DOUBLE MURDER BY MISTAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 207, 22 August 1908, Page 4

DOUBLE MURDER BY MISTAKE.

New York, June 30. A pitiful tragedy due to mistaken jealousy took place in Southern Illinois last night, when Julius Turner, one of the wealthiest business men in the district, shot and killed his wife and his sixteen-year-old son, mistaking the latter for his wife's lover. Mrs. Turner was twenty-five yearsyounger than her husband, and a woman of striking beauty. Her husband's groundless jealous}; had eausud several separations, but the couple were always reconciled after Turner had promised not to suspect her again. He had often threatened his wife, whe was not afraid, however, and she ignored his warnings that he would kill her if he ever caught her in the company of another man. La-st night Mrs. Turner attended a church bazaar at Clay City, a village near her home, and her son, who was six feet tall, went thure in order to escort j her home.

Turner, who did not know of this arrangement, awaited his wife in a thick grove near the church. When .Mrs. Turner passed, accompanied by a tall man, Turner sliot her three limes

and the man twice, 'then lie shouted to the people who were leaving Of church, "Come over here, nil of von. and see how I have done justice." The people crowded about the Imdief. but it was too dark to see the faces, s.o Turner dragged the body oi the man face down to the edge, of Hie grovf where th", church lights shone rleaily. saving, '"We will see who he is." Ho turned over the body, and as le recognised his sou, he {rroaned, am then shot himself in the body. Tin wound did not prove fatal, however, and he was disarmed before lie cou'd fire again. . I Turner is now a prisoner in the roiin ] ly gaol, where he refuses all food, say I irig he will starve himself to death by I ■way of punishment for his terrible mis I take. i