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Show TRIES TO KILL WIFE, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE LOS ANGELES. Cal., June 3. After taking two shots at his wife today and engaging In a duel with tho deputy constable con-stable who attempted to arrest him. Chris Taple. a carpenter, barricaded himself him-self in his house at Watts, a suburb, and blew out his brains with the charges from both barrels of a shotgun. His wife, who was uninjured, became hysterical and could not give a coherent account of the events which led up to tho shooting. J. T. Whaloy. the deputy constable, was not seriously wounded. |