| Show A MURDERED 1 I 1 father blows out the brains of or a newly married daughter BIS owa off UE LIVE I 1 tie sigal ii toa to bach lath fr for the young balad and ai 16 Is bow a kailinz maniac STANDARD special a SJ P CAr Service 1 I 1 LACON LACOX III sept 28 in a little cottage in this city lio lie the dead bodies of a lather father and a daughter the latter a bride of a lev few hours last list hay may charles seifert and family came to this city the father and daughter were employed as weavers in the lapon woolen mills A young englishman named joseph baxter was also employed in the mills and courted the daughter mary against the fathers lathers consent the young man naver never called at t the he h house 0 us e but in managed a n aged to see the girl elsewhere and the young people finally became engaged last wednesday evening seifert mat met ha the young couple out walk ing ng abused baxter and threatened to 0 o kill both and shoot himself ba baxter ter boarded two doors from ert t and saturday night be he and mary were married there by a justice of the peace JS eifert when be he beard heard of this went to the house and asked to a lea e fhe marriage certificate this boing shown him he seemed satisfied and told the young wife to come to his house and get her trunk which she did in company with barter baxter this morning beffert set f ert rent a little daughter to baxter w with I 1 t h the information tic that he wished to become reconciled with his son bulaw in law and would apologize to him for his threats and abusive language baxter went over and seifert treated him kindly him where a be he had hadima mads daa a record oc of the marriage in the family bible and requested him to Is let mary marx come home bome baxter consented and after much persuasion mary who 31 seemed to be very much afraid went ment when she entered the house she found her father sitting on a trunk with his face buried iu fa his hands she spoke to him but received no a answer new or sho she then turned to co go into a bed room when her father seized a shot gun standing behind a door and discharged one barrel at her blowing away one side of her skull and face the poor girl tottered a moment and f fell ell forward As she did so the blood gushed out in a torrent deluging loging de the floor and her fathers face and bands he ile contemplated bis his awful deed for a moment then placing the barrel of the gun in bis his month reached down and pulled the trigger blowing bis his head bead 0 off ff his Is shoulders and scatter scattering iv i brains and particles of bone bons and blood blood a all 11 over the walls and ceiling of the little room his ilia headless body fell backward over the trunk on which be had been sitting the husband of the girl heard the double report and hastened to hia his ather father in laws house the a sight i was too much for him and heia he la now a 1 76 7 6 |
