OCR Text |
Show !11L?B! ff ! HIM Murderer Turned in a False Alarm and, as the Department Drove Up, Shot the Men at Close Range, Then Went Home and Beat His Wife and Child to Death San Diego, Cal . Aug. j After killing kill-ing three persons, including his wife and child, mortally wounding a fourth and seriously wounding a fifth, Bert S. Durham, a discharged employe of the local lire department, ended a manhunt man-hunt at 1 o'clock this morning by j shooting himself through the head. ; Durham, who had uecn hunted ro- j lentlessly for .purs, dodged his pursuers, pur-suers, leaving them without a clew, j boarded a car in the residence sec- j tion of the ci:y and rode quietly to the Plaza, in the center of the busl- I noss district, where he put a bullet j into bis brain, Me recovered con- , sciousness later, but the coroner says j be will die. Mis victims are: Donald F. Grant, engineer, engine company No. 3. San Diejjo fire depart- ) mcnt; shot dead. ! Mrs. Bert S. Durban, and child, beaten beat-en to death Pi-ter Sanipsell. captain hose com-pan com-pan No. 3, dying from bullet wound. Guy Ell.ott. driver hose company No. 3. has a chance to recover. Mrs Durham and her child were beaten' to death whii they lay a.Mcep in their room in a downtown lodging i house, the murderer using a steel bar. . The firemen were shot down as they i responded to a false alarm turned In I by the murderer shoruy after mid-1 night. ' Durham's motive In killing the tire-men tire-men was revenge for hjs diwharge i from company No. 3. niter repeated quarrels with his captain. That was some months apo. Why he killed his wire and child Is unknown, although Mrs. Durham bad feared for her life for eome time. |