John Etter Clark (March 29, 1915 – June 3, 1956) was a provincial politician, teacher and farmer from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 until his death in 1956.
Clark committed one of the worst mass murders in Alberta history before taking his own life.(...)
Murders and suicide
On June 3, 1956 Pete Parrott, a neighbor residing on a farm leased from Clark next to his farm in
Erskine,
Alberta had stopped over for a social visit. Parrott happened upon a grisly mass murder scene
finding seven people who were shot at least once through the head with one victim being shot multiple times. Six of the victims were already deceased with a seventh barely clinging to life when Parrott arrived. The seventh victim was taken to a local hospital but died shortly after. The victims had been shot with .22 caliber bullets.
(...)The dead included his wife Margaret Clark, his son and three daughters, a hired farm hand, and a visitor to the farm. (...)
Police found the body of Clark lying just on the edge of a dugout approximately 600 yards from the farmhouse where the murders took place. He had a single self-inflicted bullet hole through the head and was found with the murder weapon lying at his feet. Clark was found adorned in night attire as if he had been preparing to go to bed. (...)
Clark had been suffering from frequent nervous breakdowns in recent years. He was hospitalized for a month and a half in 1954 after one such breakdown. He also had one during the spring session of the legislature in 1956. At the time of the mass murder, it was considered the worst such event in Alberta's history.
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le pire meurtre de masse d'Alberta est un drame de la période critique septennale des 42 ans, et du jour critique émotionnel de son auteur :
3 juin 1956 (29/03/1915)
Ve 1 I(26)
Sa 2
Di 3 P(1)
Lu 4 E(8)
Ma 5
Me 6
Je 7
Ve 8
plus précisément jour critique physique P1 dimanche 3 et entrée dans le jour critique émotionnel E8 en fin d'après-midi, à 41 ans et 2 mois. (entrée période critique septennale des 42 ans)
la situation (épisode triplement critique fort) de l'épouse (Margaret Dinwoodie Clark)(le jour du drame est intéressante aussi :
3 juin 1956 (15/07/1919)
Ve 1
Sa 2 P(18) I(9)
Di 3 P(19)
Lu 4
Ma 5 E(8)
Me 6
Je 7
