Show Father Knifes Kills Baby Wounds Wife i fe PITTSBURGH Jan 5 UP UP- UP An army veteran Tuesday nigh night t stabbed his old month son wi with witha a kitchen knife then took him b by bythe bythe the legs leSs and bashed his head hea d against a bedroom wall because e he didn't want to bring him u uin up p in such a troubled world When his wife tried to stop him John Mahoney 26 stabbed her re repeatedly repeatedly re- re about the head and bod body y until she fell unconscious the dead deac d yd baby in h her r arms When police arrived at their Beech district home Mahoney was trying to commit suicide by slashing his wrists and throat threat His wife Mildred 28 was i in n critical condition in Mercy hospital hospi hospi- tal with 12 stab wounds Mahoney was vas recovering from superficial 1 cuts at the same hospital Police e said he was violent and had t to tobe tobe o be strapped to his bed He Hc told detectives he decided decide d last week to commit suicide because because because be be- cause he was being persecuted and that his life was just one e hard knock after another Mahoney said that they hid m my y tools at the thc garage where he h e worked as a radio repairman an and d when he came home from wor work k Tuesday he decided to take m my family with me His wife said she watched him m walk nervously about the house hous e when he came home from work Suddenly he picked up a s all all paring knife and went to the c ib where the baby Jimmy yas sas s sleeping J 1 J I He stabbed the child twice then picked him up by the feet and swung him against the wall When she grabbed the baby from him Mahoney struck at her with the knife Mrs Mahoney told police |