Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-09 | Page 3 | Idaho Tragedy Takes 3 Lives

TRAGEDY i TAKES 3 LIVES r t MOSCOW Idaho Jan 9 PIt PI- PI 1 The The bodies of three persons lay in ina fa a morg morgue e here her c toda today mute evidence i Jot of the bloodiest crime in man many y years years in this Inland farming di dis district i I t The victims of a brutal double slaying daring sla ing are Mr Air and Mrs Airs Donald M. M Hopper Hopper- The third body is that of oP H Harry JHarry air Y Bacon their thel r former farmhand farmhand farm farm- farmhand hand whom Sheriff Charles Summerfield Sum- Sum said shot himself after killing the Hoppers 1 l The Tho tragedy a was as revealed Y yesterday yester yester- esterday ester ester- r day after neighbors became becam apprehensive apprehensive apprehensive at the absence of signs sign of life about the life Hopper farm Hoppers Hopper's Hoppers Hopper's Hoppers Hopper's Hop Hop- fure pers per's body tva was wa found in the front room The bodies of Mrs Airs Hopper and Bacon were were found in a barn barna a a. amile mile awe awa away Notes at the scene of the deaths Indicated the shootings occurred Sunday night over aver grievances s which Bacon magnified with drink Notes left b by Mrs Hopper and Bacon disclosed the horrible experience ex ex- experience of the slain mans man's wife She Sie scribbled Harry Harr Harr came home drunk and just shot Don and took tooka a shot at me I dont don't know snow what tt will m ill happen next She took a poison Bacons Bacon's note I told of her Iter suffering j The sheriff sherif said there would be beno beno fn no inquest unless relatives relative request t