| Show double murder and suicide A dispatch from helena may 2 gives the following account of of a terrible tragedy shortly after 6 to john 1 I rand baud shot his wife his bis child 8 houtos old eld and himself the woman and the murderer are dead I 1 and the child is not expected to live till mor morning Ding the deed was done with a winchester repeating r rifle tie and terminated the lives 01 ol a brutal wife beater the victim of his temper and their innocent offspring three weeks ago rand was put in jail for beating bea tiner his bla wife but was released by her ailing bond this morning rand again assaulted his bis wife and then left the house he returned at C 6 and his first act according to the story atory of his young daughter was to catch her mother by the head and pull her off a chair mrs rand sent the child for help just as tle tie child left the house bouse she heard beard she looked around and saw her mother running across the yard with the baby in her arms just then she heard another shot and saw her mother fall with toe the baby underneath A minute later the girl heard a shot in the house the shots attracted a crowd who found that the first shot had bad struck mrs rand iu in the shoulder eb and passed through her arm the second shot had bad struck her in the spine apine and passed through her breast and broke the babas back in which it lodged while the third shot ahot had bad carried off the top ot of the murderers head and aad scattered his brains allover all over the house bouse hedded he died instantly his wife lingered twenty minutes and the baby is still alive al though physicians say it i the murderer 46 was years w wife 89 years old ife he camj ham me in IF 1852 52 insanity lusania the family ozie one of randle bands vw u ing banked himself and abot his life in a way that was imael oer rand band was worth a few tho lars but was insanely jealous eals lived with his wife sixteen ix w had only been married marrie vet are five children left 1 I |
