Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....CARSON, W. E. May 1920
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Las Vegas Age - 6/5/1920
 LAS VEGAS AGE

  6/5/1920



  ALEXIS SMITH ENDS LIFE A MURDERER



   VEGAS MAN CHIEF ACTOR IN GRUESOME TRAGEDY STAGED AT COLTON, CALIFORNIA



      Colton, May 29 - How, is a most remarkable double murder and suicide,

Alexis SMITH, aged 42, carefully planned a funeral pyre on which he sought

to burn to death, should he fail to die from a self-inflicted revolver shot,

was related to a coroner's jury here tonight.  SMITH shot and killed W.

E.CARSON, aged 51, a contractor;  fired and failed to hit Mrs. Jennie SMITH,

aged 28, his divorced wife, and then shot himself.  But before he killed

himself SMITH retired to the rear of the yard of the Carson home and set

fire to a stack of hay.  As the fire began to burn briskly, SMITH placed the

  revolver to his temple and fired.  He toppled, as he had planned, into the

fire.  Firemen and policemen dragged SMITH out of the flames, but the bullet

had found its mark and he was dead.

      Mrs. SMITH was found by the officers holding the dead body of CARSON

and sobbing.

      "I have killed the man who broke up my home," SMITH told Mrs. Kate

WARREN, a neighbor, as he calmly handed her his suit case and asked that the

diamonds and other valuables be divided among his five children.  He then

went back to the CARSON yard, distributed $356 and several diamonds among

his young children, and before their startled gaze, killed himself.  Mrs.

SMITH denied that she was in love with CARSON.  She said her husband left,

she secured a divorce, and that she went to work for CARSON as a

housekeeper.  SMITH had been working at Las Vegas, Nevada, as a machinist.

He arrived today from Chicago, where he had posted a letter to his divorced

wife.  The letter reached her yesterday.  He told Henry MILLER today, on his

arrival, that if he found his former wife with CARSON living in the same

house he would kill both of them. - Los Angeles Times.

      Alexis SMITH was well known here in Vegas, having worked in the Salt

Lake shops in this city for some time.  It was well known among his fellow

workers that he was a little "queer" in the head, and the news of his deed

is not surprising to those who knew him best.











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