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Show BEATS WIFE TO DEATH WITH CLUB TACOMA. Wash. i May I T. H. H. Oardner. J, traveling preacher attached to no et. beat his wife to death with a club Hunday. a mile east of Kittitas, and after attempting to drown himself In an Irrigation ditch gave himself up. Gardner to:d th officers that h feared If ha did not hill hla wife she would become be-come unfaithful to him through lnfluno of his enemies. He said fie had received re-ceived occult messages to that affect. Gardner ts 47 years old and his wlf was ? He waa educated In the Mary- 1 land Theological seminary of the Met ho- I dlst church and preached for ten years I naar BaJtlmor. |