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IT'S THE SORT OF THING THAT WINDS UP AS A LEGEND.
An atmosphere of tragedy hangs over the quaint old estate near NE 63 and Eastern. In less than a year, death has struckthere three times.
Perhaps it's all over.
Mrs. Margaret Pearson, the last of the clan, died over the weekend. And now thereisno oneleft.
On June 1, 1963, the first life was claimed.
Martin Carriker, 74-year-old automobile dealer, was murdered. Someone fired a bullet from a .22 rifle into the base of hisskull.
• Carriker lived on the estate with his former wife, 72-year-old Clara Carriker, and his step-daughter, Mrs. Pearson.
Investigating officers Pearson and charged that arrested Mrs. she and two Negro handymen engaged in a conspiracy to murder theelderly man.
Then tragedy struckagain.
Before Mrs. Pearson went on trial Mrs. Carriker died.
Shouting, sometimes almost hysterically, that she was innocent of murder, Mrs. Pearson went through a preliminary hearing and a trial for murder.
A juryfound herinnocent.
Her health and spirit broken, Mrs. Pearsonwenthometomore trouble.
A foreclosure property and earlier ata sheriff's sale.
• actlOn cost this year it her the was sold
On February 14, the sale would have become final and Mrs. Pearson would have had to leave the tragedy-ridden man• ston.
Saturday night, she begancoughing and spitting upblood.
A man who was living in the old house heard water running and went to • • Invesngate.
Mrs.Pearsonwas dead.
The murder was never solved. Police have all but dropped the case since a jury disagreed with their appraisal of the evidence.
The old housewasemptyMonday. Only the legendliveson.