Show HE SHOT FIVE PEOPLE Massachusetts Man Attempts to Exterminate Family RELIEVED TO BE INSANE t eweler of Turaers Tails Shoots and Kills His Clerk a Young Woman and His Little BoyHis Other Victims Vic-tims Were His Wi cnnd Two Daughters It Is Thought the Latter Lat-ter Will Not Die Evidence Shows That Ho Intended to Kill Himself but He VISas Dlsarncd Turners Falls Itfass Dec lIiouls I3it7cr n Jeweler of this place today shot llvo persons two of Whom his clerk Miss Ida Columbc and Cltzcrs llvcycaroM son ue dead His other victims were Ills wife 1 Christina and L his two daughters Annie about 16 years of age and Carrle 12 years old It is thought they will not die There is evidence that it was Bltzers pucpose nlso tx > take his own life but his prompt arrest appatcutly proven ted him from carrying out this purpose He Is about 33 years of age From a note loft In his store by BItzcr it appears that while he was cleaning a revolver the weapon was discharged accidentally and the bullet hit Miss Columbo In the head killing her Instfiiuly Overcome by tie accident 1 Bllzer rushed to his home hatless < md wild with excitement and began tlc work of exterminating1 his family The little boy 111 in bed was shot and killed The sixteenyearold daughter Annie was wounded through the left hand nnd ear The twelveyearold daughter Carrie was shot through the neck Mrs Eitzer was hIt in the face the bullet passing through the nose Tho sound of the shots brought neighbors into the house and Bitzer was arrested The police believe Wiat Bitor Is J Insane The note which they found In his stole after the afttur was almost an incoherent i in-coherent jumble of words After t telling tell-ing of the shooting ot Miss Columbc Bltzcr I wrote that he had determined to go to his home and end the lives of his wife and children and his own He asked that at his funeral the hymn Nearer My God to Thee be sung Substantially the same story was told by Bitzer after Ills arrest |