Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1929, Page 12

12 TIN FAMILY SLAIN BY INGANE FATHER Farmer Then Runs Half Mile From Home and Kills Self in Woods. By the Assoclated Press. WALNUT COVE, N. C., December 26. —A farmer’s wife and six children lay dead today, all the victims of a hus- band and father who had been kind to them until Christmas day, when he be- came insane. After slaying them he &hot himself to death with a shotgun. e dead: Charles D. Lawson, 43, well-to-do farmer; his wife, 38, and six of their children—Marie, 17; Carrie, 14; Mari- belle, 10; James, 7; Raymond, 5, and Mary Lou, 5 months. The bodies of the mother and chil- dren, shot or beaien to death, were found yesterday afternoon in the blood- stained Lawson home and a tobacco barn on the place. The hands of every one of them were folded across their breasts, their heads pillowel and their eyes closed. The father had carefully laid them out for burial. Lying by a pathway in a patch of ‘woods a half mile away was the of the farmer. A shotgun was nearby and in his pocket was a crumpled piece of paper upon which was scrawled: “Blame nobody but 1" coroner’s jury found that Lawson acted in a fit of insanity. Arthur Lawson, 19-year-old son, is the only member of the family who re- mains alive. He was visiting an uncle near Germantown when his father wiped out the rest of the family. His father, he said, had always been ]’rzmd]m him and other members of the amily. ATTEMPT TO MURDER YRIGOYEN UNEXPLAINED Argentine Police Believed Italian Who Was Killed on Scene Acted Independent of Others. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December 26.—Met- Topolitan police today were dt a loss explain the attempt Tuesday against the life of President Hippolito Yrigoyen by the Italian, Gualberto or Gualterio Marinelli. There was no_ evidence to connect the assa: , who killed, after he had fired three shots by members ot the presidential escort, had acted for any anarchist or other subversive or- ganization, or had had any confed- erates. On the contrary, police idential quarters and its over gates. The autopsy is i Tevealed he had five bullet wounds The two men injured when he fited at the President crime ganized political origin. COMET PHOTOGRAPHED. Newly Discovered Body Is West of Star Gamma. HAMURG, Germany, (). —Photographs have been made the Bergdorf Observatory here of the new comet discovered recently by as- tronomers at the University of Cracow. rd of the star Lyre constellation. It is a comet of the eighth magnitude with a taill about a degree long. Party to i‘;xplore Age-Old Mysteries Of Easter Island Contract Is Signed for $1,500,000 Yacht for Pacific Cruise. By the Associated Press. ember 26.—Eld- ridge R. Johnson, Moorestown, N. J., capitalist and former president of the Victor Talking Machine Co., signed a contract here Monday for the con- struction of a $1,500,000 yacht, aboard which he proposes to take a party of scientists to explore Easter Island, a tiny spot in the Pacific, and its age-old mysteries. The 255-foot craft will be® built at , , and is be completed in May, 1931. It will carry two seaplanes, a radio system and a laboratory for be un- el soon as the yacht is com- . Johnson hopes to solve the puzzle of Easter Island and in so doing trace the trek of prehistoric Asiatic civilization across the Polynesian Arch- ipelago. Twenty scientists will be in the party. yne remains of an ancient civili- A on Easter Island include enor- 5 carved monuments, houses, plat- ns, circular towers, cisterns and II and will replace the present Caro- lina, which is about 100 feet shorter. It will be powered with Deisel engines and carry a crew of 35. 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