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Show MYSTEKIOUS Old Han and Young Husband Found Dead, Weapons Lying Near by Portland, Ore.. March 8. A mysterious myste-rious tragedy was 'revealed today when Mrs. Oscar T. Hlett, during a search for hor young husband, who had been absent from home all night, visited a shooting preserve on Colum-1 Colum-1 bla slough and there found the bodies ! of her husband and an old man named John Dale. A bullet from a rifle had shattered tho side of Hiett's head and deep wounds iQ the head from an axe, disclosed the cause, of Dale's death. Both men were lying on the ground near an old cabin and between them lay the axe and rifle, the weapons used in the slaughter. Whether tho old man shot tho younger and was then beaten with tho axe by Hiett, until tho latter dropped dead from loss of blood, or a third man was the nmrderer, may never be known. The former theory Is held by the police. Tho old man and Hlett, who was just entering his twenties, had lived togother for a long time. After the younger man married the old man became apparently Jealous of the boy's wife and they quarrelled. It is alleged Dale offered Hlett many Inducements to leavo the young woman and told him that if anything happened to him whllo on the reserve, they would go to Hlett for an explanation. He said ho would do something that she would be sorry for, . |