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Show CHOPS OFF HEADS OF WIFE 111 SON I SPENDS LAST EIGHTY CENTS FOR HATCHET Patric Tierney, 24, Says He Was Destitute and Jealous of Wife CONFESSES TO POLICE Unable to Beg Money With, Which to Get Poison for Suicide . .' CHICAGO, III.. Jan. 23 Patrick Tierney 24, walked into a police station sta-tion here early todav and confessed according to the police that he had decapitated his wife and baM a they; lav sleeping Sunday morning He w.-.s destitute and Jealous he told the po-: lice, and could not find employment and for these reasons had committed, 'he crime. SLAVKR R FCO( ; M Z KI A short tirfle Tfore Tlefney's" X) i est the police had obtained his description. descrip-tion. The police sergeant had Just Bent, out a meSSagS to arrest hlin when he staggered In out of the cold and warmed warm-ed his hands at a radiator in tho hall-wa hall-wa He walked Into the station and asked for lodging for the night The pnlire sergean' glanced up at the man and then snld "Whj you're Patrick Tierney, aren't you?" Confesses m faints "Tees that's me," Tierney replied, the police sergeant said '.'I killed my wife and baby. Please: kill me." Thn he collapsed Speaking without apparent emotion. Tierney told of meeting his wife when he was an army chemist at the Presidio, Pre-sidio, San Francisco, during the war. Objection to their marriage, he said.' caused them to move to Chicago i '.lure they lived well enough until hei losl his Job. For two days, he said, he had had no food. With his last eighty cents he purchased hatchet l T DED si ICIDE After killing his wife and baby. he said, he wandered about the streets j beRg-Ing mone intending to pur. base poison with which to end his life. Falling in this, he gave himself up j Tierney said his father was a Lieutenant Lieuten-ant of Police in New York and a brother was a police sergeant there |