Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-12
TALK ENDS
IN TRAGEDY
WIFE's coouETRY THE CAUSE
OF DEATHS
HICKS, sPURNED BY NEIGHBoRs,
COMMITS DEED
Had Closed His Eyes to What
Others Knew Only
Too Well

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| PARIS, ILL.,, Sept. 11-Vincent Hicks
killed his wife, Gertrude, and himself TO
prove to his neighbors that he was not
Indifferent to the womans waywardness.
| Hicks had long endured in silence the
wi.lful conduct of his wife He mad
never unburdened his mind to anybody
/ nor sought the sympathy of anybody.
He thought 1t was his own affair. Ana
he thought his neighbors would UNDER
stand.
When he was startled into reallza-
| ton that they misjudged his temperance
| he killed the woman with penknife ana
then took his own life with the same
MILE, l,,
me Ielusal Oh MS neishpvls ~ nSp
nm WIN ms tnresn,hs was WA, "a. ,s,a
.ne NC ~ - tts
1919 49, ..a,, peoause y, na',.r ~,
ioine Mi.ich ne seeneu ~ sanI. -. 'Ae'
S0"'u n.y. eoi"e oNei anu MP Ni
Lost Neiohbors' Confidence
Tb. loss of his neiehbor's confidence. in
him affected him as he had NOT been
AFFECTED nv the 1oes of his own confidence
IN his wife If made him capable of
Shaving the woman and himself
Vincent Hicks wae a vo,Inp farmer of
good narts and was bieblv Thought of by
all his neiehbors until his seeming disre-
gard of his wife,s behavior impaired their
regard He was of good family. in
dustrious sober and denendable When
he was barely of age he married.
His wifi. three wears Younger than he
was onnosite She had a nrettv face and
an attractive form. she was yivacious.
fond of dress and disnIav and suscentible
IA fatterv
Hicks took bis brid. to farm in the
naighhorbood uhara tha,, n.d hoth hson
raised ..ieht miles nortbeast IF PARIS
He worka6 hord nd nod M thone,ht fo-
anvthine hevond The dnll routine oe fary,
ufo
WIZ. I Had c.ve+v
1I;s n,,,a,s to,,,,arar, did NM. ,a,,,,t
~ . ILL., ooroniaoaot adt,,str,ant - tha
brn'dr,,r, uha ltd $500, wv, eu.,, 49,
thara ,,ras .o,,,,,hara 20 ~ sh 49, ~,
Ala ,,ot oara - GO ~ BE- 80 - erst
- r,iease W. e. he ,o,,..d w. ~ NJ
' ~ $780, ~ 49,, rs as
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~ nor,y,iair "a any '-''e "Ae
-. $4,000 ,,.
80 ~ pa ui'ios De'aine
WISE WISE me haiile VI ,he Souns wile was
~ a' W.T. 'nose VI eiIa,n
~ .h 49, .ne p one "oiiian iei'
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a.I ' tre CIV ho nv
s snn eda h,s ne ea9 - ne saw , ~ ne
49,, ~ If ~ s1ffaraa h 80 oba..
49, 49, - 49, SNAANANN' AAS 40 i'OpONy
His handson,a hut r,.xnrass;,,. faoa
refect,ne an min ein stiv.. tenonera m a,,t
gave no hint OF the real state of his
'''-iiu
ConternPt insteao OF f'y
Finally, though, there could no longer
be doubt that Hicks knew what was go
ing on. Ihen the CONVICTION took form
tnat ne condoneo MS wires frlvoity.
contempt TOOK the place OF pity.
When threshlng time came ne went out
among ms neighpors ana asked them 10
help him' as ne Wouio nelp tnem
They told him that respect for their
wives and daughters restrained them
Besides, they would not want 1t to APP
pear tnat they joined In MS sanction OF
things that were the scandal OF the COM
munlty.
Hicks did not defend his wife and he
did not defend himself. He compressed
his lips and there was look on his face
that all OF his wife's actions had not put
there.
He turned slowly away and went home
And his neighbors, as they looked after
him, remembered how much they had
thought of him and were sorry for him
again.
He reproached his wife bitterly for the
degraded place he had come to occupy
in the minds of his neighbors. II can't
see how | am to blame for that" she