Show t. t Itah fah Farmer Kills Wife Ex Sister-in-Law Sister Self t f r led Child 9 i ees Father lay Two Women ilder Ider Boy Watches Par Parent ant Fire Shot at Mother I Ian n Believed Brooding Over Rift Salt Lake County While County While one of his two sons looked on in horror Maynard Nielson 36 Hunter ir r early Monday shot hot and killed his divorced wife Mrs Spencer p nce Niels Nielson n 29 9 and her sister Mrs Irs Evelyn 33 s Angeles and ana later corn coma i 1 i. i suicide prostrate with grief and lnor of at erac cracking ing pistol shots broke his slumber about 1 Monday year old Blaine Elaine xi In in who witnessed the shoot- shoot Nas at atthe the home of his aunt Verda t M rda Merrill in inVest West Vest Jort Jor- Jor older brother Spencer Niel- Niel l. l who had seen his father his aunt a second time pith ith him Lake county sheriffs sheriff's 1 i aid td the killings apparently ed from Nielson's Nielsen's sulking h he fact that he had to to return ly Iy of the two o boys to his ex ex- ex i The couple were divorced two months ago with Mrs taking n the two sons to the theof theof theof of her parents Mr and Mrs e Spencer In Bluffdale Shots ier ler terms of the divorce Nield Niel- Niel id ld d the children at his home inter Sunday for a visit 5 p p. p m. m Sunday Mr Spencer grandfather returned to his home n cers said Ni Nielson lson drove dro to residence south and of Point Pain t of ot the Moun Mountain tain site about 1 a a. a m. m It was hereafter that Mr Spencer voices in the hallway folby folby folby fol- fol by two shots which seemed ic e from the bedroom where Nelson Mrs and unger ringer boy were sleeping Spencer and the older boy in another bedroom thome an into the bedroom Mr Spencer and saw dies of my daughters on the Evelyn on her hands and andon andon andon on the larger bed and Clara cross a smaller bed on which y was sleeping Ison ilson was still in the room pencer continued pelf elt eltI eU eUI I I entered he fired tired two more at at himself but himself but they went ito the ceiling of the room en ri he forced me meto to take the hildren out to Nielson's car carh carh h he started started- started and and and drive u Mr Spencer and the and the boys raid laid Deputy Sheriff George Lead bead Nielson reentered the them thenn nn am m lay down beside the body former wife and shot and himself Spencer who recen recently ly unit un- un int it l an operation was at a alake lake kc kc h hospital spital Mrs ng Los An- An l tad Had ad been visiting her father aster ter hooting orgy with a toll of Ives ves was the most gruesome ih LIL since July 19 1943 3 when amuck in Ogden Continued OH on Page Pase EI Eight ht Column One I Y l V r LF by l y a t. t V 2 W t t ei t i 1 4 Tg t tf f f t l Zi s Y p V 7 i i J. 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V Trueman who granted Mrs Cox a divorce several weeks before the shooting Mrs Mra Nielson received a a. a divorce decree from her husband April l 7 r In Third district court The decree Ie- Ie de decree cree was based on cruelty and noted noted not not- ed that the slayer had struck his wife Caliber 22 Gun GUD Deputy Sheriff Beckstead said Nielson had used a caliber 22 automa au au- toma tic Mr Spencer told the officer that es 88 as Ji he Mr Spencer entered the bedroom he stared stricken horror-stricken trout bout the lighted brightly-lighted room Youve killed them he gasped Yes mumbled Nielson and andY andI X Y intend to kill mys myself H He t then hen en order ordered d y 67 year 67 ar Mr Spencer to take the children and leave to protect yourself and them Mr Spencer drove to the home of tl M. M S. S Larsen bishop of f the West Jordan L D D'S DS S ward and Mr Larsen immediately tely called the sheriffs sheriff's office Sheriffs SherIff's officers said aid the call came caine in at a a. a m. m Deputy Sheriffs Milton L. L Brown and Lee Richardson answered red the Call taU with Deputy Sheriffs George Beckstead and George Bills ar ar- arriving riving soon after they did Mr Spencer was terribly grief- grief when he arrived at my place said Mr Larsen and the boys were vere were hysterical T Taken ken to Aunt Mr Spencer and the boys stayed at my place and I went to the Spencer home to await the sheriffs sherif's officers said Mr Jr Lar Lar- sen Deputy Sheriff Be Beckstead said Mrs had beery been shot once In the back and once through the arm arm armand and chest The position of Ii her r body on the bed indicated she may have been crawling toward the bed on which the boy was sleeping when she was shot the officers said o Mrs Nielson had been shot once in the arm and once through the chestI chest I thought both of ot them were were- dead Mr Sp Spencer told officers but butI I rushed in and put my arms around Clara r And white while I l looked on Nielson shot ot Evelyn again agam I heard her Ji groan oan Previously Held A 11 Deputy Sheriff Beckstead recalled re- re recalled re called aUed that Nielson had been taken into cus custody ody about a a. month ago on a charge of disturbing the peace at the Spencer home Nielson nelson was was' sentenced ed to pay a afine fine of 50 and serve six months in the county jail when he pleaded guilty to the dl disturbance charge Justice of f Peace White said he heUn un d the ui March 29 charge was based ased on threats against Mrs Mr Nielson Nielson Niel Niel- son son who was was' then estranged from th the man who became becam her slayer Execution of the sentence then Im Imposed posed was stayed on on promise of Mr Ir Nelsons Nielsen's good behavior and condition that he pay 15 0 of the fine The officer said Mr Spencer Mrs Nielson and Mrs had stopped at the Nielson home in Hunter en route home from a visit with Mrs Sp Spencer in the i b bS fir fir- S W x F r rY Y S F SF S SN Nc N c 4 Y S fh a n. n l k c c k III r l rr y S ss V Scenes of Double SI Slaying ying a. a and adS dS Suicide cide Upper photo the quiet well-kept well home ome and yards of the G George orge Spen Spencer r. r residence in in BluH Bluffdale ale Lower w r photo the bedroom in n whish which h Nielson shot and killed killed his former wife and her sister then killed himself hospital aria ana had picked up- up the children hildren 1 at that time Mr Spencer told me that except except ex- ex ept for being a bit downhearted ed d Mr Nielson appeared to be beas beas bes as s usual when the boys were picked up said Deputy Sheriff Beckstead Alton Spencer brother of the two wo women victims described Nielson Nelson as as' ordinarily a good fel- fel low ow I r was was' the only one in the e family family fam- fam ily ly that he Nielson would come to o after the trouble trouble trouble-I I mean divorce di di- di vorce and vorce-and and w we talked over some of the ho misunderstandings the brother broth- broth er r said Unexplainable able Act Maynard always seemed to tome me meo to o be a nice fellow Of course he e would get mad at little things once nee in a while like like any fellow would but on the wh whole Je I couldn't see ee any unusual meanness in him Speaking of the divorce the brother rother said It was just one of those hose things They just didn't ge get along He explained that Nielson apparently apparently thought Mrs was going to take Mrs Nielson and the he two children to California That is the only reason I can think of that caused him himm to shoot Evelyn Mrs he said aid o Mrs bars was born N November November Novem Novem- ber 19 1912 at the family residence residence resi resi- dence lence in ili Bluffdale She came to Salt Lake Lakee county two days ago from rom her home in hl Los Angeles after she had been Informed of her mothers mother's illness Mrs rs Nielson w was was born also a at athe atthe the he family residence on 01 June 21 1914 They were the daughters of George R R. and Mamie Mitchell Spencer In addition to their parents the sisters are survived by four broth- broth S ers era ers D Mark ark and Herman Spen Spencer er Los Angeles Alton Spencer Spence Salt Lake City and Valdor Spencer Riverton and a a sister Mrs V Verda rda Merrill Bluffdale Mrs Airs Nielson also is survived by her two sons and Mrs by her husband Arthur F. F Schel- Schel lang r sf i r rit l it A A rr 1 The Murder Weapon Deputy Sheriff Milton L L. LBrown Brown first to to sc scene ne of murders and suicide at Spencer home views the caliber cliber automatic fir fired d' d dby by Maynard Nielson |