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Show MURDERER HANGS SELF Young- Farmer Shoots Three Persons Who Withhold Wife. Sheboygan, Wis., Oct. 28. Alvin Roehror, aged 30, a young farmer of Plymouth, shot nnd killed his father-in-law, Phillip J. Ott. Mrs. Ott and Mrs. Ott's father, Fred Haut, aged 80, when he was refused lwrmisslon to see his wife, with whom ho has not been living. Whon young Rohror, who lived just opposite Ott's home, demanded to 3ee Mrs. Roehrcr, Ott answered tho door, but refused the young man admittance. admit-tance. Rcerrer went homo, returned with a shotgun and shot and killed Haut. Mr. Ott and his wife came out of tho door, Roehrer dhot them al3o, both shots entering the breast and killing them. The young husband next entered the house In search of his wife, but 3he had heard the shots and had taken her baby and hidden In a cupboard, where she remained until Roehror left. The only eye-witness to the triple shooting was tho 4-year-old adopted son of Ott, -who was at tho milk shed. Thinking that tho entire family had been killed, he went upstairs and hid in bed, where he was found hv a physician Roehrer's body was found today hanging to a tree in the woods about half a mile from the scene of the tragedy. It Is suppoBod he committed suicide, fearing vengeance by a posse |