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leading from tne s»cnwanKe iront hallway, having broken a panel of glass in the door and ricocheted off a hinge in the door jamb.Mrs. Johnson turned, according to Mrs. Schwanke, walked down the four steps, then reeled about 10 feet down a 3-foot terrace in the yard and fell backward. Mrs. Schwanke said she heard Johnson say, “I hope you have got all that is coming to you,” and then shoot j himself in the right temple once. He fell in the yard close to the body of his wife, their feet touching. The pistol, a German Mauser 7.65 millimeters, corresponding to an American .32 caliber, was found at his right fingertips.The shot which killed Johnson ranged upwrard and struck three feet from a second floor bedroom window' in the home of Harvard Smith, 7618 5th Ave., from which Smith’s wife, Harriet, was peering in the brightly moonlit night. Mrs. Johnson’s screams had awakened the households of several neighborsNo Inquest ScheduledMr. and Mrs. Schw'anke rushed dowmstairs and found the John-• sons, both gasping and blood spat-vac rfoiuison nome on am /vve. anasecreted himself inside the north side entrance. The car was later recovered at the park.There is an areaway just inside the door with steps leading upward to a room at the left and another flight leading to the basement at the right. Police said Johnson ap parently confronted his wife when(Continued on Pi(« Fire) ITokyo—(U.R)—A typhoon claw'ed s area last night, leaving the Japenslt; 80-mile-an-hour windsThe storm moved on to the north the city blanketed in darkness wit) of fallen telephone poles, trees and There was no immediate estimate of damage, but it was believed to run high with many Japanese injured and thousands left homeless
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Kenosha Evening News
Kenosha, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Aug 31, 1949
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