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Show MURDER AND SUICIDE. A Miner Fail in a Lovo Suit, Munlcro the Object of His Adoration and then Suicides. dlji.atcb lo tho IIii.D.) American Fork, 3. This thriving hut quiet littlu city was thrown into a fevor of excitement on Sunday by a fearful double tragedy. Mrs. Fannie Pollock, the unwilling victim of the tragedy, has resided, here for more than a year. Her husband is a miner and works in Bingham cunun. Their's wm ft case of domestic in felicity, and it is said that during her , residence hero her husband ha not 1 v:sited her. Mrs. Pollock had I an intimate miner friend named George Knell, who worked in Tin-tic. Tin-tic. Sue!! has been making love to Mrs. Pollock, desiring her to obtain a divorce from her husband, aud marry 1 him, Thu she per-tiulently re I used lo do. On Saturday she learned that Siicll was about to pay her a vi-it, and not caring to meet him at her 1 louse, she took her threo little children, with some bedclothes, and went to tho residence of William Wenton, which is some distance out of town, near Allen's mill, where she remained all night. Suell arrived here by the Utah Southern train Sunday morning, morn-ing, and learning that Mrs. Pollock was at Weston's, repaired thither. He met Mrs. P., with whom he con i versed for a few minutes, and then 1 requested her to walk with him, as ho desired to talk to her privately, ' She hesitated, saying to Mrs. Weston that she wits atraid lo go with him, but finally consented, and the two left ihe house together. They had gone but a fow rods, when pialul shots were heard, and a couple of boys raj to Weeion's telling that Sndl had shot Mrs. Pollock. v hen the scene was readied, Snell was 'lying, and the woman was lying about six leet from him, mortally wounded. Snell was shot through the lelt hreast, aod expired in about ten minutei. Mrs. Pollock staled that during the walk Snell had again seriously pressed his suit for her bund, but B ie had firmly refused to comply; he also warned her to return to her home with him, which she declined to do, aud was about to go back to tVeston's, when ha drew a pistol and fireJ three shots at her, one bullet going through aud breaking her ngbt arm, another entering tne back and and coming out above the right breast, and ihe third going in at Iho back aod lodging in the body. He then shot himself, and pointing to the wound in his left hreast, said, "I am shot," and fell to the ground. Mrs. Pollock lingered in great agony until nearly midnight, when she also died. Justice Hindley aod a jury titld an inquest on ihe body of Soell this morning. A number of witnesses testified, among which were two boyB who saw the shooting. The verdict was in accordance with the facta as related above. Sued was buried to-day and Mrs. Pollock will probably be buried this evening, unless her husband, who has just arrived in town, makes some other arrangement. Snell was about 35 years of age. He had bem in this territory a few years, and was a Canadian by birth. Mrs. Pollock is said to have been originally from Missouri, but she has been many years on tbc Pacific coast. She was about M years old. |