SHIPPING MAGNATE MURDERED
Shot by Former Nurse LINK WITH NEW ZEALAND Press Association. —Copyright. Santa Cruz. Sept. 9. Francis Joseph Morgan Grace senr., aged 57, one of America’s most prominent shipping men and a nephew of the late Mr. W. R. Grace, shipping magnate, was shot and killed by a woman who gave the name of Frida Augusta Weltz. The police said the woman was formerly employed as a nutse in the Grace home. She had been discharged a year ago but came here on Saturday and went to the home where Mr. Grace was sitting in the garden with his present nurse and shot Mr. Grace in the side.
Mr. Grace had been retired for many years from business. Acquaintances said he was a member of a New Zealand branch of the Grace family and was formerly connected in an executive capacity with W. R. Grace and Company, a shipping commission concern at San Fx-ancisco.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 354, 11 September 1933, Page 5
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