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Show ffvrff Gronacfes Worker Kills Self After : Wounding 2 " VAIXEJO, Cel., Aug. 5 WD A grenade-throwing araenal worxer killed himself her Friday night after wounding two deputy sheriffs sher-iffs and holding 25 officers at bay for an hour. '. The policemen and deputy aher-lffi aher-lffi finally fired tear gas Into the barricaded apartment and rushed th place. , ; Aa they charged. Sheriff John .Thornton aald, they heard a shot .and found Everett Walker, 11-,year-eld Benecta araenal worker, dead with a bullet hole In his head. , Walker's lS-year-old wife, Jean, summoned police after, aha said, her husbaltd buret Into tha apartment apart-ment and fired three shots from the platoL Mrs. Walker and her later, Mrs. Ellen Shryack of Guam, fled unharmed. They had been packing to leave, Mrs. Walker said, because her husband had ordered them out after a quarrel Thursday night . Deputy Sheriffs Henry McGuIrs and Floyd Albrecht were Injured by shrapnel from a hand grenade which Walker threw from the window win-dow aa they approached in answer to Mr. Walker's call. Walker toaaed two more grenades during the siege without causing further damage. ' Beside a 38-ealiber pistol lying by Walker's aid when officer entered. Sheriff Thornton said the apartment contained two riflea, carbine, a ahotgun and another grenade. |