Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-08-22
Bloody Double Tragedy, With Mr..
and Mrs. Dallas Clements
the Principals.
SAYS HUSBAND WAS JEALOUS
Was Talking to Wife in Des Moines
Dairy Lunch Cafe and Pulling
Gun Shot Her Twice Through
Head, Then Himself.

CleuSHCS, years OAu, was SAO'
and instantly killed in the Des
Moines Dairy Lunch cafe on Fourth
street at about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon by her husband, Dallas
Clements, who was jealous of atten-
lions said to have been paid to his
wife by other men. Clements then
turned the gun on himself and sent
a bullet through his brain. He was
hurried to the hospital where he
died at S o'clock without regaining
consciousness.
Clements entered the cafe, where
his wife was employed as waitress,
shortly after o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon and secured permission
from the manager, G. w. Barnard,
to talk to her. The couple talked
in low tones at a table in the cafe
for nearly two hours.
Suddenly, Barnard, who was sit
ting at the desk in the front of the
restaurant, heard Clements push
back his chair, and, turning around,
saw him leap to his feet and jerk a
revolver out of his hip pocket.
"I'll teach you to run around
with other men," Clements cried,
and before Barnard could move the
husband fired three shots into his
wife's head. She fell over on the
floor, instantly killed. Barnard
rushed at Clements, but just before
he reached him, the crazed man
placed the gun against his left tenn
pie and pulled the trigger. He fell
across the lifeless body of his wife.
The police were called and DR..
Brown, assistant city physician,
rushed to the scene. Clements was
still alive and he ordered him re-
moved to the Methodist hospital.
Clements breathed his last at 5
o'clock without having regained his
senses. The bullet had entered his
brain.
Clements was desperately Jealous
of his pretty young wife, according
to relatives of the dead couple. He
is said to have caught her writing
a letter to travelling man at Oska-
loosa, Saturday, and it is claimed,
he took the letter and another one,
signed by the man to whom she IS
said to have been writing. Glenn
ents took the letters to County At
torney Thomas Guthrie and asked
to have the man arrested Guthrie
promised to take charge of the case
Clements later returned to the
cafe and told Manager Barnard that
he had notion to get gun and
kill his wife and himself. 81 talked
to him." Barnard said yesterday,
"and tried to reason with him. He
finally agreed to leave town and
leave his wife alone"
Clements is alleged to have at
to kill his wife Saturday |
uiSHt III thcIl looAho az VIZ uilN
street. Roomers in the house state
that they were attracted by Mrs. |
Clements screams, rushed into their
room and found Clements standing
over his wife with a razor in his
hand. He was disarmed and left
the house. He secured room at |
1919 Grand avenue and had not
seen his wife since Saturday night,
until yesterday afternoon.
Clements worked at the cafe
where the tragedy occurred until
He has been working at
he Kurtz restaurant on Locust
street for some time.
Barnard was the only one in the
ront part of the cafe where the
hooting occurred, at the time. Sew
raj employees were in the kitchen
md ran in after the first shot was
lred. Several Of them saw Clements
all to the floor. The shooting was
lainly heard on Fourth street, and
large crowd Of curious spectators
DON formed. A Gordon OF police
vas detailed to keep the crowd
way from the doors.
Three Bodies Recovered.