Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-26
HOLIDAYS DARK SIDE
Long List of Crimes BIacken
Christmas Day.
DEATH GRINS AT FEAST
Husbands Stay Wives and Children
at Dinner Table.
MANY TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES
Poverty, Dependency, Jealousy and
Drink Drive Scores to Do
Desperate Deeds.

Iidi Nii !SIIlletS Ids llS Udi n sue do WC'i
as its joys is sadly proved by the stories
of tragedies and crimes occurring in all
parts of the country. and with which the
wires today are blackly burdened. Hus-
bands Staying their wives, wives their
husbands, and mothers and fathers their
children are included in the following
gruesome list of violent deeds committed
on the day of all days. when peace and
good will. joy and merriment are supposed
to rule the world
NEW BRUNSWICK, \. J.. December
ga Christmas tragedy. with startling
dramatic features, was enacted in New
Brunswick when George r. Holman.
stantly killed his young wife, and then
handed his smoking pistol to his father.
who had burst into the room. and begged
the latter to Stay him at once.
The dumfounded father hesitated an
instant. whereat the son sped from the
house and has not since been seen.
At dinner the couple quarreled. and the
wife insisted on returning to her parents
She left the dinner table and vent up
stairs. and soon afterward young Holman
followed. A few minutes later the elder
Holman heard a scream and the sound of
some one falling. He ran upstairs. AS
he stepped over the threshold of the door
he saw his son standing over the dead
body of his wife, with his pistol pointed
at his head
Stop cried the father, springing
toward the son. The latter turned, low
cred his weapon and with bowed head
extended it toward his father.
You shoot me. for Gods sake" he
cried.
Terror-stricsen al the alternative pre-
scented to him. the father, stood an in
slant irresoiute. The son. apparently
o'erswept by a revulsion of feeling, then
sprang from the room with a despairing
cry. Stopping not even for a moment to
see the two children whom he had rem
dered motherless and of whom he had
been extremely fond, he vanished from
the house.
No Money for His Children.
QUITMAN. Ga. December 26.-Because
he did not have money enough 20 provide
the usual Christmas toys for his children,
C. A. casters. a farmer near here. de-
liberately planned his own death yester-
day morning and died as he had planned.
Leaving the home where the children
were he walked short distance away,
fitted his shotgun over a forked stick
pressed his breast against the muZzle and
pushed the trigger with stick His wife
and several small children ran out at the
sound of the shot and found the husband
and father dead.
CHICAGO. December 26.-At the hour
which he had appointed to eat Christmas
dinner with his wife Sydney Linden Rob-
erts visited Ella Noreen. and after shoot
ing her twice turned his revolver upon
himself and inflicted what probably viii
prove mortal wound. The girl possibly
will recover.
The shooting was the elimination of an
acquaintance which began last June.
Although living with his wife, Roberts
insisted that Miss Noreen had agreed to
marry him. and her refusal to do so was
assigned by him az the cause of the
shooting.
LINCOLN. Neb., December 26.-Herman
Wiedburg. hackdriver. thirty-five years
old. last night killed his son. Sidney. nine
years Cd. and then shot himself, dying al
most instantly.
Wiedburg had for some time been in
poor health. Brooding over his own all
ment and that of the boy. who was a Grip
pie, it is supposed, prompted the act.
Infant Killed at Parents Fight.
PHILADELPHIA. December 26-Alfred
Turner. aged ten weeks, was killed in
peculiar manner in a fight between his
parents here.
William Turner, the father according to
the report made to the police attacked
his wife because she did not have break
fast ready when he came downs airs. Mrs.
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the fight she dropped it to the floor. She
was subsequently knocked down or fell
upon the infant. crushing it to death.
Both parents were arrested.
HARTFORD. Conn.,. December %
Samuel Rodinsky was shot down and ia
tally wounded on the doorsteps of his
home early today. and the assailant es-
capped. On the ground near RodinskY's
body were found black mask. a black
cap and a blackjack. Two shots were
fired at Rodinsky, one bullet through the
eft temple being fatal.
The victim kept a dry goods store and
a saloon in the same neighborhood. The
police have a theory that a man fol owed
him from the store after he had closed up
shortly after midnight. believing he would
have in his pockets the receipts of the day
from both places of business.
FORT SMITH, Ark. December 26-
One negro was killed and two others
fatally wounded yesterday during a fight
negro excursion train on the ST.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern rail
way between this city and Cherokee
Junction, Okla. -Four other negroes who
plunged through the car windows to es-
cape the bullets. cannot be accounted for.
Trainmen finally overpowcred some of the
disturbers, and they were lodged in jail at
Sallisaw.
Killed His Fellow Boarder.
BUFFALO. n. Y, December 26.-Harry
Carr of Syracuse, mechinist for type
writer company, was shot and instantly
killed in boarding house on Morgan
street early today. The shooting it is
alleged, done by Lytton Cordery a
fellow boarder, who came home shortly
after midnight and raised disturbance.
Carr with several others. put Cordery
in his room There. seized with the idea
that he was being robbed, Corde"y it is
alleged. fired a shot over his shoulder.
the bullet piercing Cars heart After
lie shooting Cordery lapsed into a stupor.
Cordery was bookke per for thu
Goodyear Lumber Company and has
always borne an excellent reputation.
The police think from his unusual actions
and the stupor into which he sank that he
may have been affected by drugged liquor.
HOPKINSV1LLE, Ky. December %
Five negroes were MORALLY wounded in
general pistol fight in the southern part
n,