OCR Text |
Show SHOT BEHIND THE EAR. A Bookkeeper Speeds a Ballet Through Ills Wife. Child and Himself. Milwaukee, Nov. 21. William B. Binder, bookkeeper for Liedeisdorff Tobacco company, com-pany, this morning shot and killed his wife, his five-year-old daughter and himself. The affair occurred at the home of tha family, 876 Cambridge avenue. When found Mrs. Binder and tho little girl were still alive, but the former died before a physician arrived. The little girl is still alive but she has a bullet bul-let wound through the base Qf the brain and death is inevitable All the victims were shot behind the left ear, blowing their brains out. Binder who waa a steady and re. ' spected man, waa tho bookkeeper of Bv Leidersdorf & Co., tobacconists, whose works burned during the recent big fire. A consolidation with the Merchants' tobacco works was effected a few days ago, and he thought he would have to accept a subordinate subor-dinate position in the office, which affected Binder's mind. Binder was about S8 years of age, his wife 32, the child 5 years. |