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Shoots Two, Then HimselfDAUPHIN (CPI—An eyevv tru descnixd Tuetday how a Dauphin man Monday night shot down his Wife and her landlady before turning his rifle on h Tiself and dying with arms around his wife’s bodyDead are Robert Harris, 38, his estranged wile, 36. and her landlady. Mrs. Annie Waldorf. 47. All were of this community, 110 miles north of Brandon.Poiice {ieM.r;bed the death* as murder and suicide. The Harris couple had five children.Frank Yuskow trld police he was in the two-storey, frame house of Mrs. Waldorf with the two women and another man WINNIPEG lt;CP* — Four-year- when Harris visited them aboutRelatives Take Girlold Debbie Rosman, whose na- « p m He said they had “arents and brother were killed drinks ”Sunday in a highway accident,will have a home and everything that fond relatives give her.1 Debbie lost her parents. Mr and Mrs. Bert Rosman. and herfewYuskow said Harris asked his wife to return to him. ‘ hut she can refused—then he left the house.”RETURNS WITH RIFLEYuskow said Harris returned tothree-year-old brother Johnny *he house an hour later with ain a three-car collision on the 30-30-calibre rifle. He said theTrans-Canada Highway seven man f»red a shot into the wall asmiles west of Headingley. Adriver of one of the three carshe entered.The witness said the other manhas been charged with criminal who was present fled from thenegligence. Debbie nowlies in hospitalhouse when Harris entered Yuskow said Harris shot Mrs.with severe cuts and bruises to Waldorf in the kitchen as he and the face. She will be in hospital Mrs- Harris ran out the backdoor.He said he waited beside thedoor and jumped on Harris Vhenrivoa in U'mnim.. came out, but he could notrivea in Winnipeg late Monday .. „ , *» • ,■ . c. ■„ ?.* ’ wrestle the rifle from Harris’for “a long time.”Mrs. Rosman’s mother. Mrs. Mabel Babcock of Oshawa, ar-night. She will live in the Rosman house until Debbie is readvhands.to leave hospital. Thert she will' Yuskow ?aid Harr”1 P»imed take the little sirl to Oshawa thc 8un at h,m and 'uskow where all of Mrs. Rosman s relatives live.asked: “Are you going to killme?”Harris replied “no.” Then he She will have a home and turned and shot Mrs Harris, whoeverything that we can give her.” fell in the backyard. Mrs. Babcock said Tuesday.1 “Everything that is here that belonged to her mother and father will go to her.“I will stay here until she can travel. But she is going to be in hospital for a long, long time.”KNEELS BESIDE WIFEYuskow said Harris then walked to her body, knelt beside her, and shot himself in the head.Police, summoned by a neighbor. arrived to find Harris lying with his arms around his estranged wife’s body.A neighbor, C. E. Ward, said he heard nine shots fired in all. He said he called police when Motorists will be fined if they he heard six shots fired. Another do not stop while pedestrians three shots followed after a 10-f are crossing intersections. Po- minute silence.Stop Or Pay, lice Chief Harry Collister warned today.The chief also told drivers to Dauphin, refrain from passing on thc right-hand side while travelling on Victoria Avenue.An inquest has been ordered by coroner Dr. R. E. Dicks ofUSE SUN WANT ADSDIED AT 104BOMBAY lt;AP i—Abdulla Mahmud A1 Fozan, Bombay's oldest resident, died Monday at 104
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Jun 01, 1960
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