Show WITS dalice DANCE TO KILL MAN WITH WIPE WIFE AT HOME slayer then returns and tells merrymakers Merry makers mahers what he has done watertown N Y taking time oil off from calling country square d dances d aces howard bishop three old hammond farmer slipped home unexpectedly found ills his wife in the arms of A neighbor lie ho says and killed lital lilia with a doub lebarr elca shotgun ther the vl alcum 1 calm was merritt manning mauning fifty married and the father of two children bishops shops eight children slept upstairs as agthe the killing was done below bishop suddenly left the home of earl hunter on tho the hammond road at 1130 at night lie he asked a arlend alend to do the calling until he be returned 1 I have just killed merritt manning lie he announced to the assembled dancers as lie he resumed hla his position near the fiddlers fidd lers take it for a joke every one laughed it seemed a good joke certainly no one appeared to take bishop seriously even mannings wife and two children enjoying themselves hugely in the square dances were unimpressed then after the dance had contin Z S 1 I have just killed merritt manning aeo a few minutes bishops serious manner worried friends if you dont believe me bishop calmly said come back with me I 1 found him film nt at my home with my alf and killed him bishop hurried ahead when tha dancers arrived they found bishop standing grimly shotgun in hand at the corner comer of a fence in trout of the house lifes lies in there bishop said inside they found manning on the kitchen floor a gaping hole showing where the shot had found their mark sirs mrs bishop hysterically waited in id a chair nearby S says ays hes glad of it bishop was arrested by state troop ers era when he walked down the highway toward the village to give himself up As troopers drove by lie he hulled hailed them smiled and said im the man you want I 1 came to give myself up N mrs manning told authorities that I 1 mrs bishop had Yam vamped ped her husband seven saven years 1 I went there many times and warned her to keep away from my roan man she said but always she laughed at me mrs bishop told me just a little while ago ive got your husband just where I 1 want him and I 1 nm am going to keep him film 11 bishop told the district attorney ho he had killed IIan manning Dlag and added im d n glad of it ILI |