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Show In a Drunken Rage He Shoots His Wife's Uncle and a Child. , ' ' ' j " HIS WIFE WANTED TO LEAVE HIM Which Caused Him to Fly Into a Par-, Par-, oxysm of Rage and Revenge Rose ' Within Him. 1 ! Abe Myers,' of Kansas City, Mo. , many ysurs ago wooed and won the pretty meet of Bttijamin Van Uorn. They were married, mar-ried, and for a short time theirs was a life of love and happiness. But soon Myers took to drinking, then to nbnsing his wife, who, driven to desperation, left him. He promised reformation and she returned to him. This happened many times, each time his subsequent outbreaks of drunken brutality being more violent. So a few weeks ago the patient woman decided de-cided to leave her husband, never more to return, and as usual found a shelter under the roof of her uncle, Benjamin Van Horn. When Myers found his wife had determined deter-mined to leave him for good he sent her note after note, imploring her to change her decision and give him one more chance. Myers concluded that the uncle influenced his wife in her decision, lie drank and brooded and brooded and drank till the devil of rage and revenge rose within him and thoroughly mastered him. Arming himself with a revolver he crossed over from Kansas City, Mo., where U !,. 1,,,..,,. t.r.novmnnn hurt heen snftnt With Uim "1'1'J i'vj.ww yr his sweet faced little bride so many years SwrtwSi had alwayiftived when aifiC W together, to Kansas 7 f) City, Kan., where I v Y hip heart- jA ,4C5t' broken wife feKA9'wi was, and CHJ a a presented HISS VAMHORW h. tvC. fjk her uncle's .vSiTWi house, de- lmvanfwm 1 m a n d i n g (7" f) admittance xtA'.!vJM if As he stag 'L gered up Ti BUR-the BUR-the pathway to the houiie Jw Mrs. Myers and her un- "'JSwJ ' clo were sitting on the clo were sitting on me -- stoop, and the wife fled " into the kitchen. Old Mr. Van Horn spoke kindly to the wretch, for he wanted want-ed no trouble, and offered his hand in greeting. But Myers rejected the prof-ered prof-ered hand and said, "I want to see my wifo," and brushing the old man side rushed Into the room where the frightened woman had taken rctuge. In an instant he was upon her like a tiger, and while he graspod her by the throat with one hand he drew his revolver with the other. The old man followed the burly ruffian Into the house, and just reached the room in time to see him point the pistol pis-tol at his wife's heart. Van Horn grasped the murderous hand and thrust it aside, and in the turmoil that followed the terrified ter-rified woman escaped from the room. Then Myers pounced upon the old man and shot him. Aa the old man fell to the floor, with his life blood spurting from the gapiug wound, Myers rushed from tha room in pursuit of the woman. Coming down the stairs he saw the pretty young daughter of the man be had just shot down a sweet girl, with whom he had no quarrel and in his blind rage he turned his smoking revolver on her and drove a bullet through her body just below her heart. The poor girl screamed in agony and the murderer turned and fled to the yard, where he found the old man, who had dragged himself that far, leaving a trail of his blood to mark the way. The sight of tueold man weltering in his gore seemed to further madden Myers, and he again raised his revolver, saying, "I'll finish you now!" The old man piteouslf cried, "Oh, don'tl don't) you've done it already!" al-ready!" and at the same moment the voices of the neighbors, who had been aroused by the shots and the screams, warned the desperado des-perado that he had better fly. He jumped the back fence and started to ruu, with a score of people and one police officer in pursuit. Before he had gone many rods he turned and discharged his revolver at his pursuers, and one of them received the bullet in his thigh. He turned to run again, but tripped up and fell, and was soon surrounded by an angry mob, one of whom produced a rope and wanted to string him up there and then. This would have undoubtedly un-doubtedly ben done but that the police officer drew his revolver and kept the crowd at bay till he landed his prisoner in the lockup. |