Show CUT HER THROAT I 1 john john family in ic ci cities fles 4 1 HOPIS HOUS HIS WIFE WILL DIE AndT and hUB us give the boys a 6 chance to cwg bap to a tree about eleven am to today dat john melvin 11 who resides on the beuch while engaged iu in au altercation with bu his wife wit e became to 0 o enraged enrage U he attempted to put an end to her existence exit coce by b culling cutting her er throat t roat with a razor fortunately for foi the lady the cut was dot not deep enough cough to aeter the auguar but waa af leuah ucb an extent that it five or lix six switches notches to sew up the wound the enraged maa man would probably have com completed pItted hit his hel hil lish doi gnout and out had lad biot bis his wife wite made hr ber escape and slid rao rem to a neighbor for rv a assistance ai As BOOD soon as a she bad had got awaul melvio locked d himself up in the house and declared that bo he would not let ofaf one io in wilbour killing him blat int As son as marshal Mart ballantine who bad had been tent sent for arrived be went to the door and add demanded admittance the dour door was opened and be he went in and grabbing the fellow by abb hands told mt J Juliu ulius keisel who wa was with him to feel in bie his pockets and eee see what weapons aj be bad had on him he did ed n ito and J found a razor covered with ba bod 0 nd in in one of his hi coat poc pockets keti elvin wa wai taken to jibe the city jet jail J 1 I where lh the reporter visited him and allied aak ed him what hie his motive was in corn com alting such an act airl melvin via re ye ivied just to give any reasone reas one or to haye baye any thine thing to say ay about it say ay ing that he did not wish the re porters to get bold hold of it t but remarked to t 0 th he mars the court might take him to morrow and tear him into twenty pieces an and d be he would not lid riner the only thing he be regretted was waa that he did not finish the job he haq had commenced he then asked if iftode tae cut was serious and being informed tb that at it w was A 9 be he laughed bi heartily and exclaimed 1 ibish I she he die and ad the boje boys could have iii an opportunity of hanging me up to ome some tree the marchal said you cannot think much of your wife to wish she hab would die melvin 11 elvin replied that be hal loye her dearly and thai that be could love her and kill her at the ame same time it appears that he charges bis his wife with tome some very serious offense fene of the nature of which cannot be as melvin is a native of scotland and ind hay hav been in this country save ev eral dral years since the above was in it i t has been learned from dr driver who attended the lady thai that the ash in her neck was about six six inches long extending exten dih g from rom the I 1 neck to the th windpipe and so deep that it struck the back bone it is thought hovY however ever that the she will recover boier after endeavor endeavoring tin to sever bis his head from her body helvin melvin attempted to decapitate the cat |