Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — MACY MAN KILLS MOST OF FAMILY [ARTICLE]

MACY MAN KILLS MOST OF FAMILY

His Mother and Two of His Children and Their Murderer are Dead and Son is Said to Be Dying. Peru, Ind., May 16. —Four persons are dead tonight and another is believed to be dying as the result of an attempt of William Dollar, 30, to wipe out his family at their home in Macy, a town north of here. Dollar shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Anna Dollar, 50, and his daughter, Agnes, 5, and wounded his daughter, Ida, 2, so badly that she died in a local hospital tonight. Dollar’s other child, George, 11, is said to be dying, and Dollar is dead, a suicide at the grave of his wife, who died a month ago. Dollar is said to have recently professed conversion at a church revival and is declared to have made tentative arrangements for the funerals of his victims and to have arranged for winding up his business affairs. The murderer shot his victims with a revolver as they slept. Dollar’s father, George Dollar, 65 years old, part owner on an elevator, was not home at the time of the murder. When he learned of the shooting he fled with his mind apparently unbalanced by the 1 shock. Word was received later that he had been arrested at Anderson and placed in jail.