Show Murder aud Suicide EW BEDFORD Mass June 6A ter ribe tragedy occurred in this city just before noon today In the outfitting store of Philip D Slocumb Slocumb was sitting at his desk in the counting room making an entry in his ledger when Charles Foss came from the backroom back-room leaned a moment against the railing dividing the counting room from the store and without speakinc drew a revolver and fired one shot which entered Slocumbs head at the base of the skull and he fell from the stool to the floor and died almost instantly Immediately Im-mediately after this Foss went to the back room and putting the muzzle of the pistol to his right temple pulling the trigger and fell to the floor The pistol was held so close that his forehead fore-head was singed and the bones fractured frac-tured |