Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-18 | Page 1 | Husband Slashes Crippled Wife's Throat, Then Own

I Husband Slashes I Crippled Wife's I Throat Then Own Had Cared for Her 13 I Years It Was a Kindness Kind Kind- I ness Woman Says Man Liable to Die CHICAGO March 18 We AP-We who have health homes and happi- happi what ness do we know of such tragedy as has come to the Edwin I l 34 years Cars old is an elevated ele- ele train guard Fifteen years he le has been married and during thirteen of those years his wife Mabel has has- been crippled by rheu- rheu Each day before l leavIng for work vire McD has bathed and Ills his wife prepared their breakfast fixed something for fOL her lunch and I In the tho evening gotten the dinner tidied the small flat read aloud the newspapers and travel boo books s or of I which his wife was fond and then prepared her for bed Twice a he le had a holiday Those were the times for scrubbing the floor and doing tho hundred odd things necessary to l keep the place clean and homey Last night cut Ills his wife's throat wIth a- a razor Then lie he used the weapon on himself CIllo did it It Mabel l told police But it was a a. kindness lie He wanted me out of my suffering lIe He has always been so devoted so very good to inc me Mrs will recover Her husband will not