DOMESTIC TRAGEDY
JEALOUS HUSBAND'S MISTAKE Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright SANTA CRUZ (California), > April 18. (Received April 19, at 8.3 a.m.) Allan. Boggs, aged 53, a retired army major, returned home early in the morning and found a note from his wife stating that she had gone to spend the night with a friend l . Boggs, fearing that his wife was unfaithful, took a revolver and forced his way into the friend’s' house. He found his wife in a bedroom occupying a bed, and in the other bed he saw what appeared to be a man’s form. He shot and critically wounded his wife. Their own 12-year-old son ran screaming from the other bed 1 . Boggs unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide.
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Evening Star, Issue 22626, 19 April 1937, Page 9
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120DOMESTIC TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 22626, 19 April 1937, Page 9
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