WIFE BLOWS HUSBAND UP.
■ * In a signed statement, Mrs. R. J. Miles has confessed tbat she caused tbe death of her husband at Coeur D'Alene (Idaho), by blowing up the shack ln which he wss asleep ln the rear of their home. Sheriff Glynn said the confession was Toluntary and made ln the presence of himself and Deputy D. M. Cathcart. He said that Airs. Miles declared she placed six sticks of dynamite under the building occupied by her husband and set them off. causing the explosion. In the statement Mrs. Miles said she planned the act herself and tbat no other person was Implicated, Sheriff Glynn announced. Mrs. Miles and her 18-year-old son had been taken Into custody. Mr. and Mrs. Miles were taken to the sheriff's offlce following a-domestic altercation, which was declared' to have centred around Miles' alleged attention to? another woman. When they returned home Miles had gone to bed In the separate building.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 11 July 1925, Page 31
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