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Show Man Kills Himself After Chopping His Wife With a Halchet San Francisco, Nov. S John Edward Cooper, a lathiug contractor .attacked .at-tacked his wife with a hatchot, in his sleep, at his homo here early today and then killed himself with a razor. ra-zor. Mrs. Cooper Is dying at a local hospital. Mrs. Anna Hughes, a boarder, heard the woman pleading with her husband to "wake up' 'and not to hurt her. The door of the room was locked and Miss Hughes, unable to enter, stood outside and heard the blows when Mrs. Cooper was struck. Hystcricnl, Mrs. Hughes called the central emergency hospital and ambulance am-bulance was rushed to the apartment house. The police already had reached the place. Several hatchot cuts dented dent-ed tho woman's skull, while one arm was bioken and the body bealfii into a mass of bruises. Her fingers had been cut off in the struggle. The family had boon In a happy mood the night before Cooler was known to be a man of quiet and orderly or-derly habits and had never Hliovvn signs of being mentally unbalanced. The case of somnambulism, or or insanity, is made more extraordinary by the faet that tho crio appcrently was planned with great deliberation, as Cooper nroused his si'ven-v ear-old daughter and carried her out of Mie room before be attacked Mrs. rasper, : tolling tho child to remain quiii Two other daughters, 2.T and 16 years old, heard I heir mother's plea for moroy but the door was closed and they were unablo to enter. |