Bridegroom Shoots Bride's Father and Brothers, Forces New Wife Into Swamp, Oct. 25, 1924

Find No Trace of Missing Couple. . . Police Continue Search for Frank James and His Bride

By the Associated Press

Norfolk, Va., Oct. 25—While city and county police continued today their search for Frank James and his bride of a few weeks, whom he abducted from the home of her father after he had shot the parent and the girl’s brothers J.P. Mahan and Hugh Mahan, the latter believe that James has killed his wife and himself. The authorities declared they have found no trace of the couple in the swamp where James forced his wife to accompany him. The girl was clad in only a thin house dress when she was dragged into the swamps and the relatives fear that even though she has escaped injury at the hands of her husband that she will suffer from exposure.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 25, 1924

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