Show A an iowa man ilan butchers nis his wife and family then suicides ides carrolton Carrol too iowa sert sel t 27 the slaughter of a mother and her six children occurred at the home of john boeker a farmer alvin living ei eight P lat miles northwest of here last night boeker the fiendish husband completed nis ms bloody work liy by sending a bullet ballet into his big own head bead inflicting a fatal wound the family were prosperous germans and as far as is known had lived happily no motive for tile the tragedy has been disclosed boekers ISo ekers victims are his wife and these children caroline aged 14 christine aped aed 1 henry aged 8 lune lillie aged 6 john aged 3 and an infant all are dead but henry arid and the abe latter cannot recover from chiq hi wounds coelers Bo Do ebers elers brother henry who lives about twenty rods away went to the boue bouce at 9 this morning 0 and was the first to know of the tragedy boeker with his wife and baby slept in a back room and their corpses lay on one bed the wife had bad been shot in ill the neck with a shotgun which thich stood in the corrier corner the baby bad been shot in the head and iti ita it i skull crushed with the but of a revolver the hc man still breathing had a bullet hole bole high up in the forehead and by his side was a smith wesson wessin revolver witla with two ch embers em pied upstairs henry and lizzie lizie lay on a bed with bullet holes in their beads the latter dead the boy still breathing in the opposite corner of the same room carolina caolina christine and john were dead each with a bullet hole in the th he forehead though I 1 caroline had two late this afternoon the bodies were still untouched the sheriff and coroner being occupied in arranging for the inquest and other pr pre e imilia amina bics |