Show iL ii H 5 WifE SETS HOUSE HOS f A E THEN v. v ENDS OWN LIFE I I New a TV Wf I I f i Insane l i locked r line Servants in n Room RoomI I Committing 1 Double Tr Tred HIi d Qu 0 r P NEW YORK NOV 23 A 23 A DOUBLE TRAGEDY WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE SUICIDE SU SUo ICIDE WAS VAS DISCOVERED EARLY TODAY BY FIREMEN U NJ WHO VUO HAD BEEN CALLED OUT 0 O SUBDUE A ABLAZE ABLAZE ABLAZE BLAZE IN ill TIlE THE HOME rE OF NIK SMITH Sl A WEALTHY MANUFACTURER AO TunER TUBER OF NEW V WHEN THE TIlE FIREMEN BURST INTO THE TIlE HOUSE AFTER ArTER THE TIm FLAMES HAD BEEN CONTROLLED THEY TIlEY FOUND I SMITH Sl AND HIS IllS YOUNG WIFE DEAD EACH WITH A BULLET WOUND IN THE TIlE BODY MRS SMITH HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE TIlE BREAST AND APPARENTLY INSTANTLY IN IN- Y KILLED Ih The bullet which killed the husband h. entered hi his head harl just behind tho the left ear On tho the floor beside Smiths Smith's body hod body was wa found a revolver r with which it is is s believed the shooting was waft done That Smith had killed his hill wife fired the house in the tho lope hop of hillin hiding his hi crime and then killed himself was as plainly II proven pro in a note which was Vas found fount in In the room Note Noto Proves Insanity I That the th art act was nan aA that thal of an insane be hr almost man seems scents to an as clearly pro en on by tho the wording of the tho not note It It was addressed s. s f to It Dear Minnie and Dd in it Smith told of his intention of killin killing his hi wife i setting cUin tin fire to to-tho to the house houa and killing n him himself cIC He Ile said that he had b. out cut ofT off his hair because hi his head ached The police have hav not learned I the identity of oC Minnie Min Mm nie nil but a. a assume 11 me that she he is a relative of the tho dead man roan It is ill believed that fully an 10 hour and anda a n. half between the time tim Mrs Ir Smith was W stint shot to 10 death as she lay sleeping in her hr lied bed and th the firing of f the house houI In this thi interval 1 Smith Amith made madea a careful inventory in of nearly everything everything every every- n. thing of value in the house hoime and left in In Instructions in that his hi debts should bo be paid Locks Two lu iu Room Two women servants were Cr locked in ina a II room filled filed with th smoke One Our of oC the women omen told the police polin that Mr Ir and anti Mrs Smith hail quarreled violently last bill evening She said also aho that tha Ib she had h heard ard two shots fired and that there thero was walt nn an interval of at least an hour and a A. half between th the tho first and second pond Durin During all the time timo from the tbt firing of the thC first shot until the t firemen came arne tb the woman said aid she nail and her companion had remained re d in their room Smith was an automobile manufacturer and had a place of in thin city eity |