ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, July 9, 1936

• Celestino P. Gonzalez mass family murders
• Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Indiana
• Great depression & dust bowl era

The top of the front page has a two column  heading: "KILLS HIS FAMILY OF 7 AND LODGER, THEN ENDS LIFE" with subhead. (see images) Complete with all 40+ pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.

Background: On July 9, 1936, amid a sweltering Midwest heatwave with temperatures soaring past 100°F, 37-year-old steelworker Celestino P. Gonzalez carried out one of Northwest Indiana's most horrific family annihilations in the Indiana Harbor district of East Chicago. Driven by intense jealousy after discovering love letters addressed to his wife, Maria, from Jose Aro—a former boarder and fellow steel mill co-worker—Gonzalez murdered his wife and their six children (ages 7 to 16) at their home. He then drove to the local steel plant locker room where he fatally shot Aro four times in the chest before taking his own life, leaving a suicide note that read, "I have decided to quit this house of Gonzalez. With pain in my heart, I give death to all my sons." The tragedy shocked the nation, highlighting the catastrophic intersection of extreme environmental stress, mental distress, and marital jealousy in industrial depression-era America.