The Washington times., 1925-06-04
BODIES ARE
RIDDLED
WITH 90
SHOTS
Mother First Victim Of Lloyd
Russell. at Hamilton, Ohio.
Wounds Himself
~ Internatlonal News Service.

By IMfernmtlomal News Service.
HAMILTON, Ohio, June 4.
Crazed by the intense heat, Lloyd
Russell, forty-two, this morning
shot and killed eight persons and
turned the gun upon himself,
sending . bullet through one qslns.
He first killed his nf0fher. then
his sister, his sister-in4aw and
her i've small children.
Flres Fifty Shots.
The victims. In the order in which
they apparently were shot TO death.
are:
Mrs. Rose Russell, sixty; Mrs.
Emma Russell. thirty-five; John l..
Russell. thirty-five; Julia Russell.
ten; Robert Russell. eight; Grace
Russell. six: Paul Russell, three.
and Richard Russell. three months.
Dorothy Russell. eight. was the
only member of the family to escape.
She ran screaming from the house
in her nightgown after the frs:
shot was fired by her uncle.
The repeated barking OF the guns,
punctuated by the screams OF the
one little girl who escaped into the
yard, attracted great throng OF
people to the immediate vicinity. 7
Persons in the crowd which gath
cred near the home Of the tragedy
before the police arrived, were Tea r.
ful to enter and stood by outside,
as the firing continued.
With the arrival of the auto goad
Of police, however, the fears OF the
crowd passed and the officers with
guns drawn, closed in on the house
and entered the room.
No more shooting followed kand a
feeling Of relief swept the vast
throng.
Stark Mad, Police Say.
After the madman had hsen rem.
dered powerless the bodies were
removed to an undertaking. estab-
lishment, where an inquest will be
held.
Police said there way no doubt
that Russell was stark tmad.
His countenance planIly revealed
q very serious mental state. They
said he had not been drinking
and attributed his Sudden insanity
and mad lust for blood to the
intense heat.
Russell was not content with
shooting his victims once. The
bullet-riddIed bodiesl were mute evi.
body of one Of the children.
Five bullets plofwed through the
bodys Of one Of tile children.
The mother, wk o was shot as she
lay asleep In het' bed. was -iddled.
a -
by the heat-cuazed murderer-the
world,
Little .UIorOthy's Story.
Little Dorothy, the seven-yeaI old
niece Of the mad man, is the only
one who cam tell just what hap
pened wheD the gun began to roar
She IL naturally suffering from O
terrific shock and when she doe
talk, hpsj an incoherent story.
Kindly disposed neighbors are
caring kor the little girl and will
ouestion a her when she Is more
compo sed, in the presence of the
corontsr and other authorities.
Tho gun user told the police that
he worked at the Champion Paper
Millf6 in Milton, and was single.
He never drank, smoked or chewed
tob;Scco and was regarded as a
Oo0d citizen. According to his
story q mortgage for 81 500 was due
ON his home Thursday and he
d1ln't have the money to meet 1t.
Therefore, according to the DO
Nee, rather than have himself and
mis- brothers family turned into the
fstreets, he decided to slay every
lbody living there. Two .32 caiibre
Tevoivers were used by Russell.
BY the time the officers arrived
Russell had fired fifty shots or
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