A quote from the article below titled…
Blind Spots Yet Remain In Yost Tragedy
(The Fairmont Times, April 9, 1948)
“…The most bizarre series of tragic events ever to occur in the recent history of this city… A strange rendezvous with Death… Many will say ‘There’s more to this than meets the eye”… [After the killings] Yost calmly lighted a cigarette, reloaded the gun with three shells. [The police arrived] and entered the death chamber, the cigarette was still lighted in Yost’s mouth. He was leaning at a crazy angle and blood was trickling in a stream onto the floor. [The bombs were] designed to make a blazing inferno of the kitchen in which a cunningly made effigy of Mrs. Yost reposed before the kitchen table… Only the tenderness and affection that this tortured soul felt for a little dog prevented the fulfillment of this design… Bent as he was on destruction of everything he owned he would not permit his pet to perish in the flames.” – The Fairmont Times, April 9, 1948