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Show MURDER AND SUICIDE AT HELPER YOUNG MAN SLASHES A GIRL'S THROAT WITH A RAZOR. Then Cuts His Own Throat With Fatal Results Jealousy Cause of the Tragedy. Passengers arriving from the east over the Rio Grande road this afternoon after-noon report a vicious attempt at murder, mur-der, followed by a deliberate suicide, at Helper, a freight division point 100 miles from Ogden, on the Gould road. Tho crime Is alleged to have occurred last night, when an attractive waiter girl, known as Lena, employed at the Helper depot lunch counter, was assaulted as-saulted by her jealous lover, Jas. Mc-Cleary, Mc-Cleary, w-ho 6lashed the girl's throat with a razor. Although badly Injured, the waitress managed to tear herself free from the man's embrace and thus escaped death. The Insanely jealous lover then deliberately de-liberately cut his own throat and died a few minutes later In tho lunch room. It is said the girl was followed from Denver by her lover, who charged her with inconstancy and, during a brief Interview, made the attempt to murder mur-der her. Although badly Injured and in a critical condition from the loss of blood, the girl will recover. The remains of McCIeary were taken ta-ken in charge by the authorities who are investigating the crime. |