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Show FAMLY IS If i OUT Tragedy in Chicago in Which Four Lives Are Ended Chicago. Aug. 11. W". J. Myers, the, keeper of a shooting Rallerj'. used his skill with a revolver with tragic purpose pur-pose today, shooting three inembera of his household through the head and then taking his own life. Just four hots were fired and four lives were b miffed out by Myers' unerring un-erring aim. The dead: W". J. .Myers, aged JO. Mrs. Grace Myers, aged 2., his wife, Ralph Myers, aged 7, their son. F. S. Bouton. aged 55, father of Mrs. Myers. Policeman Dennis O'Ncil -was passing pass-ing the Myers home when he heard (he first three shots In rapid succession. succes-sion. Breaking Into the apartment he lound the dead where they had fallen. A revolver with four chambers empty lay beside the body of Myers. Death in each case ipparently had been instantaneous. in-stantaneous. Myers and his wife quarreled recently re-cently and she had him placed undr bond t krn the ,peac There are no living witnesses to the trageJy. |