Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-10 | Page 2 | Shoots Wife and Two Boys and Escapes |

Type	issue
Date	1920-05-10
Paper	Ogden Standard-Examiner
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Shoots Wife and Two Boys and Escapes
Type	article
Date	1920-05-10
Paper	Ogden Standard-Examiner
Page	2
OCR Text	Show SHOOTS WIFE ANDESGAPES WEBSTER CITY, la., May 9. Escaping Es-caping Sheriff William Meeklngs and his posse into Iowa Falls, thirty-five miles east of here, by fiftoen minutes, min-utes, Harvey Beasley, charged with the deliberate and cold-blooded murder of his wife and two small boys in this city this morning, is still at large. A police net has been thrown out fifty miles in every direction and his capture is Momentarily expected. With a thirty-two calibre revolver Beasley deliberately Bhot his wife, and two omall sons, aged 2 and 5 years, killing them instantly. Tho bodies, still warm and lying in great pools of blood in the room where the tragedy occurred, were found shortly' after when Mrs. Beasley's sister-in-law, Mrs. E. F. Kooncc, returned home from church. Mrs. BoaBley, who had. not lived with her husband since last fall, made her home with the Koonce family.
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