Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — KILLS GIRL AND HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

KILLS GIRL AND HIMSELF

Double Tragedy on Campus of Smith College—Chicago Man Slayer. Northampton, Mass., April 30.—Porter Smith of Chicago shot and mortally wounded Miss Helen Ayer Marden, a student at Smith college, and immediately afterward shot himself through the head and fell lifeless near the form of his victim. Miss Marden died a few hours later. The tragedy occurred on the college campus near the dormitory in which Miss Marden roomed, and followed a refusal on the part of the young woman to renew an engagement which had been broken. Try The Democrat for job work.