SHOT HIS BRIDE THEN TOOK POISON - Jealousy Impels a Groom of Four Months to a Double Tragedy: A bride of four months, Mrs. Edgar H. Frantz, aged nineteen years, is dead, slain by her husband, a well-known drug clerk of this city. Frantz is dying from the effects of morphine which he swallowed after firing two bullets into his wife. The woman was murdered in her sleep. Frantz left a note in which he said they had agreed to die together, but from the note and other facts it is believed Mrs. Frantz was the unsuspecting victim of her husband's jealousy. The traged occurred about 4 0'clock this morning. Frantz was twenty-one years of age. The life of the young couple had been made unpleasant by quarrels ever since their marriage, Frantz being intensely jealous of his young wife. Several times, it is stated, he threatened to kill her. She expected to leave tomorrow on a visit to the West with her mother. Frantz opposed this trip. Last night, however, the couple were apparently on the best of terms and in good spirits. On retiring they requested that they be called at noon today. When an attempt was made to arouse them they failed to respond. Forcing open the door Frantz's father found them lying on the bed. The woman was dead, with a bullet hole in her head and another through her breast. Frantz was still alive, but his recovery is regarded as impossible.
The Saint Paul Globe August 10, 1903
The Saint Paul Globe August 10, 1903
SHOT HIS BRIDE THEN TOOK POISON - Jealousy Impels a Groom of Four Months to a Double Tragedy: A bride of four months, Mrs. Edgar H. Frantz, aged nineteen years, is dead, slain by her husband, a well-known drug clerk of this city. Frantz is dying from the effects of morphine which he swallowed after firing two bullets into his wife. The woman was murdered in her sleep. Frantz left a note in which he said they had agreed to die together, but from the note and other facts it is believed Mrs. Frantz was the unsuspecting victim of her husband's jealousy. The traged occurred about 4 0'clock this morning. Frantz was twenty-one years of age. The life of the young couple had been made unpleasant by quarrels ever since their marriage, Frantz being intensely jealous of his young wife. Several times, it is stated, he threatened to kill her. She expected to leave tomorrow on a visit to the West with her mother. Frantz opposed this trip. Last night, however, the couple were apparently on the best of terms and in good spirits. On retiring they requested that they be called at noon today. When an attempt was made to arouse them they failed to respond. Forcing open the door Frantz's father found them lying on the bed. The woman was dead, with a bullet hole in her head and another through her breast. Frantz was still alive, but his recovery is regarded as impossible.
The Saint Paul Globe August 10, 1903
The Saint Paul Globe August 10, 1903
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Oh For A Touch Of A Vanished Hand
And The Sound Of A Voice That Is Stilled.
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