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Show mm mi j IN DEATH PACT I ! Magna Girl and Boy Commit Suicide and Leave Note Girl Is War Bride. ' SALT LAKE, Nov. 11. Carrying out a doath pact between tho two, Bert Walker, a boilermaker, 21 years of age, residing at Magna, shot and killed 15-year-old Glcnda Titcomb Smith, a war bride, and then, turning the weapon wea-pon on himself, inflicted a wound from which he died eight hours later. I The tragedy occurred yesterday ! morning at 10 o'clock, In a rooming ' (house at Magna, at which tho couple (had registered earlier in the morning. At 10 o'clock the landlady heard five shots, the sounds coming from the : room occupied by the pair. She immediately imme-diately notified Deputy Sheriff J. M. , Maxwell, who broke down the door of ( the room. The girl, lying in the arms . of Walker, was dead, shot through the ! heart. Walker, still alive and fully ' conscious, tried to order the deputy out of the room, telling him there was 3 nothing wrong. The deputy telephoned , the coroner at once and notified the ( sheriff's office in Salt Lake. Dies in Hospital. Walker was taken to tho St. Mnrk's , hospital In the Otah Copper company ambulance, but gradually grew weaker and died at C o'clock last nighL Ho mado severaUattempts to tell officers from the sheriff's office tho cause of the shooting, but was too weak to tell a connected story. "re oi me snots that were heard by the landlady entered the ceiling of the room, and had evidently been fired by Walker before he placed tho gun oyer the heart of the girl, nnd then over his own. Doputy Maxwell found the gun unter the body of the girl nnd doclared that Walker had probably prob-ably pushed It there after shootin" himself. A note round in the room, and addressed ad-dressed to a Mrs. Dowloy, confirmed the belief of the officers that the tragedy trag-edy was the outcome of a suicide agreement. The note read: Woman Leaves Note. "I won't bo to your little partv today. to-day. We are going to end It all at 10 o clock this morning.' Ploase sot my wrist watch at 10 o'clock, for that Is the time wo are going to blow off. There are some people hero in Magna who know who -wronged me, and they have been after me and blaming me for It. So tnc best way, out of it is for me and Bert to go together. Don't put any flowers on my grave. Don't put any on Bert's. Qood-bye, "OLENDA." Friends of Mrs. Smith declared that tho motive for tho suicide was undoubtedly un-doubtedly founded In her oft repeated assertion that she and Walker were deeply in love with each other and neither could live without tho other Mxs. Smith, h&d attended a party Sat-, J quarreled -with him. She left the house m at 3 o'clock Sunday morning and met , Walker. The pair went to the rooming ' I house where tho shooting occurred, m and registered as man and wife. . .1 Was Under Surveillance. B Deputy Maxwell declnred that tho . M young woman had beon under his sur- ' M velilance for some time at the request M of the juvenile officers, and that he jl was trying to locate hor when he heard i jl of the tragedy. -Her husband, Alma , jl Smith, is serving with the expedition- ary forces In France. M Walker was a widower, and leaves two small children. He lived with John fl , Miller, Jiis father-in-law. He has : W worked intermittontly for tho Utah jl Copper company for two years. Last ll spring he went to Snn Francisco to m -work in the shipyards, but returned , 11 about two months lator. ' M |