Show MAN KILLS CHILDREN Financial Worries Blamed for Wiping Out of Entire Entire En En- tire Family By Untied United Press Pres HUNTINGTON W W. Va July 21 A verdict of triple murder and suicide today was given by Coroner F. F X Schuller who investigated the deaths of the four members of the Pettier family whose bodies were found at their home here Neighbors the house late last night and discovered the bodies of Robert 41 his wife Flora 38 and their two children James 10 and Ardith 14 The bodies were sprawled around two downstairs rooms In attitudes Indicating the herror horror her hor of the sudden violent deaths USED REVOLVER Coroner Schuller said ap apparently apparently ap- ap shot his wife and children with a revolver and then took his own life with the gun Wednesday night The shooting was attributed by the coroner to financial which friends of said had weighed upon ilLs his mind recently Schuller believed the man and wife had gone to bed Wednesday night and that an argument ensued The mc bedding was disheveled A womans woman's purse containing 7 lay on the thc floor near byThe by The mothers mother's body was found inthe in lit the bathroom where evidence indicated indi she was attempting to stop a a. nosebleed may have struck her the tho coroner said and followed her to the bathroom where the murders mur ders apparently started Ardith the daughter was found just outside the kitchen shot through through- he the head A hammer was in her hand Officials thought she probably probably ably had Intended to attempt to protect pro pro- her mother The bodies of Pet Pet- and the son were not far from that of Ardith Louis brother brother- law n-law found the bodies A girl girlfriend friend of Ardith who called at the home told neighbors that no one answered answered an an- the door They investigated and called Gilt lien was a Huntington barber |