A JEALOUS WIFE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 October 1913, Page 2

A JEALOUS WIFE.

SHOOTS HER HUSBAND. The case of Airs Joseph Dare, a beautiful, young matron, who shot her husband as he was opening the front •door, jvith a latchkey at' 3 a.m. on August-6th, is a source of painful perplexity to the authorities of Savannah, Georgia. After a romantic courtship tli'e couple lived in a state of ideal happiness until about a fortnight before his death, Mr Dare resumed his bachelor habits by remaining at the club until after midnight. His nocturnal absences • caused his young wife to become frantically jealous. When midnight struck on August oth and lie had not returned,

she seized a revolver and waited patiently in the hall. Mr Dare opened the door hours later, and at that moment his wife fired, mortally wounding him. Her remorse was instantaneous. She rushed into the street, crying out, "I've murdered my husband." The police were obliged to tear the frantic woman from the arms of her dying husband, who. was taken to the hospital , where he lay in a hopeless condition, while his .wife, in pitiful despair, was confined in a cell. Mr Dare subsequently dictated his will, leaving all his property to his wife, whose act he declares was due to misunderstanding. "I love her devotedly," the wounded man whispered to his lawyer. 'K>ur life together has been ideal. My dying wish is that the authorities will not prosecute her for her tragic mistake."