Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-23 | Page 13 | Rancher Goes Insane, Kills Wife and Child

RANCHER GOES INSANE I KILLS WIFE AND CHILD Fresno Cal Dec 22 Stricken with sudden Insanity G C Cheuvront a rancher killed his wife and one ono child wounded three others today and ended his own lito Ifo under the wheels of ot a railway train a tow fob hours after the tho I tragedy Mrs Mm was at tho the kitchen range preparing breakfast when her husband entered carrying a heavy he hatchet Without a word he split spilt her skull with one blow Leaving her ly Iy ing there ho entered tho the bedroom whore ills children lay la asleep p In III rapid succession s on ho struck while they th y were sleeping In their beds George aged 14 H Claude aged ased 12 Gladys aged gid 10 and an nn Infant daughter Nellie Nollie Claude is dead and Gladys Glad s is dying while tho he others will recover As ho emerged with his reeking weapon M M McClung H a stepson aged 19 met him on tho the porch The maniac sprang upon the youth and In chopped viciously at his head Evad ing In tho blow McClung streak his step father heavily on tho the Jaw The Tho blow hlo stopped him him and the tho hand that told Mold the tho hatchet fell rell to Oils his hi side bide Without ut speaking the tho rancher extended Its en ensanguined handle handlo to McClung and ami turning ran to tho the railroad track A posse engaged by McClung found round his dismembered hotly body In a n culvert beside tho the rails mils on which the thc slayer hal had sought to expiate his terrible deed