Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-14 | Page 5 | Kills His Two Sons and Takes Own Life

KILLS HIS II SDKS 10 TAKES 01 LIFE WelI-fo-D New Yorker Evidently Evi-dently Driven Insane During Fit of Despondency. . NEW-YORK. March 13. Herman Mor-IU, Mor-IU, 15 years old, and two sons, George and Walter, were found shot to death tonight In their homo In tho Bronx, It appears to be a double murder and suicide. sui-cide. The father's body was in a hallway, tho son George. 21 years old. lay dead In a closet, and Walter, 16 years old, was j found in the cellar. Morlf.: was a retired real estate dealer. The bodies were discovered when officers entered the house, after a watchman had rung a firo alarm at the request of Moritz, who had rushed lo the. street, yelling that his house was on fire. ilromcn In the meantime began extinguishing extin-guishing the smnll.blazo in tho cellar. Moritu ovidcntlv was seized with a fit of despondency, to which neighbors say ho was subject, killed both his boys, set a firo In tho cellar, gave the alarm, then returned and shot himself. 11c was woll-to-do.