SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY.
SHIPPING MAGNATE’S DEATH. SANTA CRUZ (California), Sept." 9. Joseph Morgan Grace, senr., one of the nation’s most prominent shipping men, was sensationally murdered to-day by a discharged nurse, who shot him as he sat in the garden of his palatial home with another nurse. The police believe that jealousy was the motive. Mr Grace was 57 years of age, and a nephew of the late Mr W. R. Grace. The woman who shot him gave her name as Frida Augusta Weltz, who, the police said, was formerly employed as a nurse in the Grace home. She had been discharged a year ago and came to Santa Cruz on Saturday, after which she went to Mr Grace’s home, where he was sitting in the garden with his present nurse, and shot him in the side.
Mr Grace has been retired many years from businesss. His acquaintances said he was a member of the New Zealand branch of the Grace family, and was formerly connected, in an executive capactity, with W. R. Grace and Company, a shipping and commission concern in San Francisco.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 8
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183SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 8
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