MURDER AND SUICIDE
SEATTLE FARMER’S DEED KILLED MOTHER-IN-LAW AND SELF. Received Dec. 5, 11.25 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. 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 called at her mother’s home in an attempt at reconciliation to-day. He traded his pet dog for a rifle with which to enforce his wife to return. She declined and when Theodore stopped shooting his mother-in-law lay dead, his wife was shot but will recover, and the husband himself was ao badly wounded that he died. Los Angeles was the scene of a similar tragedy. A truck-drive’ confessed that he had killed and decapitated the family of five children because he feared their mother, whose savings he had •pent, would kill him.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 9
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136MURDER AND SUICIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 9
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