The Detroit times., 1908-07-21
SHOOTS HIS WIFE.
FROM AMBUSH;
KILLS SELF
FORMER GRAND RAPIDS FARMER
WOUNDS ONE OF PURsuERs-
TRAGEDY ELIMINATION or uN.
HAPPY MARRIED LIFE.

MONHOE, Mich, July 2l.-Pursued
by farmers after he had shot and
killed his wife who had started d.
vorce proceedings against him, VIM.
A. Fox. aged So. OF near Trilby, Bed
ford township, turned his revolver
upon his would-be captors, woundfylg
one and then fed to a churchyard.
where he ended his own life by q bull
let
John Heath, the wounded man at
whose home Mrs Fox had been stay
Ing with her children. as a boarder.
owes his life 10 suspender clasp
which turned aside the bullet. "a
deep furrow, however, was ploughnd
In his breast by the charge. ~
The dual tragedy. which was the
outcome OF 10 years OF unhappy MIR
ried life. took place about 3 O'Clock
last night
Fox recently had moved to Bedford
township from near Grand Rapids,
where the couple formerly lived, SO
that he could be near his children.
About March IL last, Mrs. Olivia
Fox, saying she could no longer sub
init TO her husbands brutality, gatner-
ed her children and in the night fed
from her farm home. Where she went
the husband did not know until he
learned that she had begun divorce
proceedings in the circuit court at
Monroe.
Fox then left Grand Rapids and,
seeking his wife, he found her ON the
| farm owned by John Saxton, tenanted
by John Heath. near Trilby.
Dispute Over Children.
Il don't care II you get divorce
he told her one day, but don't want
| you to have Ross. | want Ross. He's
my boy"
The wife, in her bill for divorce,
| had asked for the custody OF four of
the five children. STIMULATING that
Rosalie should remain with her father.
| Several conferences were held, the
last one on the morning of the tragedy.
at the Office OF Prosecuting Atty. Kiley
In this city. Atty. Kiley had been re-
tanned by Mrs. Fox.
| The couple left my Office appar-
emily satisfied with the agreement,
said the prosecuting attorney tonight.
why the husband should have killed
the wife, | cannot say"
Fox preceded his wife to the Heath
farm house. Mrs. Fox, accompanied
by Mrs. Heath, went tom Monroe TO
Toledo on the Short Line and then
from Toledo to Trilby on the Toledo
a Western inter-urban. From Trilby
they drove home.
Ambushes His wife.
Fox. apparently almost insane. am
pushed the couple. AS the wife was
about to leave the carriage the hus-
band fired. The bullet found a vital
spot In her throat. She was rendered
speeches., almost Immediately lost
consciousness and died in a short
time
John Heath was near at hand when
the shot was fired. He started after
Fox and nearly overlook him.
stop" yelled Fox, but Heath
maintained his speed and then Fox
fired. The bullet struck Heath's sus-
pender, glanced off clasp and infict-
ed deep cash across mis- breast.
Bleeding profusely from the wound.
Heath returned to his house. Neigh
bors In the meanwhile lad notified
the officers OF the murder.
Stumble over Body.
Sheriff Briggs and a posse started
al onoe for the Heath fam. Before
they let here, however. nunIoer OF
farmers had given chase. Fox ran TO
tas Rllner churchyard and there Sc
crcting hims elf in the dense shadows
ared lis third shot. The bullet IN
bedded itself in his brain. IL was
here that his pursuers found the body.
one man stumbling over II as he was
beating about.
The sheriff did not learn that Fox
had killed himself until he reached
the home OF John Heath.
The bodies OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fox
were taken to the Heath home.
Mrs Fox, in her divorce papers.
drawn up July 3, charged her hus-
band had repeatedly beaten her and
otherwise mistreated her,
Fox had bought his revolver In To-
ledo. recently and is believed TO have
been plotting murder for some time.
Coroner Nadeau will impanel jury
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