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Show uu MURDE.ROUS MANJA ENDS FOUR LIVES Walla Walla, WaBh., July 5. Seized with a murderous mania late yesterday, Sergeant John Proctor of tho One Hundred and Twenty-sixth company, coast artillery at Fort Wor-den, Wor-den, Port Townsend, Wash., shot and killed his former wife, his son and daughtor hero and then turned the gun upon himself, dying an hour and a half later from the wound In his head. The shooting occurred In a lodging lodg-ing house, of which Mrs. Proctor had been proprietor since her divorce last December. The dead: J. PROCTOR, aged 40. ADA PROCTOR, dlvorcod wlfo, aged 28. NELLIE PROCTOR, daughter, aged 14. . n EVBRETt PEOCTOR..oa a;ed $ Mother and son wero asleep in the mother's room, and it is believed the crazed father killed them while asleep. The daughter fled from the room into that ono rented by the father, where ho later sent a bullet through her brain and took his life Proctor, a gun sighter, obtained a month's leave of absence about two weeks ago. He came to Walla Walla and put up at his former wife's lodging house, paying room rent as a regular patron. He and his daughter daugh-ter took dinner at a downtown restaurant res-taurant last night, and afterwards he sent the girl homo while ho mingled ft ?' with the crowds on the streots. aj " Proctor used an automatic revolver fl a? and but four shots were fircJ ' ' Mrs. Proctor has been in constant fear of her husband since their dl- If 1 vorce according to friends. M nn im |