DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES
MURDERS IN AMERICA
NEW YOKE, sth December.
A Seattle message states that Theodore Holmes, aged 30, a farmer, had a wife, aged 23, who a week ago left him. Ho called at her mother's home in an attempt at a reconciliation. To-day he traded his pet dog for a rifle, with which to enforce his wife to return. She declined. When Theodore stopped shooting, his mother-in-law lay dead, bis wife was shot, but will recover, and the husband himself was so badly wounded that he died.
Los Angeles was the scene of a similar tragedy. A truck driver confessed that he had lulled and decapitated his family of five children becauso he feared their mother, whose savings; he had spent, would kill him. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 11
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172DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 11
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