IDAHOAN KILLS WIFE
AND FOUR OTHERS

Mail Carrier Kills Five Persons
and Then Turns Revolver Upon Himself
Brooding Over Domestic Troubles Believed
to Have Led to Tragedy the Murderer
Having Recently Attacked His Wife.

BOISE, Idaho,---William Cameron mail carier between Picabo and Carey, Idaho, shot and killed his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Adamson; his brother-in-law, James Adamson; his little daughter, aged 18 months, and his wife, and finished his work by shooting himself in the head at Carey Friday night. Cameron died eight hours later. Cameron, whose wife was suing him for divorce, went to the John Adamson home in search of her. He entered the kitchen door with a revolver in his hand. John Adamson who had Cameron's baby girl in his arms started to disarm Cameron and was shot in the head and instantly killed. Cameron then pursued the others and shot them all down with the exception of Adamson's unmarried daughter, Edith, and Cameron's three other children, who escaped. The body of Mrs. Cameron was found shortly before midnight in the outhouse. She like Cameron's other victims had been shot through the head and instantly killed. Beside her lay Cameron himself with a bullet wound in his head, fatally wounded. The three elder children of the Camerons and Edith Adamson, all of whom fled with Mrs. Cameron when the shooting began were found uninjured. Cameron was recently arrested for an attack on his wife and given a jail sentence. Through the influence of friends he was released in a short time, and had been brooding over his domestic troubles since.

"Idahoan Kills Wife and Four Others,"
Soda Springs Sun (Soda Springs, idaho),
4 Nov 1915, p. 6, col. 4

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