Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-09 | Page 4 | Chemist Slays Family, Self

CHEMIST SLAYS FAMILY M SELF r FORT WORTH Texas Nov 9 UP O. O W. W Harper a former chemist apparently turned his home into an execution chamber early today today today to to- day and killed his wife their three children and h himself elf Before he died he pinned a note on the front door warning of deadly gas within Firemen heeding the warning looked through windows and saw the bodies Later using gas masks they entered the house but it was too late to revive any of the five In two bedrooms they found five one-gallon one stone crocks in which a liquid had been mixed Police believed believed believed be be- it was acid into which potassium potassium potassium cyanide had been placed The result was a gas such as some states use for legal executions The dead were Harper 44 H who has a bakery since he left his chemists chemist's job with the grain exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change last spring his year old wife their daughter Charlotte 9 and two sons eons Windell 13 and Tom 7