DREADFUL MURDERS
HUSBANDS SLAY RELATIVES. United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, Dec. 5. A Seattle message states that Theodore Holmes, aged 30, a farmer, had a wife aged 23 years, who a week ago left him. He later called at her mother’s home in an attempt at a reconciliation. To-day lie traded bis pet dog for a rifle, with which he tried to force his wife to return hut she declined. When Theodore stopped shooting, his mother-in-law lay dead, and his wile was shot, but will recover; while the husband was so badly wounded that he died. Los Angeles was the scene of a similar tragedy. A truck driver there coiifos-md that ho had killed and decapitated his family of five children, because lie feared that their mother, whose savings he had spent, would kill him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 3
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