Southern Illinois Journal

              THIRTY-EIGHTH XEAR.
FLORA, ILLINOIS. FRlt>AY, JULY 3,   1908
NUMBER 28
llpirner
KILLS WIFE.
Shoots Son and Turns Weapon oi- Himself,
Wcrc^ you   there?    Was    that 2
crowd?    Well   yes!    But  we had a
hot time anyway if we   didn't   get a Keen Kutter Cabinet.
are Alive
. The drawing opened at 2;30 P. M. as advertised. Five , Keen Kutter Cabinets were given away.   .
•^pjst Prize.   G.M.Tucker, Flora.Ill
2nd Prize. Elmer Kinnaman, Flora.Ill. 3rd Prize Wrti. Cambron, Clay City, IH 4th Prize. Vernous Borders- Flora, 111. 5th Prize.   H. V. Jessup,     .       Xenia, 111.
Come Again
We are going to open up a keg of nails July 4th and not put on the lid until every fire cracker in the house is sold. We will make good to you. The loudest fireworks in town
SON WILL RECOVER
S'^yer Olad Son Will Recover, but Har no Rc(relg for Killing Wife.
Buggies!   Buggies!
Last Saturday we gave away a $100 John Deere Buggy. We cannot do this everyday but we can sell them.
Don't Wai
*'Conne Early and Stay Late." Make my store your reposi¬ tory for lunch baskets.
Put in a chicken leg for Keen Kutter Bovv^man.
Put your horse in my barn lot and eat on my front porch. Everything goes to make   this
ever in Flora's History.
jDllni Turner, DU years old, h CItII War Tetaraa und wealthy farmer of- CUy City, shot tab wife to deatb (roiu am bnib, aerloaily wonDded hts IS year.old ton and atteiupted td commtt •otclde uear Saylor Spring', III., on Saturday nlgbt. Ue is nnder arrest and refnses lo partake of food, declarlu;; be wil starve biuiftelf to deatb.
Turner aud bis wife ba4 been separ¬ ated foar years. Sbe was 20 year, bis jnaior and he was Insanely jealon. of her. Tbe tragedy was caused by bis mlstakinK his own son for another man.
When be saw tbe youth, who is larg.- for bis age, join bit mother ontside a charcb where an entertainment was in progress, bit jealons frenzy ortrnias- tered him, and be opened Ure on tbe pair from hit ambnsli.
Aboat 0:!IO p. m. Hrs. Tomer stepped from the chnrch for a breath of air and at ths did so her son. Olenn, arrived' from tbe farm, wbere be waa working. He stepped forward to greet hit mother in tbe ahadow, a^d they stood coBverf log there a faw secondi. . Taroer, from his pesition In the am- bath of the grove, had a distinct look at 'his wife at tha left tbe church deor, bnt the face of bit soa was hidden aa tbe boy approached frOm tb* roadway.
H* saw oaly va|rn»ly the form of a mao aianding close to his wife, in earn¬ eil conversation, and all tbr jealunt ragO' within htm rose op and Srtd hia mind.
Drawing a 88-ealiber revolver, ba glided to within a few fe«t of the eonple and opeae 1 Hre oa tbeiu. Tbe first bni lat strook Mra. Tnrner ia tha back. Aa lb* atartad to ran aaolbar bnllett itmck hsr in tbe htad. She die 1 witbin nifteen minatta.
Then tb* weapon was tnrned on bt-r companion, and two more shota ran^ ont. One of tbe bnllette atmok tbs son ia the groin and b* fell nnconseiont be tide the bleedin;; form of bis motbar.
Th* shot* attracted th* merrymaker* in the chnrch, and the farmers hnrried ta th* seene. Tnriur was standing over tha'bodies of bis victlma. with tha ravol- v.-r lu bis hand. Ulen, tbe wonndrd son, had fallen faee npward. A* Tomer stooped down to look at tbe faee of iiie man whom he snspected to be his wife'x admirer, he recognized his son. With a cry of nngnish he straightened ap anil staggered back. Then, placing tie mnzzle ofthe revolver againsthls temple he pnlled ti.e tri?j:i-rHnd ilropyied ac-o p the body of his ton.
The boy'« injary, altboogh ."(r'nnr, ' not    rtKarded    aa    nece-rtHiilv    (h  i
Turner's wonnd is not a »erii>u> •¦!i.^ His band abook wbfii h- Hrt