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Show FATHER TRIES TO SHIELD DAUGHTER ST LOUIS, April 7. Mlar Maud : Ritchie, 18, a telephone operator, today ShOI her lather, George A. Ritchie, Rit-chie, a butcher, whom she asserted was abusing her mother Ritchie was taken to the city hospital Where his condition was pronounced serious. He suffered two bullet wounds in tho left side. Hearing the shots p. dice entered the home and found Ritchie on a bd "1 shot myself. Kit, hie was .pioied as saying. "1 have been sick, ' Several blocks from the home how-ever, how-ever, police found the girl Aith a revolver and sh- readily admitted ring the shots, the polios naitt. |