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Show I FARMER KILLS FAMILY WITH AX I CHOPS WIFE, I DAUGHTER AND SON TO DEATH I Then Tries to Hang Himself E' , But Efforts Are I Unsuccessful Bf, WORRIED BY DEBTS K 'Slayer Tells Sheriff He 1 Killed Three As They K": Slept R CHARLESTON. 111.. Jan. 16. (By V The Associated Press.) B F. Mon- jBL'. ronoy. a farmer, surrendered to Sheriff Vincent Aye today and told BiT . him he had killed his wife and son K5' and daughter, with an axe In an ef- Bc-; fort to exterminate his entire family B tiocauso of financial worries. He took Cut the sheriff and his deputies to tho 8b'! Monroney home and showed them the Jgt " I bodies. "1 killed them while they slept" Monroney said. "I killed my boy first, then my wife and then my daughter They did not know any- mk thing about it. Then I wont to the H barn and tried to hang myself with this window cord, but the- knot wasn't big enough and It wouldn't stick, so B I went to hunt you." Monroney wn locked up. " |