WIFE MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1932, Page 6

WIFE MURDER

HUSBAND’S CRIME. ;

NEW yORK, October 10.

. Mr Charles Edward Dubois, jeweller, of Tuckahoe, New York, whom the police suspected of murdering his wife, shot himself in a small boardinghouse. Dubois died in the hospital with detectives grouped around, hoping that lie would make some admission that would help to solve this bizarre mystery. According to the District Attorney he died without revealing the secret of his wife’s fate.

The police, who are convinced Mrs Dubois was murdered, describe it as a perfect crime, as a week’s search has fifiled to disclose any trace of the woman’s body beyond some strands of hair floating in Plymouth harbour, Massachusetts, and bloodstained clothing in the house. Dubqis was arrested last week on a murder charge, but relesed for lack of evidence'. The District Attorney, while bluntly accusing the jeweller of murder, admitted that -he could take no action against the man until the bod}' was located.

After his release Dubois went into hiding 'and he had been living in t' e boardinghouse for three days under the name of Anderson. The Dictrict Attorney had tracked him down and was about to ask him to explain discrepancies in his accounts of his ivife’s movements when he ended his life. •' The man had told three conflicting stores:

(1A That Mrs Dubois was killed in a motor accident;

(2) That she had eloped with his best friend; M) That she was alive and visiting relatives in Canada.

The jeweller had been courting Miss Grace Atood, an heiress, who believed ho was single.