Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-24 | Page 5 | Husband of Model Slays Son, Mate's Mother

Husband of Model Slays Son Mates Mate's S 'S Mother CHICAGO March 24 UP Double UP-Double Double murder charges were placed Monday against William Evans 25 who police said fatally stabbed his mother-in-law mother and year two-year-old son and seriously wounded his w wife e Americas mos beautiful ul brunette model Evans was under police guard t at a hospital where he was taken after climaxing the attack by plunging the blade of the hunting knife into his own abdomen Police Pollee said Evans went to the home of his mother-in-law mother Mrs Ethel Sanders Saturday to attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt a reconciliation with his wife Nedra 22 who had filed a divorce action When she spurned his us pleas police said Evans seized I a inch five-inch hunting knife off a table and lunged at his wife Mrs Sanders stepped into his path and andle he le killed her with three swift slashes slash s of the blade He met his small son Douglas I in n a hallway and struck him down The boy died Sunday Nedra attempted to flee nee the house but Evans blocked her path and stabbed her twice in the chest chestand chestand chestand and abdomen She ran screaming down the street Evans following Two men seized Evans before he caught his wife and he plunged the knife into his own body screaming screaming scream- scream ing ng Shell not divorce me Ill I'll leave her a widow Mrs Evans a professional model who a week ago was chosen by illustrators Americas most beautiful beautiful beau- beau brunette said at a hospital her ler three years of married life Ilfe had lad been disrupted periodically by her husbands husband's fits of insane jealousy