Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — SUICIDE TELLS OF MURDER [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE TELLS OF MURDER

Robert M. Fanning Kills Wife and Then Himself. New Bedford, Mass., July 27. —After showing a letter in which he said he had murdered his wife, Robert M. Fanning, of Westport, shot and killed himse’f in the police station here early, today. The police later found the horribly muliiated body of his wife. Fanning's father is said to be a wealthy manufacturer of Providence, R. I.