Young - Virgil - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Crawfordsville, May 25 - The eternal triangle became a quadrangle at a farm home near here today and as a result one man was dead and another wounded in the shoulder. Virgil Young, 21, was killed when shot below the heart by Pearl Grimes, who wounded Charles A. Carter. Grimes charged the two with having broken up his home. He has been separated from his wife, mother of four children.  Grimes readily admitted the shooting. He was armed with two revolvers.  He told authorities he had intended to kill his wife as well as the men.  After attending a show here Grimes walked to his home. Young and Carter were asleep in the same room where Gwendolyn Joan, 2, and a six month old daughter of the Grimes couple lay in her crib. Grimes shot Carter first. Awakened by the shot and pain of his wound, Carter sprang from bed and struck Grimes a heavy blew with his fist. But too late to prevent him from shooting Young, who died within a few minutes with a bullet in his left side. Mrs. Grimes and Carter then grappled with the slayer and succeeded in keeping him captive until Sheriff Thomas Rice, patrolman Northcutt and Dr. AL Loop arrived. Carter and Mrs. Grimes arrested her husband had left the home of his own accord.