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Show USED MAXIM SILENCER. Real Estate Operator Murders Wife and Two Daughters, Then Suicides. New York. Hermann Auerbach. formerly a wealthy real estate operator, oper-ator, on Sunday shot all but one of his family as they slept in his home - in an exclusive apartment he once owned at 386 Central Park West. He then killed himself. The police believe be-lieve he was driven desperate by approaching ap-proaching poverty after having lived a life of luxury. The tragedy is remarkable because of the weapon. It was a Winchester repeating rifle loaded with .44-caliber dum-dum bullets, to which was affixed a Maxim silencer. The attachment permitted the slayer-suicide to move from bed to bed, firing one death shot after another with no sound louder than the click of the weapon to warn the victim of approaching death. |