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Show ; SHE WODLDNT MARRY. And the Young Fool Then Pulled a Pistol and Shot Her Through the Temple, THEN BLEW OUT HIS OWN BEADtS. The Awful Work of the Green Eyed Mon-ster Mon-ster A Jealous Indiana Man Shoots : His Wife and Then Himselfi Chariton, la., Oct. 20. On Saturday Satur-day afternoon Elmer Oliver, aged 21, arrived here from Kansas. He hired a livery team and drove to the little town of Freedom. There he went to the honse of Mr. Tuttle, requested to see his daughter with whom he was in love. He requested the girl to marry him. She refused saying she was too young. Oliver then pulled a revolver and shot the girl through the temple, causing instant in-stant death. He then turned the .weapon .wea-pon upon himself and fired a ball through his head in the same place he had shot the girl. He lived in an unconscious un-conscious condition until this morning when he died. ANOTHER JEALOUS FOOL. - pe Shoot Ills Wife and Then End Ills Own Miserable Life. Evansville, Ind., Oct. 20. Near Clairsville yesterday, Henry Krohn, in a fit of jealous rage, blew his wife's brains out, then suicided in the presence pres-ence of his three children, who were paralyzed with fright and powerless to do anything to prevent the awful crime. |