The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-04

and his rage cused him 90 cast aside
all prudence when he saw the young
IN intwine his arm, about the waist
Of the woman.
When within five feet of the couple
Turner fired two shots into his wife's
back and one into her head.
He then fired shot into her COM
panion and he sank to the ground
unconscious.
The shots frightened the guests ,at
the entertainement and they hastened
into the grove. Turner stood close to
the fallen forms Of tho woman ana
the manA
hm over here all of you," he
az. Dramatically to the men and
.ol.--s 1ca q -red out Of the church.
have done" 1etr J M 'S'
The crowd gatheI about Turner.
who explained he had killed his wife
and her admirer.
Dragging the mans form to near
by lamp post he turned it face up
ward. The light shone full on the
face, and Turner, with an angulshed
groan, exclaimed:
What! Oh, God, I've shot my boy
Glenn!"
The father thereupon tried to COM
NIT suicide by firing bullet into his
brain.
The hand in which he held the pis-
tol trembfed SO violently that the
bullet merely grazed his scalp, and
as the pistol was empty he threw 1t
away and called on those presen to
arrest him and get him to jail quick
~.
The remorse of the man was pitiful.
He told the jailors he didn't want to
live, and that it was his intention to
kill himself at the first opportunity.
He sought to die by starvation at
first, but the method was TOO slow and
painful, so he finally took food.
Turner slept little, and he became
almost nervous wreck. He spent
many hours seated on the edge of his
cot, his face buried in his hands and
moaning pitifully.
Mrs. Turner had died before medi-
cal assistance could be reached, but
the boy recovered.
When he left the hospital he went
to the jail and tried to comfort his
father, but his words failed to cheer
the farmer.
Turner begged to be tried at once.
II want to die as quickly as pos
sible," he said. II want to follow
the wife whom l killed. Not until it
was too late did / realize my sus-
picious of her were unrounded."
The prisoner evidently got tried of
waiting to be called before jury.
In the past week he had talked in
coherently many times, ana the Jailers
feared he had become insane.
Turner pretended he was asleep
when the guard passed his cell at 9
o'clock last night. AS soon as the
footsteps of the guard died out the
prisoner a1pse from his cot AMI TAX
ing q. sheet, he tore it into long rib
bona, ..
These IL IL fastened together with
knots and then tied one end of the
improvised rope to the top Of bar
and the other about his neck. Then
he sat on the floor and strang1ed to
death.
Turner's insane jealously of his wife
had caused her to leave him several
times. She was about twenty-five years
younger than her husband, and he ap-
peared to become jealous of every
man to whom she spoke. His many
violent outbursts caused the wife to
leave him but on his plea that he
would curb his jealousy in the future
she returned to him. -
There had been . quarrel between
the couple several months before the
shooting, and they were separated.
Turner threatened to kill his wife,
and two weeks before he carried out
his threat he flourished revolver
at her In the street. He said he.would
kill her If she did not return to him,
but Mrs. Turner took the weapon from
her husband and told him that she
would not return to his home until he
convinced her by his conduct that he
had gotten over his Jealous rage.