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Show Nl'ni'AVHIMl IlIlUOLlSrl. I'alrlrtdn for llix slake, or Tud Thousand Dollnra. VHiCACo tJc IS. A crlntd of surjossliig uiibolism and rt dramatic dramat-ic sequel took place ton Jht iua little tenement in wet Lint' Carl Holtz, an aged n doner, lived alunc iu an upper flat with tits sou Paul, aged lti. Tonight the boy took to bed With hint an old table knife, and after his father had gone to sleep raised up in bed and cut hli father's throat from ear to ear, severing sev-ering tlie Jiutilar "-rln mnj windpipe.' wind-pipe.' Hie young parriciue then rushed to tlie West Chicago Avmue l-olicestationaud declared his father had attempted suicide. When tho ,!Le reached the houte the old man was still alive. Lut could not speak. He had crawled from the bed and on a piece of yellow ttrapplng-paiwr, which was ln-qntten-d with his blood, lie wrote In German: "Paul Holtt did St." The paper was the first Intimation the police had of the nature, of the anair. A doctor bandaged up the old man's throat and he uttered a fen hotse ffprd. With fiucer poitit-iug poitit-iug to ard lib son, be said: -'VUu have killed me, Paul, but you can never enjoy the money. God will punisli you for this." A few moments mo-ments later the old man expired. The money referred to was SJ030 life insurance In a benevolent or gaulntlon. |