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Show CRIME OF INSANE FATHER Shoots Two Boys and Buries Them Side by Side. San Francisco. John Cornyn, recently re-cently released from a state hospital, appeared at the police station Monday Mon-day with his clothing covered with blood and said he had killed his two boys, Arthur, aged 7, and Andrew, aged 8, In the hills twelve miles from here. For several hours he maintained lie could not remember what he had done with the bodies, but later he led a party of officers to tlie spot where they were buried. "They begged for their lives," he told a priest at the jail. "But they looked so pretty that I had to shoot them. I shot Andrew first. Arthur started to cry. He did not know what to do. I shot him then and placed their bodies side by side. |