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Show HUSBAND KILLS WIFE AND PRIEST ST. TAl'L, May 2f. P. J. Gibbons, a stove commission man of South Sr-Paul, Sr-Paul, today sho and killed his wife at their home In that city A fe' minute Inter Gibbons rang the door bell at the residence oi Father K. .'. Walsh, the voung pateir of St. An-guft An-guft 'tie's Roman Catholic church and hi the door wan opened tired two fh"l Into the priest's head, killing him nl-most, nl-most, distantly. At the Jail tonight Gibbon said th.it his wife made a confession tn which the name of Father Walsh as men tioned. For three days Gibbons has been an inmate of a drink cure sanitarium In Minneapolis. This morning Ills wife called at the sanitarium and Gibbons insisted on accompanying her to South St. Paul to attend to some business affairs. It Is said there has ben several estrangements between Glblwns aiil his wife and Father Walsh has eaeh time successfully intervened as peace maker. Gibbons ha lived In South Si. Paul for 2."i veins. For a long lime he vns hlcf police. About ten years ago he went Into the c otnm! -it-Ion business, in w hlclt he Is sold to have Ik en siiccessfu'. About 20 vears ano h- married Nelll'-' McGown ami seven children were born to them. O.' the scores of Soma St. Paul people who dl.cusseJ th -tragedy tonight not one breathed j I word against Mrs. Gibbons' character. , "She w :is a mo !e wife and moth-r. a good and devout woman." was t!: ' substance of whit they Mid. |