Burial July 30, 1946
Ailing Man Turns Shotgun On Brother, Sister-in-Law, Friend In Double Slaying
Meridian, July 26. -Three Meridian residents are dead and one is in the Colusa hospital with critical wounds today, the result of a double murder and a suicide at the home of Mr and Mrs Al W. Blackmer in the early hours Thursday morning.
Murdered are Mrs A. W. Blackmer, 65, and Louis A. Moon, 77, her cousin, both victims of Marvin Blackmer, 69, who after slaying them with blasts from a 12-guage shotgun, turned the gun on himself, ending his life.
Burial July 30, 1946
Ailing Man Turns Shotgun On Brother, Sister-in-Law, Friend In Double Slaying
Meridian, July 26. -Three Meridian residents are dead and one is in the Colusa hospital with critical wounds today, the result of a double murder and a suicide at the home of Mr and Mrs Al W. Blackmer in the early hours Thursday morning.
Murdered are Mrs A. W. Blackmer, 65, and Louis A. Moon, 77, her cousin, both victims of Marvin Blackmer, 69, who after slaying them with blasts from a 12-guage shotgun, turned the gun on himself, ending his life.
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