The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-03

childish voice calling, Papa. get up,
wake up, papa" and at his wife's soil
citation, Mr.. Mckinney hurried over to
the house and found the door locked.
He ran across the street and called
Charles Rasband, and together they
ran back to the Van Guilder house, just
as DIR. Joseph Milliron drove UP to
make his regular call on his typhoid
patient, Van Guilder. The three tried
the. door and called, Whats the mat
ter! To this query Ralph answered,
Papa's shot me" and staggered over
and unlocked the door, He was COW
cred with blood and very dazed, yet
never faltered when called by the doc
tor. DIR. Milliron rushed into the room,
and noting the terrible situation,
Wrencned the pistol from the dying
mans hand. He learned from the boy
that Van Guilder had given the chill
dren some pills, then shot them.
The police were notified by telephone,
and while DR.. Milliron was preparing
some bandages the patrol wagon sped
to the scene with Detective Sheets and
Sergeant Janney. who left word to have
the doctor follow. 1t was but few
minutes before DR.. ]. S. Witcher
reached the house in Assistant Fire
Chief McCarthy's buggy. Meanwhile
the mother had returned home and
was apprised of the tragedy While
she wept bitterly the dying father and
wounded son We're taken in the patrol
wagon to the hospital.
Boys Wounds.
DR. Witcher turned his attention to
the boy when he saw there was no
chance for Van Guilder's recovery. The
bullet had entered the top of the head
and lodged with part in the brain mat
ter, and part in the skull bone, the
only thing that saved the child from
instant death being that the bone
prevented the ball from going clear
into the membrane. 1t was extracted,
but left the bone pressing on the brain,
and it will have to be raised today If
the pressure is relieved and the opera
ton successfully performed, it will be
but a few days before Ralph RECEIVERS
his usual health. He had a bruise on
his forehead, evidently received when
he fell down.
The ball that pierced little Lola's
brain passed entirely through the
head, coming out at the base of the
skull She did not regain conscious
ness. Her temple was powder burned.
Van Guilder'ss self<infiicted wound
chopped his brain into pieces, entering
the forehead between the eyes, and
lodging against the skull in the rear.
To have survived it would have been
impossible.
Drs Root and Monahan will assist
DR.. Witcher in the surgical work to-
day.
Harmony In the Family.
There were rumors among the neigh
bors yesterday that Mrs. Van Guilder
had neglected her husband in his ill
ness, but other circumstances indicate
that nothing but harmony and devotion
has existed in the family. In fact, Mrs.
Van Guilder was doing his bidding
when the fearful tragedy occurred. Be
tween evidences of her emotion, the
mother talked with a reporter soon
after the event transpired. She said
that her husband had been in bed two
or three days, but was much run down
before he gave way.
He was not deliriouS when 1 left
home" she said. He asked me if /
would go to Buffers meat market and
get some beef and make him some
beef tea. He had some yesterday and
relished it. l went UP on the car, and
don't think L was gone but an hour.
My Cod cried Mrs. Van Guilder,
unable to maintain herself, why didn't
someone warn me? Why did l leave
home? Oh, Austin, what have you
done?''
AT times Mrs. Van Guilder's emotions
would lead her to speak disparagingly
of her husband, but again she seemed
to lose sight of his blame for the scene
before her.