STRANGE TRAGEDY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 3

STRANGE TRAGEDY.

WIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND. Henry H. Folsom, of the law firm of Powers, Folsom and Powers, was shot and killed by his wife, Mary Hardy Folsom, while the couple were driving in a carriage from the Exeter New Hampshire (U.S.A.) railroad station toward their farm in Rockingham, says an American exchange. Mrs Folsom is under arrest at Exeter. She is said to be demented and to have exhibited homicidal tendencies for several months, even grasping the wife of a -neighbour by the throat and threatening to kill her. After Mrs Folsom had been arrested she was asked why she had shot her husband, and to this she replied:

"Because I loved him. 1 was afraid he was going to marry another woman."

Mr Folsom left town on the 1.15 o'clock train for Exeter. His wife had been at the farm for about a week and had arranged to drive into town and meet him. After the couple had proceeded about two and a-lialf miles along the Now Market Road near a place called Burley's Hill, in the thick woods, Mrs Folsom took a revolver from her clothing and shot her husbaud four times. He apparently fell dead from the vehicle into the roadway. Shoots Him Prom Behind. The woman shot him from behind. A pedestrian who passed the carriage ;i minute or so before the shooting says that Mr Folsom was sitting on the front seat and his wife on the rear seat, the couple pleasantly. An automobile party driven by C. S. Mitchell, of Winthrop, Me., came upon the tragedy within a few minutes. They found Mrs Folsom standing over her husband's body with the revolver in her hand, and as she appeared threatening they hurried to Exeter and notified Chief of Police Davis, who upon reaching the scene found Mrs FolsOm still gazing at her husband's, body. The revolver was missing, but the woman said she had thrown it ever the wall, and there it. was found with four chambers empty. The body was taken to Exeter, and Medical Examiner Knowlton found that all the bullets had taken effect in the head, causing instant death. Mrs Folsom was placed in a cell, and again stated in reply to questions that she had killed her .husband because she loved hii:i.