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Description: A Terrible Tragedy. Samuel RUNDLE Kills Three Persons and Commits Suicide at Italian Canyon.
Date: March 15 1889Newspaper published in: St. Louis, Mo.
Page/Column: 2
Austin, Nev., March 15.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Italian Canyon, twelve miles from here, yesterday afternoon. Samuel RUNDLE killed his father in law, Geo. HOSKING, and his brother in law, aged 15, by shooting them with a shotgun, the charge of shot entering the neck and severing the jugular vein of the former and tearing away the face of the latter. A boy named John KING, hearing the shot came toward the house. He was met by RUNDLE holding the gun. The latter asked the boy to shoot him. The boy refused. RUNDLE then took the boy's horse and rode three miles to the lower ranch, entered the kitchen of the house and with a pistol shot Mrs. HOSKING in the head and then shot himself in about the same spot. The four bodies were found at the two ranches, lying at right angles, forming a cross. The shooting was the result of a family quarrel over a division of property. The four bodies were brought here last night and an inquest held. The quadruple burial will take place tomorrow.

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