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Show WEALTHY IDAHO RANCHER SLAYS WOMAN AND SELF Double Tragedy the Result of Infat- uation for Woman Who Refused to Receive His Attentions. Twin Fails. Idaho. James Nichols, a prominent and wealthy rancher residing re-siding near 1-Vku, about fifteen miles north of Twin Falls. Saturday evening even-ing shot and instantly killed Mrs. L. Ii. Stockslager. wife of Dr. Stock-slager Stock-slager of Albion, then turned the revolver re-volver upon himself, dying from three wounds before the only person near by could reach the scene. The double tragedy, which was enacted en-acted in the road near the Nichols ranch, was apparently the result of a frenzied infatuation on the part of Nichols for Mrs. Stockslager and her refusal to receive his attentions. No living person witnessed the shooting, but the circumstantial evidence evi-dence and investigation shows that Mrs. Stockslager was returning alone from a visit to her sister, who lives about two miles distant. She met Nichols in the road. A man who v, as working near by, but not in plain sight, reports having heard the woman wo-man scream, "O, Jim!" He hunried in her direction, heard five shots In quick succession, and, reaching the road, found the man and woman dead. Frightened neighbor women gathered gath-ered near, but all were afraid to approach, ap-proach, and the bodies lay in the road for three and a half hours, until two men from Twin Falls who were taking tak-ing a binder to the Nichols farm, met a boy who told them a man and woman wo-man were dead in the road. |