| Show ROY MERRILL SHOOTS WOMAN THEN HIMSELF Double Tragedy Most Sensational Sensational Sensa Sensa- tonal in County's Criminal Criminal Crim Crim- inal Annals MAUD LESLIE HIS VICTIM Un Unrequited Love Is j Assigned I as 1 Prompting tho tIre Shoot- Shoot leg ing I Republican Special Service Ser Blackfoot foot Ida Ila F Feb b. b Unto Ume 17 Unrequited I fulte love lovo murder and an suicide figure In ono one of or time the most sensational tragedies tragedies rage rage- dies ever evem recorded ed in iii Bingham county and In which Mrs rs Maud Leslie Is Iseal dead eal the tire victim of a pistol shot from froma a revolver In the tire hand Irand of or Roy Merrill who Is also cold in death eath his own vic vie tim lam lm The case caso is parallel to the tho Couch- Couch Miller double tragedy In man many points point The Time shooting occurred at the ranch of or Jake Jako Talc Keene Keeney about four miles mies northeast of o this cf city at nt 1 o'clock this morning Roy hey Merrill Merri Is a son xon ion of or Jacob Merrill Merri ann and was employed as ranch much foreman by ly Keeney Mrs Leslie Lesle was wa a willow widow and anti the daughter of Mr For somo some time past It I Is said sid Merrill has been paying atten atten- attentions I Ions tons to tho ho young oun widow but his suit sull has been heen man many mairy times limes refused His Ils offers of marriage have been heen spurned i and amid ho lie was in a rage He lie le called upon Mrs 1118 Leslie Lesle and nut it I Is presumed I that ho he again asked her to lo marry marry marry mar mar- I ry him and that being refused ho he ia shot her through h tho ho heart He lie then lien turned his revolver upon himself shooting himself through his iris right temple Both Dead When hen Found I I Tho The occupants occupant of or the ranch house were ivore nil all al asleep and were awal awakened ened l h by the tire sound of oC the tho shots The They rushed rushed rush rush- ed Cd out to lo find tho ho cause and discovered discover discover- ed the thre man and woman both dead Blood was streaming from their wounds and life was extinct when they were reached reache Coroner Cotoner was summoned from fromI Idaho I aho Falls and at took up an investigation The Tho papers In tIme the woman's womans womans woman's nomans noman's wo wo- mans man's room will wil be bo searched by the officers In an attempt to ascertain the time thereal thereal real motive of tho tire murder which was followed b by suicide e. e Both tho the woman and the man are well wel known throughout southern Idaho and come from flom highly respected fam Lam 1 e s |
