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Show KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF. And Simps Weapon nt Children in Dyin? Agony. RICHMOND. Ya.. May T4. Crazed by III health. Frederick VS. Hill nrly this morning ehot and tnstantlj killed his wife. Then he fired three bullets into his own body and. while dying, snapped the empty weapon, a hea arm platol, t his rhlldren. The bodies todav lie side by sldo In tho parlor of the modest little house on Idttlopage street. Klght hll-dren. hll-dren. ranging In age from 10 to 3 M ars, aro left orphans. inn. wh.. waa about 40 years old, a skilled machinist, had been In 111 health for months and unable to work at his trade Ii-4t night he was particularly restless and wandered about the bouse, keeping his family awake Just before J. o clock ho took his army pl-t.d from a chest and. without warning, begun thing at his wife Two bullets pierced her lungs and tho third found lodgment In her heart She fell dead and the man turned the pistol on himself He fired thr e times each bullet entering his heart. Although dying the man, as he lay on the Hour, was able to snap the now empty weapon at li It children, who rushed horrified to the door. A Coroner's Jury today returned a verdict ver-dict In accordance with the abo e facts, declaring that Hill waa insane at the time of tho commission of his double crime Mrs Hill who was younger than her husband was the mother of twelve children, chil-dren, four of whom ai- .bad Had sh lived a month longer another would have been added to the family. The unfortunate unfortu-nate husband and Wife will be burled together, to-gether, and the orphans will "ao cared for |
