Desperate Murder And Suicide

Mrs. John Wilson, wife of a hack driver at Battle Creek, left her husband because he did not support her. Wilson several times threatened her life if she did not return, and finally he went to the home of Lee Prine, where she had rented roomj, and tried to shoot her. Wilson pulled a revolver, but his wife grabbed the weapon and threw it through a window. The enraged man theu caught her by the hair and dragged her down the stairs and into the yard where he found the revolver. The woman broke avvay, but as s"he ran Wilson fired and the shot struck her behind the left ear and came out of her eye. Ue then put the revolver to his temple and fired, killing himself instantly. Mrs. Wilson was taken to the hospital, but she cannot recover. in Alibi for Srnalley- But 'Tia Too Late. Mrs. John Smalley, wife of the man who was shot and kiíled at McBain by two deputy sheriffs on the supposition that he was one of the C. & W. M. train robbers and murderer of Detective Powers at Grand Rapids, has reeeived a letter from J. C. Anderson, o ! Brinton, who says that Sroalley was a Urinton on the night of the train rob bery and also on the night of the murder of Detective Powers. S. F. Frye, a notary public of Brinton, gives conñrmation of this, and has aflidavits proving that Smalley was visiting relatives and friends at Brinton, 75 miles from the scène of the train robbery and the mui-der of Dectectiye Powers during the time of these occurrences.