Show RATHER THAN STARE a death 90 of a nebraska fam family I 1 ay iy HUSBAND 38 al D W WE le BABE I 1 DEAD tho the father and ira hotha jhc thc aund with their ahr throats ats cut cat th tew morn bora childs body with them det itu tion drove thorn thom to it C t osgi adulf 1 baker of crook county Y wy wyon ing under arrest taylor 1 Is abro ab r paxton neb jan 14 As a result of destitution and their helpless alwa ion ilon among amone hundreds ot of starving people joan harris and wife living a few ew miles in the country COMMIt ed suicide and the ahe body ot of their newly born babe was found with its parents sometime after sire mrs harris was lying yin g on the bed entirely nude with her throat cut from ear and the bed clothing saturated w with ith blood the husband was found dying on the alie noor floor near by with his throat gilt clit the coroners inquest found that they had come to their death by their own lands hands a razor living being used to commit the deed the mother had expired P r d in the throes ot of childbirth childbirth the cc couple uple had only moved to their plate place a month ago the house in which they lived was a sod bod dugout seven m mils cs northwest of 0 here the surroundings of the place went to show that the pair were in very poor circumstances cum stances no motive can call bo be given for the deed except that she bhe was expecting soon to become a a mother and was on tho the verge of starvation and suffering the follow following ng letter written by the husband was round found dear old parents wo avo have hae decided to end our lives together arether to ida cut her throat and I 1 ell cut t mini mine 1 I would give the wor world i to aeo my poor alu fattier father anti and mot mother er it t seems like a year since I 1 saw lilly any of my folks from the marks of blood it was apparent that harris after cutting his throat had crawled all over the h house ouse and outside it a few feet from the door coming back into the louse house on his I 1 hands ds and knees ile he had bad evidently died trying to open the door again his arm being stretched seemingly to reach the door handle although the motive tor for the deed was destitution ald aid could have been had for the asking ashing the parents of the couple coupie arrived ai rived this morning and will take the tha remains to nichols Nl chols neb tor for ln in r paxton a Is in the eastern part of X keith alth county the country around about lias has produced good crops in times past and will undoubtedly do no again but the failure in 1893 and was almost complete and the situation of the people is pitiable among the diffrient famil families lec in keith county in a state of destitution there are arc between SW and children |