Woman Confesses Killing Husband
April 24, 1922
Mrs. May Boyle has confessed that she shot and killed her husband, James Boyle, accidentally, last, Saturday.
Mrs. Boyle told the court that her husband was teaching her to shoot a revolver, and having shown her how to hold the weapon, walked in front of the gun just as he told her to fire. She said he fell to the floor with a bullet in his heart.
When the body was found the doors were locked and the screen was torn from one window.
A revolver was in Boyle’s hand and a note lay beside which read: “Good-bye, wife and children. Don’t blame anybody for this. I have mistreated my wife. Am tired of living Good-bye to all. “JAMES BOYLE.”
Chauncy McGovern, handwriting expert, said that part of the note had been written by Boyle and part by his wife.
It is assumed, according to James A. Nutting, district attorney, that Mrs. Boyle pieced parts of Boyle’s old correspondence together.
Boyle and his wife had been separated for about a year and Mrs. Boyle had returned to him only a few days before. Mrs. Boyle is being held by the Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter.
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