09/17/1921: Will Munroe, his wife and 18 year old daughter
were murdered with a nail studded club, and the youngest daughter “probably
fatally injured.” News accounts
suggested “insanity, or a mind nerved to the act by drugs or drink.”
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: nail studded club[1]
[1] “Hold
Munroe Suspect,” South Bend [Ind.] News-Times, Sep. 22, 1921, 1; “Neighbor
Questioned on Dowagiac Murders,” Bemidhi [Minn.]
Daily Pioneer, Sep. 22, 1921, 1..
What else are you going to do with that old baseball bat?
ReplyDeleteBesides, they're all still effective. Mace. Maul. Morning Star. Hell you can buy battle axes, and war hammers online. Spears and Glaives and other pole arms too.
And the Atlatl if you want to project primitive power at a distance.