Show l EJECTED LOVER SLAYS FATHER Youths Youth's Gunfire Holds Police Cordon at Bay MERRICK ERRICK N. N Y April 16 IP lP P-A P A year old rejected suitor killed the father of his former girl friend Saturday then held off police with a shotgun while pleading for her forgiveness in a tear gas-filled gas bedroom The suitor ex-suitor DeWitt Combs of Wantagh N. N Y finally surrendered surrendered sur rendered to police after he had barricaded himself in the girls girl's home and pleaded with her to forgive me and be my girl again Police said the handsome youth felled the girls girl's father Francis S. S Fay 53 with a blast from his shotgun in the course of a furious gun battle in the kitchen of the darkened home F Fay y di died imme imme- Police surrounded i the house but were held eld at bay by y the youth who shouted from the upper story of or the residence that he would kill the first man that comes conies near this house Tear gas bombs were pumped into th the residence Finally a policeman policeman policeman police police- man crept near a window and shouted assurances to Combs that neither he nor the girl would be harmed if he surrendered Combs then tossed the weapon into the yard and gave himself up Combs had known the Fay family since he was a child and often visited their home pol police ce said He grew increasingly fond of ot Fays Fay's eldest daughter Rita 21 and they began going out together Combs frequently proposed marriage marriage marriage mar mar- but Rita rejected him Last November she told him she never wanted to see him Wm again About 2 am a.m. Saturday the youth armed with a shotgun broke into the cellar of the Fay home Hearing the noise Fay grabbed up a heavy automatic and started to investigate In the cellar Combs pulled the main mam light switch plunging the house into darkness Then he crept up to the kitchen He and Fay met there in the darkness and both opened fire blindly Neither was struck by by- bythe the first shots and Fay raced to the front door shouting to his wife to call police As Fay opened the door silhouetting his body against the faint street lights Combs shot once again Fay collapsed and died on the front stoop The youth then slipped upstairs where Rita and her sister Betty 16 had locked themselves in a bathroom Combs blasted the lock lockoff lockoff off oft the door He told Betty to go downstairs forced Rita into a bedroom and there kept pleading with the screaming girl to forgive him and be my girl again t tRita 4 y Y My i gar 1 L Ly Rita Fay Her father slain by bJ her rejected bo boy friend w S 6 L Ls s Y f 1 y De DeWitt VItt Combs Unrequited lo e led to shotgun killing |