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Show MYSTERY IH TRAGIC DEATH IM COUPLE Iie-t 1 Harder and Suicide (ii- JJouble Suicide Ma) Be V'-r Known, Portland. Or., Nov 7. A special dispatch dis-patch from NewbOrg, )r . reports the tragic death al this place of Carl Hur-fot-,1 and his wife, a bride of alx week. Whether the lrtig.il was one of munb-r or suicide or double lUiclde may nt-ver bo inuH n. Huiford Had Been 111. Hurford had been si.-k (or several days. ToiIh his wife visited the manufactory where her husband was employed, seeking seek-ing Information nt t. whether he would he ie-, niplo e, (,n , gaining his health she wan toid that her husband's position WOUld be sa..l for him, but seemed not to he 1 i-assui ed, ami appeared m-iv ai-tfiU-il. ii was iii.n'i ih.it Hh. In pt I,. 1 hand under her cape during tho Interview, as If hiding something. Wife Calls for Help Shortly after sno returned home s shot was heard and llrs Hurford rushed int. the stii-et , ailing for help. Two neigh-1 hot s responded, hut as they aj.pi ...it h--. I the house a second ami third shot was heard. The body of .Mrs Huiford w.i-found w.i-found llng on the bed dead, and ( r lit,.- - band, a xHplng wound in his i,r. bead la. on the floor, both having died in- stantly There are two theories, one that the v.. .man shot her husband, then becoming 1 lightened, ran out to the street calling for help, after which sin killed herself Another theory, however. Is that tho husband hus-band killed himself and that M-, wlf-beforu wlf-beforu calling for help. In her (rejisy Of fright end anguish, picked up tin revolver re-volver and sent a bullet crashing through tier 11W 11 load Revolver by Her Side. The revolver WSJ found by her lde. No powder marks are visible n round the wound In the husband's forehead Hurford cams here with his mother and brother from Missouri about .1 .-u ago. Mrn. Hurford enme from Missouri lo marry her husband about two mouths go. , |