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Show FARMER SLAYS WIFE AND LITTLE CHILD Fires the House and Commits Suicide; Fear of Draft Causes Tragedy. By International News Service. MUSKOGEE. Okla., Dec. SO C. E. Logan, a prosperous farmer near here, is believed to have murdered his wife and four-year-old child as they lay asleep early today, then set fire to his home and committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor. Fear of being drafted into the army is thought to have been the cause of the double murder and suicide. Logan was about 2$ years old and his friends say that he had been worrying for the past two months over being called in the next draft. A posse of officers found the charred bodies among the ashes of the farm house. The heads of Mrs. Logan and the child were almost completely blown away. Logan was lying at the foot of the bed. The double-barrelled shotgun with two empty shells in it and the bloody razor were lying under Logan's Lo-gan's body. |