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Show CRIME OF CRAZY FARMER. Kills Wife and Four Children and At-Tempts At-Tempts Suicide. Fergus Palls, Minn. William Buck-helm, Buck-helm, a farmer, aged 50 years, murdered mur-dered his wife and four children and shot himself Thursday night at Parker's Par-ker's Prairie. He was found dying when his son went to the farm on Friday. . Huckheirn declared that ho had received re-ceived a divine command to proceed to a certain graveyard, where ho and his family were to exhume several bodies, using only their bare hands. Unless this command were carried out before Faster, Uuckholm said, ho nnd his family would bo dragged to death. After examining the graveyard and finding it would be impossible to perform per-form the task on account of the frozen ground, Iluckhelm said he killed his family to escape divine vongeance. |
