People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — TRAGEDY IN MISSOURI. [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY IN MISSOURI.

' A aiaysville Man Shoots His Wife aixl Fatally Wounds Himself. ; Maysville, Mo.. Feb. 22. —Tuesday ! i night J. Froman shot his wife, who in ! trying to ward off tho gun received i the load in her right hand and j breast. Froman then placed the muz- j zle of the gun close to his abdomen, j worked the lock with his foot, and j ! received the entire load in his abdo- > I men. He will die. but the woman may | recover. She says that he stole into the house from the back way and began to abuse her, and when she pleaded with him to go he seized the gun and shot her. She had refused to live with him on account of his ill treatment.