OCR Text |
Show INSANK ON RKIiKHON MAN KILLS HIS WIFE AND COM. MITS 3UICIDE. Deed Committed In Presence of Nine-Year-Old Son, Who Gave the Alarm, But Too Late. A. A. ltolks, a well-to-do farmer of Sioux City, Iu., murdered his wife In a boarding house In I.os Angeles, Cal.. by rutting her throat with a pocket-Vnlfo pocket-Vnlfo nnd then, turning tho weapon on .himself, ended his own llfo In n similar sim-ilar manner. Tho deed was committed In tho presenco of their nine-year-old Ron, who was nwnkpned by the sounds of tho struggle nnd gave the alarm, but too lato to an use assistance Roth wore dead before medical aid could bo Bttmmoncd. Rolks was sup posed to bo temporarily deranged ovc religious matters and to havo committed com-mitted tho crlmo In a moment of lr- responsibility. IIo had been acting I qucerly for about a week, and on ono I occasion recently kept his family up all nlfilit praying, exhibiting a revol ! ver at the tlmo and threatening to tako their llvei. |