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Show TRAGEDY RESULT OF QUARREL. Idaho Man Shoots His Wife and Then Ends His Life Rather Than Surrender Sur-render to Posse. Spokane. Wash. Battling with a posse of citizens who surprised him in a house where he had fortified himself, him-self, Philip Clemens, wife slayer, shot himself and cut his throat, dying almost al-most immediately. The tragedy occurred June 19. at his farm near Deary, Idaho. Clemens secured se-cured his wdfe through a matrimonial bureau, and she left him quickly. Saturday Sat-urday morning she drove to the ranch with four men to get her belongings. As they approached the house Clemens fired through a window and his wife fell dead. Her friends fled. Returning Return-ing with a posse, they were halted by Clemens, who said he would shoot the first man who laid hands on him or touched his wife's body. Slipping into the house unseen, members of the posse attacked Clemens. Seeing the struggle was hopeless, he killed himself. |