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Show FATHER SLAYSi . WIFE AND GIRLS Wealthy New Yorker After 8ho3tlnB Three Turns Qun on Himself Now York, Jan. 31. Armed with n magazine ride, equipped with an automatic silencer, Herman Auorbnch a wealthy real estate operator who had becomo despondent because of financial rovorses today shot and killed kill-ed his wife and two daughters as they slept and then, returning to hU own bed killed himso'.t. Ills son Lostor, a high school Btu-dent Btu-dent was tho only member of the 'family loft allvo. So completely did the silencing do-vlio do-vlio mufflo tho roports of tho weapon weap-on that tho tragedy was not, discovered discov-ered until soverni hours later, when tho son found a note from his father. Tho quadruple killing took place In an apartment houso on Central Park West Coroner Felnberg stated that Auor" back ovldently had been planning tho tragedy for several duyB. Tho dead man's sen Informed the coroner that his father had brought tho rifle homo nlno days ago. Tho coroner expressed express-ed tho belief that the real vstato man's despondency was duo to recent depreciation In valuo of mortgnges and securities which bo held. ' Tho boy found under his door a note in his father's writing which read: "When you wnko up telophono Uncles Un-cles Leopold and Joo Levy nnd grandpa." grand-pa." Tho boy went to his father's room where ho found his father and moth-or moth-or dead In their bods, botwoen which lay tho rlflo. Dashing Into tho room of his s'--ters ho found Beatrice aged 18, and Daisy, two years joungor, dead also, with tho bed clothing tucked about them and drawn over their bonds. When tho coron6r enmo ho found on a desk In Aucrbnih'B room four empty cartridge shells of heavy caliber, cali-ber, apparently those, which had been ejected from tho rlflo after each shot Inasmuch as the fourth bullet was that with which Auerbach ended his own llfo, tho coroner cou'd not understand un-derstand how all four shells had been picked up, but finally deslded that the son might havo found tho fourth nnd placed It with tho others wlth-fout wlth-fout realizing that ho was doing so. |