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Walter Cornelius Baxter
3 Jul 1874 – 5 Jul 1930
| Birth | 3 Jul 1874 |
| Death | 5 Jul 1930 |
| Cemetery | Pleasant Grove City Cemetery Pleasant Grove , Utah County , Utah , USA |
| Added by | Brat on 04 Oct 2023 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77455 |
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(Salt Lake Telegram, July 23, 1930) FIRST DEGREE CHARGE FILED AGAINST KILLER PROVO, July 7 (Special) – A Large crowd of curious people jammed the city court here this afternoon as the preliminary hearing opened for A. Leo Romero, 40, who, Saturday night, shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baxter, his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Romero, was charged with first degree murder in a complaint issued by County Attorney George S. Baliff today, following the fatal shooting at Pleasant Grove Saturday which climaxed a dispute over the custody of Romero's 20-month old daughter, Leora Dean. _______________________________ Mrs. Romero, who has been in the Lehi hospital suffering from injuries believed to have been inflicted by a third bullet from her estranged husband's rifle Saturday, was removed to her home in Pleasant Grove today. Some doubt was expressed by officers today that the woman had been shot, but it was believed she had been struck by a jacket from one of the bullets which struck her parents. Romero maintains he fired but two shots and staunchly denies he aimed the weapon at his wife. Mrs. Romero said she was in the back lot picking strawberries when she heard her husband and father quarreling at about 7:30 p. m. ____________________________________ "Lee was carrying a big club and a wrench," she said. "He dared father to come out and fight." She then told how Romero had walked into their own house, about forty feet from the Baxter place. She thought, she said, he was returning the wrench. Then she told of hearing the shot ring out which felled her mother and another that found its mark in her father's heart. "I don't know which shot struck me," she told the officer. "I don't know whether there were two shots or three." Her husband was an expert shot. Mrs. Romero declared, saying she had seen him twice hit a porcupine in a tree before the animal feel to the ground.
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- David Baxter 1866–1954
- Margaret Currie Baxter Matthews 1867–1944
- John Kelly Baxter 1872–1929
- Agnes Baxter Burns 1876–1957
- Elizabeth May Baxter Smith 1878–1921
- James Angus Baxter 1884–1920
- Hugh Archibald Baxter 1887–1959
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