Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-09-01 | Page 6 | Double Tragedy in Los Angeles

90DBLE TRAGEDY IN LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, Sept. 1 Dr. Walter I Owen Ryan, said " to have been a wealthy physician, formerly of Springfield, Spring-field, III., shot and killed h'ls wife and then committed sulcldo at their home horo today. Dr. Ryan shot his wife whllo the couple wore at breakfast. Two young Bons who were upstairs heard the shots and found Iho body of their mother In the hallway and their fa-thor fa-thor bent ovor the breakfast table, dead. C D. Ryan, one of the boys, told tho police his father recently had shown signs ot an unbalanced mind. His mother visited a lawyer yesterday yester-day for advice. Springfield, III., Sept. 1. Dr. Walter Wal-ter O. Ryan was ono of tho most prominent physicians and surgeons in central Illinois, succeeding to a large 1 practice built up by his father. His wife was a socletv loador and the daughter of Rolla D'lllor, a drug-giBt, drug-giBt, whoso store In the heart of f Springfield's business center, was U made historical by Abraham Lincoln, who was a close friend of Mr. Dlller, J ' Mrs. Ryan was on only daughter. I For yoars their social associates knew that Dr. Ryan and his wife, who woro married twenty ycarB ago, did not got on well together During recent years they took their meals out and It Is generally commented on that Mrs. Ryan and her young son usually dlno aone, the doctor coming In to meals usually before or after they had left the hotel. Dr Ryan was one ot the attending physicians at St. Johns hospital here and friends say ho unnerved himself by overwork. Recently he made a trip to Europe for the benefit of his health. k