Farmer Shoots Wife, Then Dies Under Trolley Car

Canistco, New York, 1909
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FARMER SHOT HIS WIFE

Pursued by Several Men, He Threw Himself Under a Trolley Car.

Canistco, N. Y., April 17.-Arthur G. Conklin, a young farmer, last night shot his wife and then threw himself under the wheels of a rapidly moving trolley car. The woman is still alive but is in a critical condition. Conklin is dead.

The couple came to the village at night apparently in the best of terms. Conklin went into a hardware store and bought a box of cartridges, several of which he slipped into a revolver while standing in the doorway. Mrs. Conklin was walking slowly down the street slightly in advance of her husband when he suddenly drew the revolver and fired a bullet into her brain.

Flourishing the revolver and threatening to kill anyone who touched him, Conklin ran down the main street. Several men followed him. A trolley car came running along at the rate of about 20 miles an hour. Conklin dashed into the middle of the street and threw himself between the front and rear trucks of the car. The car was thrown from the tracks and the passengers tossed about but none was hurt. Conklin was terribly mutilated.

--The Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York, April 17, 1909, page 2.