Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1909 — FIVE CHILDREN ORPHANED [ARTICLE]

FIVE CHILDREN ORPHANED

Village Blacksmith at Davenport, N. Y., Kills His Wife and Himself. Oneonta. N. Y., June 29.—Alfred Rexford, the village blacksmith at Davenport, near here, went to the home of a .woman neighbor where his wife was stopping and shot her five times, killing her instantly. He then sent a bullet into his own head and fell dead near his wife’s body. They leave five small children.