The family of George A. Fish, of Noank was wiped out Thursday by a double murder and suicide. The dead are:

George A. Fish, 38.

Mrs. Etta Fish, 32, his wife.

Frances Fish, 4, their daughter.

Fish, who has been a lifelong resident of Noank, drove an automobile to the Poqounnoc town hall shortly after noon, whee he found his wife, assistant to the judge of probate, eating her lunch in an upstairs room, with Miss Irene Lavers, assistant to town clerk, Henry L. Bailey. Fish was in a violent tempter and at once began a harsh verbal attack upon his wife, scaring Miss Lavers from the room, and she was in the hallway when she heard shots fired. She ran for help to the home of Joseph Gray across the street, and when she returned found that Fish had shot his wife in the head and escaped. Mrs. Fish died in about half an hour.

Fish jumped into his automobile, where his four year old daughter, Frances, was sitting, and drove to his home in Noank, taking the child into the grage where he shot her dead and then hung himself.

After Fish had shot his wife and had fled in his machine from the Poquonnoc town hall, the police of this city and New London were notified to be on the lookout for his machine, whose registration number was given as Conn. 64,838. While the search for him was still under way, the news of the end of the triple tragedy came from Noank.

Mr. Fish, who within recent years conducted a grocery store in Noank, was employed in the time keeper’s office at the New London Ship and Engine Co. He suffered a sunstroke a year ago last July. Since that time he has been unwell physically and mentally. At times, it is said, he was nearly blind due to his condition.

Mr. Fish and his wife have not lived together for the last six months, the dead man having made his home iwth his sister while his wife and daughter lived with Mrs. Fish’s mother, Mrs. Walter Burdick, in Noank. The two homes were across the street from each other.

For years before her marriage Mrs. Fish held responsible positions with both town clerk and the judge of probate, Arthur P. Anderson, knowing the business of the office as well as the judge himself.

She was born in Noank, attended its school and graduated from the business college.

Besides her parents she leaves a baby daughter, a sister, Ada, and two brothers, Eugene and Herbert Burdick, both of Noank.

The dead man was a respected member of the community in Noank, although people have realized of late that he was suffering from some peculiar ailment which found expression in his bearing and actions.