children in the house, heard her parents quarreling in a bedroom. "Are you going to be the kind of wife to me you ought to be?" the girl testified she heard her father say.
Mrs. Craig did not answer - at least, the girl heard no reply as she entered the bedroom to see her father with a .22 caliber rifle levelled [sic] at her mother.
When the shooting started, the terror stricken girl fled from the house.
Four shots were fired. One of the bullets struck Mrs. Craig at the bridge of the nose, a second bore into the left eye and a third ripped into the skull just back of the left ear.
"Any of the bullets would have caused death," declared the examining doctor.
Craig then shot himself between the eyes.
He was rushed to Amarillo, where he died in a hospital three hours later.
Mrs. Craig came to death by gunshot wounds at the hands of her husband," was the coroner's verdict, rendered by Justice of the Peace Fred Reiner.
Lorine [sic] testified at the inquest.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Tuesday, September 1, 1936, Page 1)
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Daniel Jones Craig
County: Las Animas
State: Colorado
Birthplace: Texas,United States of America
Birth Date: 17 Sep 1892
Race: Caucasian (White)
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Daniel Craig
Death Date: 1 Sep 1936
Death County: Potter
Certificate: 46815
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Daniel Craig
Birth Date: abt 1898
Birth Place: Shamrock, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Panhandle, Texas
Spouse: Mrs Mary Craig
Age at Death: 38
Death Date: 1 Sep 1936
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
*Obituary Mida
AMARILLO, Tex. Sept. 1 (AP) - With a self-inflected bullet wound in his head, Dan Craig, 44, Panhandle barber, died here today after killing his wife, Mita [sic] Craig, 40, in the presence of their daughter, Lorine [sic], 12.
The double shooting climaxed domestic difficulties in the Craig home near the Carson county courthouse at Panhandle.
At 9 o'clock this morning, Lorine [sic], only one of the five Craig children in the house, heard her parents quarreling in a bedroom. "Are you going to be the kind of wife to me you ought to be?" the girl testified she heard her father say.
Mrs. Craig did not answer - at least, the girl heard no reply as she entered the bedroom to see her father with a .22 caliber rifle levelled [sic] at her mother.
When the shooting started, the terror stricken girl fled from the house.
Four shots were fired. One of the bullets struck Mrs. Craig at the bridge of the nose, a second bore into the left eye and a third ripped into the skull just back of the left ear.
"Any of the bullets would have caused death," declared the examining doctor.
Craig then shot himself between the eyes.
He was rushed to Amarillo, where he died in a hospital three hours later.
Mrs. Craig came to death by gunshot wounds at the hands of her husband," was the coroner's verdict, rendered by Justice of the Peace Fred Reiner.
Lorine [sic] testified at the inquest.
(Published in Borger Daily Herald, Tuesday, September 1, 1936, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mida Bell Craig
Death Date: 1 Sep 1936
Death County: Carson
Certificate: 44228
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Mida Bell Craig
[Mida Bell Givens]
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1895
Birth Place: Oklahoma
Gender: Female
Race: White
Spouse: Danj Craig
Father: William Arthur Givens
Mother: Johann Holloway
Age at Death: 41
Death Date: 1 Sep 1936
Death Place: Panhandle, Carson, Texas, USA
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