Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-05 | Page 4 | Woman Shot by Wife Slayer in Serious State

WOMAN SHOT BY Y WIFE I EN T SERIOUS SERIOUS' I STATE c ct ct 5 Reports 5 Reports from the Dee hospital In Jn this city Monday i were to the effect that Mrs Mrs' Ir 1 Lillian Lil Ln- Lillian lian EkIns 56 who who who- was shot through the sad hand by her son in Henry 24 Saturday night after he had shot and Killed his bis wife Mrs Lillian Ekins 19 and had wounded his sister-in- sister la law Eldora Ekins 4 4 has a chance to recover Her condition however however however how how- ever is said to be serious as the bullet entered tl the the e left lert ear and emerged ed through the ek bone The Tire younger 3 Ekins girl who was shot through gh the left letl wrist is rep reported improving who was was employed as' as asa n. n hostler by the Southern Pacific railroad killed himself himself by sending a bullet through his brain after he had shot shoot the other others He was a native of ot North Carolina where hewA he hew wA w s born December 29 29 1900 Practically all his life had been spen spent in Ogden His father lather John lives at 16 road HIs Ills mother Is dead Surviving him besides besides besides be be- sides his father are three brothers John Ernest and Lawrence and one sister Mrs Christina all of Ogden Ogden- Ogden i Mrs was was' born In Slater In Slat Slaterville Slater Slater- r- r ville March 22 1906 Surviving SUr her Are re her parents Mr and Mrs Henry B. B Ekins 2644 ker Brinker avenue avenue ave avo nue where the the shooting occurred o two children Jack 2 years years' years years-andi and 9 months and ad 1 year year old old and f the following brothers and sisters Mrs Irs Elzada Folker Mrs Irs Bu Bud Buchanan Mrs John Palmer and Henry Henry- Year Vear Eking Ekins of ot Ogden Amasa Ekins of ot Albany N N. Y Cyril CyrU Ekins of ot Los Angeles Clyde Ekins and Eldora of t Ogden