Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-07 | Page 3 | Father Slays Son, Daughter and Self

FATHER SLAYS SON DAUGHTER AND SELF SEL F Machinist Stabs Children With Hunting Knife Turns Shotgun on Own O Body OIL CITY Pa March 7 1 iVA V iV- VA A boy and girl are dead of knife kniCe wounds inflicted by their father who then ended his own life liCe with witha a charge from a double shotgun while hile the radio blared away in the living room of their home borne The father Axel Axe G G. Anderson 53 a machinist was found lifeless lifeless life life- less in the family garage late yesterday yesterday yes yesterday yes yes- beside the gun and a fish fish- fishing ing fag pole with which he pulled the trig trigger er The son Paul year old high school student who had been ben excused excused ex ex- from classes early carly in the afternoon in compliance with a note written by the father lay und under r a table in the kitchen of oC the home Nearby alongside a pile of potatoes po po- potatoes she had been peeling was the daughter Mildred 19 She She- and nd her brother had been stabbed tabbed through the heart with a four inch four inch hunting knife The tragedy was discovered by another I son Harr Harry 23 on his return return re reo turn home from work Officers could n not t find any explanation ex cx- tion for what Deputy Coroner Coroner Co Co- roner J. J R R. R Sharp termed a dou dou- ble slaying and suicide but an an n investigation Investigation in In- last night disposed disclosed they sai said that Anderson apparently apparently had carefully planned ev everything ev cv On Monday night he he went to the office of a Justice of the peace and turned the title of his automobile auto auto- automobile mobile over to his son on Harr Harry ln Unemployed for some time and despondent Anderson recently got a job with the Oil Well Supply Supply Sup Sup- pi ply company and was supposed to have gone Jone to work yesterday Instead he arose early and went to a downtown barber shop where he obtained a haircut ut and shave shae Then he wrote the ex excuse excuse cuse case that enabled Paul to leave school chool at 2 p. p m. m The bodies were found at 4 p p. p m. m An orchestra was playing loudly over the fam tarn family family ily fly radio A piece of meat was cooking on the stove