BOY MURDERS GIRL WIFE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9103, 24 March 1908, Page 2

BOY MURDERS GIRL WIFE.

Pittsburg, February 1. A climax not often equalled in a Court trial was produce:- m the office of Coroner Armstrong when County Detective George M. Lennon told the story of the confession o± George B. Hartzell: a railroad brakeman, twenty years old, of the murder of his sistoen-year-old wire, as the detective had heard it while concealed in a closet in the room where the dead wife’s mother lay ill in bed. Hartzell was heldjfor the premeditated killing of the _ girl, to whom he had been -married but three months, and who was buried three weeks ago as a suicide. On the night of December 39th Hartzell called in neighbours, and weeping, showed them the body oj. his beautiful wife, who ha-.i eloped with him three months before, ibe girl’s bead had been almost blown off bv the charge of a shotgun. The husband explained that His wife had committed suicide as he was preparing to go to work. Two weeks ago young Dlartzell was arrested. Mrs Maire Gassy, mother of the dead girl, declared that he had confessed to her that he killed his wife she would not stay at home at nights. The alleged confession took place in Mrs Gassy’s sickroom, where toe young man had called.