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Show KILLS WOFIflN HE LOVED AND SELP His" Offer of Marriage Refused, Re-fused, Ray Merrill Shoots MrC Leslie Then Com- - mits Suicide. BLACXFOOT, Ida, Teb. 18. Disappointed Disap-pointed ia love, Bay Merrill shot and tilled Mrs. Maud Lester and then took his own life yesterday. The shooting occurred at the ranch if Jacob Keeney, about four miles tortheast of here, early in the morning. Boy Merrill ia a eon of Jacob Merrill ana waa employed as ranch foreman by Keener. Mrs. Leslie waa a widow and the daughter of Mr. Keeney. For tome time, it is said, Merrill had been baying attentions to the young widow, but bis suit had been many times refused. re-fused. He called upon Mrs. Leslie and It ia presumed that he again asked her to marry him, and that being refused he Ibot her through the heart. Ho then turned bis revolver upon himself, ihooting himself through the right temple. tem-ple. Both the man and the woman were well, known .throughout southern Idaho ind'eame from highly respected families, fam-ilies, . - .-. |