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Show SEVEN DIE IN DAY AS RESULT OF VIOLENCE Boys Batter Father to Death for Cruelties Heaped on Their -x Stepmother. St. Louis, July 5. William Dan-necker, Dan-necker, 58 years old, was boatcn to death here today by hla two sons, Thcodoro, 13, and Herman, 23. Tho brothers took turns at hammering their father with a ball bat. Herman, the elder son, said that they klllod their father becauso of his doing continued cruelty to tholr stepmothers. Ho said that his own mother killed herself because of her husband's cruelty; that Dan-necker's Dan-necker's second wife obtained a dl-vorco dl-vorco and that tho third wife, the present Mrs. Dannecker, had attempted at-tempted suicide because of HI treatment. treat-ment. Auto Goes In ltlvcr, Four Lives Are-Lost. Hardin, 111., July D. Mr. and Mrs. George Houghtlln and their 4-year-old son of Jcrseyvllle, 111., and Miss Rena Johnson of Los Angeles were drowned in the Illinois river hero last night when Houghtlln drovo his automobile off a ferry boat. I'ears Draft for Son; Ho Slashes Throat. Pittsburgh, July 5. Leon Block, an attorney of Kansas City and former for-mer national president of the R'nal B'rtth lodge, committed sulcldo to- day on a Pennsylvania railroad train between Rochester, Pa., and this city. Ho cut his throat with a razor. It is said Block had worried considerably consid-erably fearing that his son, now ill in a Kansas City hospital, would bo drafted into tho army. v Shuhcft HU Wrist, Then Leaps to Death. New York, July 5. Richard Adam Tlmmerscheldt, representative of German commercial Interests In China, committed sulcldo hero today by Jumping fro'in his rooms on the tenth floor of a bachelor apartment house. Ho had first slashed his wrist with a razor blado. Tlmmersclieldt took out his naturalization natur-alization papers hero In December, 1914. No motive for tho sulcldo has been ascertained by the police. |
