The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-30

Richmond, Va. (SpeciaO. -- Des-
pondent because of financial reyerses,
over which he had brooded for many
sleepless nights. and probably tenn
porarily insane through the same
cause. w. B. Grover, a well-known
farmer of Chesterfield County, about
to be thwarted in his desire to put
an end to his own life by his wife and
daughter, attempted to exterminate
his entire family. succeeded in slay-
ing his 20-year-old daugter, Louise,
attempted to kill his wife, at whom
he fred point blank with the same
weapon that had ended the girls life,
and then sped a bullet into his own
brain.
The father and daughter died to-
gether upon the bedroom floor, leav-
ing the crippled wife and mother
alone In house of horrors.
1t was between one and two o'clock
A. M, when Grover, awakened from
troubled sleep by the rumbling of
passing trolley car, determined
upon suicide in order to end his own
troubles. Dressing and securing his
revolver, he told his wife that he
was going out into the yard. Read
ing his purpose In his eyes Mrs. Grow
er crawled painfully from her bed
and started TO accompany him. He
ordered her back to bed, telling her
finally that he intended to end 1t all.
Miss Grover, hearing the commo-
tion came from her bedroom on the
floor above and entered the room oc-
cupied by her parents. Seeing then
that he would not be allowed to
carry out his intentions regarding
himself Grover determined to usher
his entire family into eternity with
him.
She Pied In Vain.
He killed his daughter first, shoot.
ing her as she turned from him al
the threshold of his bedroom door
He then made vain attempt upon
the life of his wife, trying to shoot
her first in the room, when his pistol
became broken in the scuffle, and
again is the hall, when she fed
from him, after sharp struggle, and
while the woman upon her knees was
pleading vainly for her life.
Thinking that his wife was dead
the man went back into his bedroom
and fired a bullet into his own brain
his body falling at right angles tC
that of his daughter, their fee
touching, their blood mingling to
gether in a dark pool that spread faI
over the floor.
Out in the yard, to which she hat
crawled in her terror, and with not
human soul living within sound o
her voice, Mrs. Grover shrieked Il
her agony until an answering or,
came from Lewis Preston,
negro who, with his dogs, wa
possum hunting in the neighbor
hood. Mrs. Grover had seen the ligh
carried by the man. She redoublet
her cries until he came to ber, whel
she told him that her husband haC
killed her dauhter and himself anC
begged him TO go for assistance
Preston ran to the home of w.
Shonway, three-quarters of a mil
distant, aroused his family, whom h
told that something awful had hap
pened at the home of the Growers
but they doubted the mans story ant
sent him still further upon his way
Alone With The Dead.
III the AIS. NIONtI, w
frightened 10 stay longer in Ia
neighborhood of ner now desolate
home, with only thin skirt over he
night dress. without shoes and with
out covering for her shoulders, start
ed alone for help. Suffering with
dislocatej hip, which had made he
an invalid for many months, an
without even the assistance of he
crutch, the woman made her wa
painfully across lonely fields, he
fear of the night being as nothing I
the dread of what she had left benin
her. She managed to crawl someho'
the intervening distance 10 the HON
of the Shonways, falling In collaps
across their doorway
Sobbing Historically, she manage
TO tell what had occurred
In the meantime the negro ha
gone on to the home OF w. NJ. Will
whom he aroused with the story {
the tragedy. The men Of both hous'
holds at once started for the seem
a carriage being placed at the dli
2osal of Mrs. Grover.
The bodies were still warm whe
the parties arrived at the Grove
home, but both father and daughte
had evidently died instantly.
Aviator Falls Into Pines.
DerIfn (SpeciaD 49, Hans Grad