Lehi Sun | 1921-04-28 | Page 5 | Crime of Insane Father |

Type	issue
Date	1921-04-28
Paper	Lehi Sun
Language	eng
City	Lehi
County	Utah
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Article Title	Crime of Insane Father
Type	article
Date	1921-04-28
Paper	Lehi Sun
Language	eng
City	Lehi
County	Utah
Page	5
OCR Text	Show CRIME OF INSANE FATHER f t Shoots Two Boys and Burle Them t Side by Side. I San Francisco. John Cornyn, re- 1 ccntly released from n stato hospital, ' appeared at tho pollco station Monday Mon-day with his clothing covered with ' blood and said ho had killed his two i boys, Arthur, aged 7, anil Andrew, : aged 8. In the hills tw'clvo miles' from here. For several hours ho maintained ho could not remember wh.t ho had dono wltll the bodies, but later ho led n party of offlcors to tho spot whore they were burled. "They begged for their lives," ho told a priest at Uio Jail. "But Ihev looked so pretty tlif.t I Jiaj tp shoot them, I shot Au.Wcw first. Arthur started to cry. Ho did not know what to do. I shot Wm then nnd placed their bodies side by side.
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