DREAM OF "WILD WEST."
TRAGEDY COMES TRUE. LOS ANGELES, September 14. Captain Pepper (GO), a retired hotel; keeper from Winnipeg, shot 1 Bertha Kirk (50), a character actress, in a street in Hollywood, and then committed suicide. The bodies were found together by policemen who heard the shots. Captain Pepper's wife told the police officers that her husband was madly infatuated with the actress and wanted to feature her in a "wild and woollywest" tragedy, where the hero and heroine would die in each other's arms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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86DREAM OF "WILD WEST." Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 7
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