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Show "Bad Man" Shoots Two Girls and Kills Self Louisville, Ky. William Zinsinelster, regarded as a desperate character, created cre-ated havoc among nearly half a hundred hun-dred persons enjoying themselves at a picnic given by a church club on the banks of the Ohio river by killing his daughter, fifteen; a girl companion, sixteen, and wounding another girl and two youths. A few minutes later, on the point of being captured, he shot himself to death. Miss Sara Connelly wag shot while near the river bank. She fell Into the water and her body floated off down stream. Armed with two revolvers and about 00 rounds of ammunition, Zinsmeister left bis soft drink stand here and was driven to the scene of the picnic tn a taxlcab. After only a few words with his daughter he began shooting. lie fired 18 shots at the young people. Zinsmeister, whose brother Is serving a life term for murder, before leaving for the river, told his stepson-ln-law, C. A. Luckert, "I am going to kill five kids this afternoon." Zlnsmeister's wife was burned to death several years ago. |