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Show .Mnrder and Suicide. Chicago, 12. A peculiar case of murder and suicide occurred to-day at a boarding house on North Wells street. Joseph W. Gladden of Oska-loosa, Oska-loosa, Iowa, one ef the boarders, was v;aueu in a is room ny jurs. iuauu Bell, the wife of Robert 3. Bfill, a brakeman on the Iowa Central. What passed between them is not known, but tho screams of the woman brought the occupants of the house to the door of Gladden's room, just in time to see both these persons tall to the floor, their throats fatally cut with a razor in Gladden's hand. In dying he clasped his arms about her with a vice-like grip. No cause is assigned. |