Show FATHER KILLS HIS WIFE AND THREE C LOREN AND COMMITS SUICIDE r I Awful Crime of f R G t W Derby a Machinist pf of CI Cleveland Y t 0 Who Had Hadt t f B Been P the th e Races and Ruined R fI Him Himself self Financially LE LEVELAND L ND Dee Dec 20 OR W WDerby tV C Derby a machinist despondent of iia financial affairs killed Mp I t wife and their three children at home here bere early today and then molted suicide Th dead d ad i W Derby aged 45 lila his w Della Delia Harold aged 8 Alice ag aged 1 1 Thomas Thoma aged aced B 6 L The crime rime waa wan extraordinary in its 5 J thoroughness and evidently had planned carefully by Derby j Derby had been down town ton ae e late as 11 last night ostensibly shopping but in All pro W e curing ammunition for hip b re When he be arrived home MI his W wi e and lid he talked for a tI time with ber who had bad beet been calling alJ ov 0 ovir r a amas Christ t mas mae festival they th had haG Wife l While JIl A p The crime is believed to have e 4 I committed about 4 o lock this morn mom i I ing ng Mrs In Derby was shot to death in tn ind 3 d two bullets having been fired into tr ter r forehead head and a third probably fired j I ter the children ren had bad ad been bt eu ext erminI In the back of the neck Mrs 11 Derby erby t probably was killed dur j p the Ute expression ion on her face j i no sign Ip of 01 struggle Two of or ore Che children e however probably had a ale I le with Derby after they had bee awakened by the tite shooting and andia I ia an ineffectual t attempt to escape e Cape Capes s body was as found in a pool of o In the kitchen and that of AUra AU the tile dining room with her h r face to the theand floor and a bullet tn In t her lIer breast j Could C Not Kol ot Escape 1 id hi evidently bad had been chased cba ed edthe I tsat the house by hs bs rather as the te were in disorder From Fromel te el location atlon of h hiS s wounds the boy i was caught by his father ather and ld Id while the revolver was placed I against the little fallows f head and two ho bullets sent ent ent into his brain There ao was aa evidence of a struggle on Alices part The last or of the children to die was Thomas Th aged ag 5 L ik He had bad remained in I bed bed probably still asleep when shot him in the tb head bend Apparently be had beep been killed instantly 1 Iy I Suicide of at the Vather ther After the crime had bad been committed j Derby went nt to the bed room where his hiB wife Ife lay dead tead and lying down at Qt her ber side fired a bullet ballet Into his has own brain braini brainA A number of pool room race checks I were found about ab ut the t house hOU e showing shoeing that Derby trying his ilia luck at The TIte first knowledge of the crime was communicated in a letter written by byDer Derby Der yesterday to o a 1 friend ia in t this city The Tile letter tetter was warn to the effect that when it waa received the t th Derby family would be h 6 dead ad When ih the friend relend hur bur hurried ried vied to the house hou this morning the ter fible tragedy was revealed |