Deseret Evening News | 1909-09-02 | Page 1 | Crazy Butcher Defied Police

CRAZY BUTCHER I i m DEFIED POLICE i iJohn b John GUnderman Barricaded His Home and Murdered His Wife By Choking Her kt HE PUT UP DESPERATE FIGHT 4 Threatened to tn mil Kill lint FIrt Man Ian lnE 1111 Joll Held Officers om nt at I f I Time Tinte for tor Sonic l I t i I Spokane Sept t J JIn 9 J In his hla hi home hom at 14 U Monree Monroe street defy It In Int the tho entrance of ot tho ho poll police Ct John a crazy butcher murdered his hla wife wll at this morning by b choking her TI h hi put up pp a tI I I J tight fight with omeara before h he was taken into Inlo can cUstody tody The report that n R crazy man Was wan I In the house hou arrived armed with two tO big re u revolver I volver lied hall brought a force toree ot of police pallet policemen i men to the place smut And soon a crowd gathered threat threatened f I coed ened to kill time the first man who entered 4 the tho how house hou and held hehl kl the officers at bay b i ifor for tor 15 or 10 20 minutes Not ot knowing t that anyone anion wal III hi the house with him they lIMo hesitated to precipitate a gun Jun tight fight until It WM wu reported that hl his wife 5 1 4 1 there ther Than the II nuh nish was wan made against the tile door dOOl and Ami the tho officers officer after Artor a IL hard had struggle overpowered but b t not until after tIr he lie had nearly bitten ort oft the finger of ot Detective Weir and kicked 1 and amI scratched hed the others Mr Mrs was wan than thon discovered dl bIng In a bedroom droom with marks mark on omm h hea C throat thrust showing that she ehe had lied been I choked to 10 death 1 was Ivas A formerly an all Inmate of or the Insane Inn asylum at t Medical L Lake ke