Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Kills Wife Shooting at Target. [ARTICLE]

Kills Wife Shooting at Target.

Charles S. George shot and Instantly killed his wife at his home in Barre, Vt George was arrested. In explanation he said that he had been accustomed to shoot at a target in the house with a Flobert rifle. He got up early and setting up his target in the kitchen, went into the next room to shoot. Just as ho fired the first shot Mrs. George came out of the bedroom In her stocking feet, and stepped in range, receiving the bullet In her neck near the jugular vein. She died within a few minutes.