BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1902 Shoals, Ind., May 20. – Today about noon two shots rang out in quick succession at the home of Abner Holt, two miles north of Shoals and David Salmon, aged 55, a veteran of the Civil War, was a murder, and Anna Salmon, his wife, aged 49, fell dying at his feet. Before the fact was barely known or an arrest could be made he had sent a bullet crashing through his own heart, dying instantly. Salmon was a widower with seven sons when he married the victim of his wrath about four years ago, and their married life was very unpleasant. Four weeks ago they separated, she going to the home of Holt. Today Salmon went to the Holt home, and entering the room where Mrs. Salmon was building a fire, said: "Anna, I want to talk to you; I want you to come back and live with me." She replied: "I do not want to talk to you, and I would rather die than live with you." Without another word Salmon pulled a revolver and fired two shots, one striking her in the right side, just below the arm pit, killing her instantly. Salmon rushed from the house and started for this city, but on meeting a gang of road workmen called one aside and told him of his horrible crime. He said that no one could arrest him, and that he was going to commit suicide. He walked a short distance and sat down by the roadside, and while the men were contemplating what should be done with him a shot rang out. They hurried to where he was, only to find him lying in a pool of his own blood and dead.