Skamania County WA Archives Obituaries.....Spires, Clarence Wesley February 1915
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LaCamas Post February 26,1915
ENDS HIS LIFE
Slayer of P.A.Larson Found Dead In His Barn
Clarence Wesley Spires, who on January 5th, killed his neighbor,P.A.Larson, and 
who was released on $10,000 bail on Saturday, was found dead in his barn 
Monday. His failure to come home for dinner alarmed his wife and she phoned to 
neighbors,C.Johnson finding the body.
The officers at Vancouver were at once notified,and upon their arrival at the 
scene an inquest was held and a verdict that deceased came to his death from a 
gunshot wound inflicted by his own hand  was returned by the jury.
Spires was 48 years of age and leaves a wife and six children, besides three 
sister and three brothers as follows: Mrs.Olive Fair of Manor,Wash.; Mrs. 
R.Buchanan of Vancouver; Mrs. A.Dennis of Portland; Oscar Spires of 
Hockinson;Fred Spires of Lebanon,Ore.; and Edward Spires of Ashland,Ore. He was 
a native of Illinois. He had retained ex Prosecuting Attorney L.M.Burnett to 
defend him.
Spires, it will be remembered, surrendured to Coronor Limber at Sifton,and 
maintained that he had shot in self defence. He claimed that Larson, upon being 
asked what he was doing, replied that he was "looking for such fellows as you" 
following this remark with a motion as if to draw a gun. Spires claimed that he 
then drew his gun and fired three times, the first striking Larson in the 
breast and the others in the side and back.

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