Show RELIGIOUS FANATIC KILLS WIFE SELF I SPRINGFIELD 0 March 30 30 A double tragedy attributed to re- re re religious fanaticism was re resealed lucre here Sunday when the bodies of ot John Bircher 73 and hIs bis wife ifo Ida 1 69 were ere found In their cotta A coroners coroner's coroner Jury found that had shot his wife Ife and then therm killed himself A note pinned to the mantle n piece led investigators that the tho to belles belle 20 shooting occurred March BIrches BIrcher was ae sta a member of II a Stint Mission In Springfield and Is andIs reported to have hate prayed publicly for the con conversion of or hl hi his wife Bircher was as a former ormer wIdower with nine grown children His I wIfe fo 1 was ns the mother children of ot i 11 chil chil- dren by a former marriage |