DREADFUL CRIMES
MURDERS AT LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED VANCOUVER, Thursday. A message from Seattle says Theodore Holmes, aged 30, a farmer, had a wife of 23, who a week ago left him. Every day since then he called at her mother’s home in an attempt at a reconciliation. Today he exchanged his pet collie for a rifle with which to force his wife to return. She declined, and Holmes shot his mother-in-law dead, and wounded his wife, who will, however, recover. The man wounded himself so badly that he died. Los Angeles was the scene of a similar tragedy. A truck driver confessed that he killed a family of five children, because he feared that their mother, whose savings he had spent, would kill him.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 9
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128DREADFUL CRIMES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 9
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