MURDER AND SUICIDE
MILLIONAIRE’S CRIME , SHOCK FOR HOST (By Came—Presa Assn:—Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 29. James Pauley, of Chicago, aged 54 year, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Miami Coal Company, and a leading figure in the fuel business of the United States, shot his wife and then committed suicide. It was an amazing tragedy. They were d wealthy couple, and they had been invited to a Thanksgiving Day dinner at the home of a millionaire friend, William Bode, who waited an extra hour for them, and then went to fetch them from then* apartments at the Ambassador Hotel. Bode discovered Mrs. Pauley de*ad in a chair. -She had been dressed for dinner, and had sat down and begun working out a cross word puzzle, when she was shot through the temple. Her husband then, apparently, stepped back into the bathroom and suicided in the same manner. He was known as the country’s champion strike settler. There is no known motive for the tragedy. I
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 7
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