Murder And Suicide

At Kidgeway, Mo., David G. Sprag-g-, a farmer, in a fit of insanity, the other day murdered his vrife and two children, mortally wounded his two stepchildren wlth a butcher knife, and then took his own life by shooting himself. Evidences of a terrible struggle were plainly visible in the Spragg home. The walls, books, stove and furniture were spattered with blood. According to the story of Dora Onstatt, a step-daüghter of Spragg, he tied the hands of one ehikl behind him and deliberately cut his throat. Then he hacked his wife to pieces and finallv Willed himself.