The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-30
SHOT DAUGHTER
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WITH SUICIDE /:
49, &, =. 80 -!
Crippled wife Escaped Death
Because She Dropped
When Shot at
HORRIBLE BUTCHERY. Of NAN
DEsPoHDtNT over MONEY Loss

. er After Realizing That He Had
a KILLED His Child-wife Crawled a
,ng Distance for Help.
N nond, Va, Sept. 30.-Despond-
ehsA use Of financial reverses, over
VIII had brooded for many sleep
lessS ;-1Cs, w. B. Grover, q farmer
OF Chesterfield county, attempted this
morning to exterminate his family. He
succeeded In killing his 20-year-old
daughter. Louise. shot at his wife
with tho same weapon that had ended
the girls life, and then sent a bullet
into his own brain. Father and daugh-
ter died together.
1t was between !, and o'clock this
morning when Grover, awakened from
q troubled sleep by the rumbling Of q
passing trolley car, determined to end
his troubles. Dressing and taking his
revolver. he told his wife that he was
going out into the yard. Reading his
purpose In his eyes. Mrs Grover, who
is cripple. crawled painfully from
her bed and started after him. He
ordered her back to bed, telling her,
at, last he intended killing himself.
Louise Grover. hearing their voices,
descended from her bedroom on. the
foor- above and entered the room oc-
cupfed by her parents. Seeing then
that he would not be allowed to carry
out his suicidal Intentions, Grover de-
termined to kill them both first. He
fired at his daughter when she turned
away from him at the Threshold OF
his bedroom door.
Thought Wife Dead, Too.
When she fell, dying, he made q
vain attempt upon the life Of his wife,
trying to shoot her first in their bed
room. She seized his pistol, which
broke in the scu6ls,, The woman
aSd int. the hall and tall upon her
knees, pleading Tor her life @ He shot
at her there. and, d,.fhtnkin9s5shasR
deahi the man went back into his
bedroom and killed himself, his body
falling close to that of his daughter.
Mrs. Grover. crawled out to the yard
and screamed for help. There were
no neighbors within sound of her
voice. but an answering cry came
from Lewis Preston, negro, who.
with his dogs was 'possum hunting in
the nefghborhood. Mrs. Grover saw
the light he carried. and redoubled
her cries until he came to her. She
told him that her husband had killed
her daughter and himself and begged
him to go for help. ~
Preston ran to the home of w. p.
shonway. three-quarters of mile
distance, and aroused the family. He
said that something awful" had hap
pened at the home of the Growers, but
the Shonways doubted his incoherent
story and sent him further on his
way. =
Hobbled Far to Neighbor's.
Mrs. Grover, too. frightened to stay
longer in her desolate home, with only
thin skirt over her nightdress, with
out shoes, and without covering for
her shoulders, started alone for help.
Suffering with q dislocated hip, whicn
had made, her an invalid for many
months. and without even the assist
ance OF her crutch, she made her way
across lonely fields. She managed to
reach the home Of the Shonways. fall
ing In q collapse across their doorway.
Sobbing hysterically. she told what
had happened.
In the meantime Preston had gone
to the home of w. M. Willis, whom he
aroused with the. story of the TRACE
dy.% The men Of both households at
once started for the scene, carriage
being placed at the disposal Of Mrs.
Grover.
It was plain that both father and
daughter had died instantly. "A COR
oner held an inquest, Mrs. Grover be:
ing the only witness. Father and
daughter will; be buried side by side.
Mra. Grover In her story of the
tragedy at the inquest said that he
cried out: ....5..9 .sN
"My God. i. have. killed my child.
Well, we'll. all 60 together"
Her Struggle for Life.
He placed the, muzzle Of the revol-
YER against, his wife's head. Mrs.
Grover struggled with him. Once she
broke away, but ha caught her. They
fought. about the room until Grover
managed to. get the revolver against
her head. She knocked the weapon
up with her forearm and the revolver
"broke. !" He had to release her to put
It together, and, she a fled from the
toom.; He caught her again in the
hallway. She grovelled at his feet,
but he stood over her. and. repeating
that they must all go together,
pulled the trigger. The ball went over
her head. but she fell backward. and
he thought he had finished her His
wife heard him 20 back into. the bedl
room and heard the report that fol-
lowed. ,... 81, K
The Grover family: came to Virginia
eight or ten years Ago, settling near
Dutch Gap. in sHenrico county. Four
years ago. they removed to Chester.
.field. y Chester ID said to have been
successful m business until year
or more ago when he began to- lose
money. His wsfe tried to cheer him.
but - was unable to comfort hlm.'