Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-06
,-.,.d with Liquor N. Karth'
Butcher, Commits Awful
Double Crime.
,a,seuY WITNESSED BY SON
Who Says, "If He Don't Die !
Hope They Hang
Him."
. occuny Cots az st, Marks HOS
mi. Afternoon, Where Hus-
hand Is Probably Dying

prLLETlN 3 y. m'-na''' ""'
"a the operating table ut ST.
y.,t's in a diving condition
Mr.. karth viii recover
nrlsk erazed and brain maddened
.,,opeh the excessive use OF iquor,
~ ysr,h a butcher and living at 14f
.ss, Third South street, shortly pc
,oon today fred two bullets into
81. v,fe.s body, and then hacked at
Il. avn throat with butcher knife
The victims Of the tragedy are oc-
,,,y,ng cots this afternoon In the
..me hospital, ST. Marks, one, the
80 Win every chance OF recovery
md the other the husband WIN ""''
~ slender thread OF hope.
~ the tragedy Of the affair is added
,,s fsryent Wish of the 7-year-old son,
Dan, an eve witness to the shooting
1Shis mother-"If he don't die / hope
thev hang him"
re shooting OF the wife and the at
,.r,nted suicide OF the husband had a
rfle more OF the tragic features OF
.,cb cases After debauch or days.
Ter,h who had for some weeks past
-, ernnioyed al the Albert Smith &
=, market Eleventh South and state
.,rests. hut who had not reported 10
-,rlr since last Wednesday. ut halt
rat ak this morning told his wife that
X was going out to work. He left home
and returned about II o'clock. showing
The evidences Of having been drinking'
In a rambling mad talk he had begun
The abuse Of his wife that ended In ms
cutching her and firing a bullet that
entered her left shoulder. As she sank
"a her knees with the cry TO save her
lie and shielding herself by raising her
fres rlght hand, the maddened husband
,enf the second bullet that ploughed It's
tay through the heshy part Of he
,hur1b and on through to a glancins
scalp wound
HACKED AT THROAT,
AS the wife, with the strength OF
terror broke away and ran to the
neighhors house I'm the rear, karth
had evidently taken a stand in front
o. large mirror in the bedroom, where
tie shooting had occurred and with a
picked up butcher knife hacked at his
throat Spurts OF blood marked the
mirror and dresser ana the pools
formed on the floor. He had then
staggered TO the dropped pistol. in
which three bullets still remained. and
eutching II had went headlong into
lie kitchen. but still trying 20 end his
oFn deed with the bullet. as the bloody
marks on the revolver barrel and trlg-
ger showed
AZ the drst slot. Paul. the seven
year-old son, had rushed into the room
o. his mothers cry and then, in the
hoyish fear, fed until he saw his moth
Or running screaming from the house,
and heard her call TO get her sister,
Yrs c. II. Highland
AZ the Smith store where Karth
worked for several weeks past, 1t was
said today that Karth had failed to
report for work since last Wednesday.
y was known that he was addicted to
liquor, but for his absence at different
umes he had made excuses of his boy
having a broken leg. that he himself
rad been confined with slight strokes
o. paralysis and had various excuses
for his absences.
peculiar coincidence In the affair
came to light through Chief OF Police
BARLOW today. Yesterday the chief re-
.eiNed a letter addressed to Mr..
harth, the attempted murderer and
suicide. IN care Of the police depart
hent karth was not known in the
eeparlment until today, when he was
I'ught into the emergency hospital.
~ throat cut and unconscious. The
tt'er was from shoe firm at Platts-
for '' " "'i' "e P"iu
Following the shooting and the alarm
gwen. when the wounded wife ran in
Tue rear home Of Mrs. NJ Condor,
vS police were notified and Sergt.
sushsoh, Patrolmen Gillespie and Betz
fauol Driver Geo Moore. made
hurry run TO the scene. DR.. +. Moor
.Ils'or who had been summoned. ad-
'sed the removal OF the man TO the
emergency hospital. where he was taxi
M ana then removed from there 10 ST
Aarks hospital. The wounded wife
vas hrst cared for at the home where
nes WOUNDS were found not TO be Of a
:, %, nature, and then also removed
TO St Marks ~
DRINK THE CAUSE.
although wounded and terrified Mrs
Her'h remained conscious and gave
representative. p" news
W. Was The cause OF Il all
rs.S husband and l have been mar
~ ~ over "a years and only came here
-. fHttsmouth. Neb., about savon
hIa ~ ago. For several wears nost
~ as been heavy drlnkcr. When
,"s, was Without LIQUOR he was the he AZ
crazy. anu urthh mace him
sD, ne has been away from work 81,
ssi5 ~ store two or three DAYS hut
hecl tnls morning that he was yoinr
hsie 20 work today. He left about
II y basi but came hack home sSo,,,
\. - vVh When he came In knew
lot 100 peen drinking and he began a
,er, drunken abuse in his srr,,,
Ia h, ! tried TO pay no attantio1
ins ~, sn9 all OF sudden ne grahhsd
ana ~ nelo me He pulled a revoiyer
and ,hn ne was going to end n al,
M men shot. ] felt tho hula,
bersa,..h e breast and fell 10 INV tnnas
ars1, nun not 20 XIII me. re 0rsd
ana hs a mat went through nv hand
eor.o hehd' ! thought J was lr,iiss "a az
him aos ! managed TO tear loose ,ro ,u
him ss run. As ran away bssrS
Oh ,,'s ne was going 20 XII h,msai,
II w. horrible, awfully horrIhie 49,.
heen az AZ on account OF drinL IT, p pet
siwavso rinking for years and II m mas
would reld something like tbis
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