MURDER AND SUICIDE
HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE THEN HIMSELF HOST DISCOVERS BODIES United P.A,—By Telegraph Copyright NEW YORK, Friday. An amazing tragedy is reported. James Pauley, of Chicago, aged 54, chairman of the board of directors of the Miami Coal Company, and a leading figure in the fuel business of the United States, shot his wife, and then committed suicide. They were d wealthy couple, and had been invited to a Thanksgiving Day dinner at the home of a millionaire friend, Mr. William Bode, who waited an hour for them, and then went to fetch them from their apartments at the Ambassador Hotel. He discovered Mrs. Pauley dead in a chair. She had dressed for dinner, and had sat down to work out a crossword puzzle, when she was shot through the temple. Her husband then apparently stepped back into a bathroom and took his own life in the same manner. Pauley was known as the country’s champion strike settler. No motive is known for the tragedy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 834, 30 November 1929, Page 9
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