FIVE PERSON'S MURDERED.
JI AD HUSBAND’S ACT. FINALLY COMMITS SUICIDE. * By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright New York, Dec. 2r2. A telegram from Cooper’s Milte, Maine, says that, driven to desperation and madness by a separation from his wife, John Snow, a Polish lumberman, aged 25, killed five persons and himself. Mrs. Snow wa<s living- with her 80-year-old mother, as the result of a quarrel with her husband. She was entertaining friends, including a neighbour’s wife and the latter’s son and Mrs. Snow’s sister- Snow, who worked in the woods nearby, told a friend earlier in the day that he missed hi® wife very much and wept. Snow apparently proceeded to his mother-in-laiw’s house and came upon the group of women. An altercation occurred and Snow procured a revolver and shot the four women, the 'boy and himself. A passer-by discovered the tragedy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1923, Page 7
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