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Show Cleveland's Sunday Sensation. Cleveland, January 31. Alfred Smith, j sailor, murdered his wife and her compan- 1 ion, Louisa Jane . Wilson, some time last night, and then attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Mrs. Smith is a clairvoyant, and for two years occupied rooms in the Crocker block, on Superior street. She and her husband came from Oswego City, where they were born and reared. She was 35 years old, and quite a good-looking woman. The pair had two children, a girl 16 years old, and a boy of 10. Smith has been a worthless fellow, fel-low, and has compelled his wife to support him. Lately he has been very brutal, and his wife on Friday applied for a divorce. Last night, or early this morning, he entered en-tered the room and killed the women by beating them over the head with a carpenter's carpen-ter's hammer. |