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Three Die In MurdertAnd Suicide lt;ROONEY. Ont * March 20— lt;CP)— v 30- ear-irtd tobacco farmer shot Ills wife and stepson. todav, then drove to Rodney and committed suicide out-* side the toun hall.Police said Leu Is Sumc£i grabbed a shotgun diirinp a quarrel on his farm and killed Ids wife, Marv. 4G, and her son. Louis Nap'. 211-Sun? rpl took n rifle, got into his automobile and drove the one mile into Rodney, pollee said. He shot himself to death in the front seat after parking the car outside the limn hall.Police said the Sum or is were married about three sears .ikiu Her first husband had been found dead on the New York Central Railroad tracks near licrc a short thnr before.Kortnev in 33 miles west of St- Thomas.ROW OYER MONEY The tow which led up to the triple slaying blurted at the breakfast U\b'\ police said Sumepi demanded S500 of the piocceds of last vear’s crop of tobacco grown on the farm, which was owned by Mis SumepL She refused.Tonv Sabo, a neighbor, said Mrs. Sumcpl ran from her house, enter-ed the rear of his home and srmim-ed: He ^ going to shoot me! Mrs. SuTuepi seized a bloom.Seconds Inter, Sabo told police. Sinnopi walked into the kitchen. Once a pa In he demanded 5500. Mrs Sumcpi again refused. With that. Sabo said, Sumepi raised the hot-THREE DIE (Continued on Pape Two
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Mon, Mar 20, 1950
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