MURDER AND SUICIDE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 6 December 1929, Page 6

MURDER AND SUICIDE

SEATTLE FARMER'S DEED KILLED MOTIIKTMN-LAW AND SELF. NEW YORK, Lee. 13. A Seattle message states that Theodore Holmes, aged 30, a farmer, attempted to kill his wife, aged 23 who a week ago left him. He failed at her mother's home in an attempt at reconciliation 1 o-day. Ho traded his pot dog for a rifle with which to enforce his wife to return. She declined and when Theodore Slopped shooting his mother-in-law laj ; icad) his wife was shot but will recover, and the husband himself uas so badlv wounded that he died. _ . * Los Angeles was the scene of a similar tragedy. A truck-do/ive- conies .1 that he had hilled and decapitn-od tlw. family of live children hecause i.< ■ ■> c ,l their mother, whose savings in. «■ spent, would kill him.