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Slaying of Al Boyce in Street of Texas Town End of First Narrative of Love Tragedy of the Plains
TREACHERY OF A FRIEND LEAVES A SCARLET THREAD IN ITS WAKE
Snead’s Avenging Gun Brings Balm to His Torn
Heart-—Faithless Bride Pays Penalty
With Health, Happiness and Beauty.
\ ■ . ta a re nurse!'ss as Corsica
.. w :»steel, and not the law, was
. . .; on with which wrongs were
,-i r.e I lias reached its tragic termi
nation. \ blood last as poignant as
, r inspirr ! a Breathitt county inoun
. ~? i - to sight down his squirrel rille
. • out private grievance has been
sat ated.
story that has left a red blot on
, T< xas was written when, after a
v , ’■ Anitins’. John Beall Snead, mil
lion.lire cattleman and banker of
(t, town. Teaxs, saw Al Boyce, Jr.,
before the portals of an Amarillo
I ( ;■< h and the smokb of his own shot-
;!1 -..id him as it drifted lazily to meet
t hazing ’..one Star sun that his
- it of vengeance had been fulfilled,
r father, and Boyce, son.' had
vr his home end his life. From
t viewpoint of the cattleman, Boyce,
f, r and Boyce, son. must die. It
■.vs the law that he had known since
the •aiiy cattle days v hen hy had buc-
1 .:i his first six-shooter. in his
; h< could not look his fellow Tex
ans in the eye until both Boyces were
p t; ir graves and his hand had sent
t . in there.
Wife, As Well,
Fays the Penaltv.
[t,. fa. : >t■ r. was slain in a Fort
n rth hotel is tb< Now Year of 1912
<T vn< d. Boyce, son, perished Satur
day. And a ■ om-o . fraiL hysterical—
s, nw ~ iy insane- - ’i' -s. the price of the
I, i,nd that tile code of the range de
;The beauty that had made
yn >i B.nyec forget the sanctity of his
p. ’s ’.mme bis dis ipy area. The
fix rt’ir. r shotgun of her husband could
tot risiori the good name that she hail
1 n. '.. f< ■, the first r of the
t ■■. v ittrn. She, too, as we'.l
■ Boyces. has paid the price.
t;. u- -i se .”.<1 tn be written to the
but. nt! sequels, it loser the
■ of tb< first i ■rr itivi .
]• ■ - >• C critten in the dim light of
a ■ ,■■ t I’ may told in the r.sr.
r ,Cp.» t s st 1 < i-b.nv ■■ d room
of <t.T,< Jt ■my .il, ay f>r thou-
• ing years of the slay< r.
■ r ‘be end may be, the
f . t ..i. Ans rin through the
r -.wt i'“ beginning will be
t . .. tj.p Qr'at Author writ’s
1 me'
I. i'ktT. ' OriCK tO
Cm: Days.
: Titling of the story harkens
b in Texas when man’s
, ’ , list cue on the scab s of
.1- r Ji,,. ,prii e cf a, man's
t' 1 ,fv of .the man that had
fl c it.
Pai] Sn: 'd was bort: and
r in the rough and read' days of
T ■ > r m ■ civilization's progress b.ad
i ■ .. Plan's im * >t-’se to i»ct on his
I n ' instincts.
•' r was a . ioneer cattleman.
. x "i. '. counties. 11 is
. me of thousands.
i r's wealth and ideals he
T ■ S'- ul home sat was mar
• i:. In : tint -ection nioinbei s
< were overlords. Their
- um ispjtcd as that of
i baron.
~r .ir adjoining ranch lived thi
Tin- f’oyi-e acres were no !os«
t ■ those . f the Sr -ads. 'l' '.cir
inti ■ sts w< r< none smaller.
ir so, i"I position was the same. For
s tie I’.ev, os and tiie Stti ads lived
i’i r: igh’i ■ . I’riendship be
t en members cf tl family was mu
t’ 1 d.-e-' until one i veiling John
Ai c: fit might home his bride,
t : ' '■ IS I fell glOl .V Os
■ ■ setting sut nd ra swire T( -
t -• t< ii ■■!. both lunches.
and
TFiiy yk’.'i? Wfld.
etc ■ h.m waited until late in life to
mist! : ’fi r his millions. Wmn
’I- ■ in it v. int out to a woman
■ - is junior. Her ideas were the
New Texas. 11 ren ironment
1 b n tb. it of the city rather than
t ranch.’ Het education had been in
’ e minaiy. His hid been on the
I I--.
‘■at ibspite the wide differen-e in
'■ ’■ nd the vast discrepancy in ideals
■tt ruining, the pair seemed excellent-
■i: ted. The tender, rose-pink bride
| ''v ntly 1: id given her whole heart
■ ritgg .1, primitive cattleman. He
turn l>, towed on h. r a devotion that
ihe man who has reached the
f life gives the maiden who has
■mb red her youth to beeomi his
' 1 ompa nlon.
Sn. ad fortune was nt her com
! lid Io giant her cverv whim. Snead's
|r -'!iei v.a.- her guarar’ei that her
rv >w wish ould be gratified. Years
■ i'll ' happiness seemed to stretch
‘>i before t pair as unending as the
■ of the husband.
; ? Meeting of
Soul Mates.
wi'.- hiu.li rejoicing at thcSne-i'
' ’i ■ n Hie arrival of • mistress !'<»;■
n:. in. Th ■om hful bride w -i'
• ’ true T> x-'Ti styh . Bonfi • s
i a royal welrom-’ to her. lioli
' ’ det f (?r r.. cowboys. They
!':■ f<» join the ;•< v-T v of the oo-
■ N !•-. ;.b’ »rs t: ::\ <•’(■(! I’ I’ll sur-
: '-meh'-s to extend th’ir con-
on the »nif’d cv cnln*’ th°r-
’ n«» ' ongratulations mor. w.i o
m.it» full . ,i< cp|it«* ’ th.in *h' ,
• ? i<*t < ■ f» i ; d hv t ile nr tn 1, is■ ■ ’
\"■ "f I'”.'-
‘ ’ !’•»'»<■ b-’ ~ u.• •< • ’tio{m (h” !
■ tml I, a i.iici mm nu .luiotp. j
i I the first to he proudly presented to the
■i I radiant young bride.
. | W ith him hail ridden his son. Albert
Boyce, Jr., pride of his father's heart,
heir to the Boyce fortune, hope of the'
il .yce Im is’e 11 , too. was of the New
l'i xas. His nlucation had been ob
tain. d in the cities and in college. His
1 earing had been under a different
school than that in which his father
1 and Sm id had been taugnt their ideas
i of life.
, Each Sees They
Are of the Same World.
j He had the breeding of the plains,
. but the training of the city. In the
j hearty but rude welcome of the ranch
5 hi ami the bride both were conspicu
ously oiti of the picture. To them
j bride's r ,ses would have been more
fitting fi ciuation than burning mes-
if u
111
lilsliH
.lljes Snead and
"EXOPE ant> &o to
C.ANAPA
unite b ush. Evening clothes would,
h.-r i* b* n more I‘ting than rawhide
’| < h:i; s.
i When th youth gr-isped the hand of
I th l ' b: ide knew that the.v were
’mining in th*, eyes of one of their own
i w wld, a world from which they wer *
as far removed as if both had been
leas: oa * coral s slan<l of the South Seas,
j \\ i:h this realisation the seed of trage
|dy «,u planted.
Snead and ills bride soon settled
down to th- 'mind: uni of ranch Ilf--. Sol
. >verwiie|ming was the husband love j
jth.it 1* could not see that which was]
I not . ::>|died io make the life of his
mate complete. Her every wish was a
i comma nd to him, but he could not tiring
|to tile m*-quite the pleasuii s ilia; had 1
1 been he: s before she had pit dged het - j
i self Io him for eternity. Albert Boyce.
■ Jr. ' the sole link that connected
her-with ’hat existence, which as the
w * ■ and months tolled on in unend-
ing sameness, seemed farther and far
:ho>. :iwav, mote and more to be de-'
' sired.
Young’ Boyce
Titcrested in Bride.
i At the Boyce ranch it was noticed
that for th* first time young Albert
was i v inelng a de* p interest in his
father's cattle affairs. His trips to
l'o’i Worth. Amarillo and nearby cities
had been* constant became less
f-' , ' , |i*'n*. They finally practically
to. ■ •■d. When he left his father's es
tat'.-'. it was only to make a neighborly
: !<• to the Sm ad ranch. Boyce, Sr.. I
rejoici I in the interest the son was
taking in his affairs.
Sm ad saw nothing sinister in the in-
i .’casing frequency of young Boyce's
t'sits to his home. IL had known th*
boy fiom childhood. In his mind he
i ■ uid never be anything but a child,
the son of his ft iend.
Business affairs constantly called the
; ■•attleman to Fort Worth, where he was
lai rely interested in several banking
I institutions. H was glad that the
presence of his neighbor's boy pre
cluded the possibility of the wife of his
heart becoming ion-some during his
absence.
But the Cattleman
Sees No Treachery.
| Others saw the friendship of the
youth of the city for the bride ripen
I into dangerous fruit. They kept still
i tongues in their heads. Mrs. Snead
' is Ba. s.ir's wife. The cattleman saw
nothing. knew nothing but his great
l**i» for tlte girl he had brought to
saar* his home.
I' rally he la gan to recognize that the
* io iiad planted in the prairie was
wilting. His mind could not grasp
th**..gli, tea! it was pining for the ex
otic ai: of tin- city and the care of a
cardem r who knew plant life in urbane
places.
Bliysi* ians were consulted. Her af
i fiction was nervous, the.v declared.
’ Plenty of sun and air was the cure
|i■ • v pr* * ri'neil. The ranch gav* her
j ill of that.
Only Young Boyce
Brings Back the Roses.
But :m rosi ontlniied to wilt, only
I m t . ale of young Boyce did i's
jb*aiily return. His visits to the Snead
m be* "■ till m« " fr<puent.
1* m*i iiy, till *at lit man muv yd ins wifi
ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANU NEWS.TTESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912.
MRS SNEAD AND EVENTS IN THE TRAGEDY
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ARRESTED IN \ •'*/' |WL.-/
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CANADA- z
. to Fort M’orth. Site was placed under
the case of a specialist. A treimd
nurse was - provided her. The cattle
man longid to see the ros-. s return to
her cheeks.
When Mrs. Snead left the ranch
young Boyces interest in cattle sud
denly died. He hurried to Fort Worth.
The youth and the bride met. Th ex
realized the inevitable. The impulse
that had drawn their lives together
from the first meeting could not be li -
nk'd. An elopement was planned.
Both Fear the
Husband’s Wrath.
Both realized its dangers. They
knew the school in which Snead had
been trained. They knew his charac
ter. They knew lie loved bis honor
more than he Bid his life. Still they
did not hesitate. The months and
months they had been kept apart
seemed to them so much wasted time.
Tltt> sooner they could be together be
yond the shadow of the husband was
in their minds all that the world held.
So it was that while riding ,>n .1 tr<-l
ley car with her trained nurse Mrs.
Snead disappeared At the same time
the earth apparently swallowed young
Boyce.
The cattleman was aroused. His be
lief was that bis wife, mentally de
ranged. had wandered off. knowing not
where she went. Detectives wen put
on the trail. But to his mind she still
was Caesar’s wife.
People began to whisper. The whis
pers became mu rm us. Finally they
were loud enough to reach tile cars of
Snead. Still his wife was above re
proach. Until he had proof to the con
trary, she could do no wrong.
Then the Awakening-
Os the Blind Husband.
Then the blow fell. A telegram \\ is
received by the cattleman. It told him
that his wife had been located in Can
ada, living with Boyce. The pair C l
pierced far toward the Arctic circle to
escape the husband. Had they known
the trail of blood that was to follow
them, their journey would probably
have been continued to the end of 1
earth. Even chill Canada had not f ir
nished them aaylurn from tb-- law of
tin range.
Tililt evening Smail retur n u o his
w Ifelr—s borne and again t. ■ ,ti': ■
cun shed red rays uti the two taiichcb,
jHe swore no deep oath. He did not
kiss a dagger with Corsican dramatics
as be mentally promised vingeanee for
his shattered home.
But he buckled on his six-shooters,
which custom hml long since declared
no necessary part of a Texas gentle
man's wearing apparel. From tliat mo.
merit war was declared on tlte house of
Boyce.
Law officers were sent to bring the
girl-wife back to the home from which
she had lied. -Sli* still was Caesar’s
wife No o<’;*-. ; s vii* sent for Boyce
The only law that Snead knew had de
; manded a blood penal;; of him. Snead
I was content to wait.
Apparently, Snead
Forgiven His Wife.
The wife r* turned. She was again
made mistress of the broad lands and
the fortune of the husband she had de
serted. To all intent she was forgiven,
but there was no forgiveness for the
man or the man's kind that tip- hus
band considered had lured her away
and besmirched his honor.
Prominence of the families made the
ass iir the talk of that section of Texas.
Powerful as was Snead, he could not
keep tongues from wagging.
Another blow was struck at his al
ready h*-ivilv laden heart, ’i’ll" elder
Bi ;* ' . bis- fi n nd. his neighbor, ids
I business associate, was said to have
I been fully info>"*i* *1 of his son's action,
itn fact, lie had supplied the money
that made th** elopement and settle
ment in Camii' i piw-ibl* . He also h:*
said tilings .’-at should not have been
j said of < >-.! i',« wife.
Shoots Old r
iWlio Had Deceived Him.
Th- younger Boyce was still In Can- I
| tda, but tl’i elder Boyce was in Fort I
! Worth. Tli* re was v ork for Snead to |
'do. That night lie oihd Ills six-shoot- I
ers. e The m xt morning he rode to Fort
Worth
The cattlemen met in/the lobby of
on* of tlic prominent hotels of th«
Tt I- city. It is not recorded 1h it
I Sn-iiil gave the father a chance to tight
■ for hi life As h** construed flu- law of
tlie rang* , the man whs beyond tile pale
of human consideration. Hi was to !>.-
shot as a wolf, as a mml dot*. The stx-
■■**■ ■ v did their work well. The cldef
I I ! *'V * :I* *1 ill I ';■• iI a i a ■h* vv I
.'•l** * . lid nut count <>uc, nut I
did he cut a notch in his gun's handle.
He slipped loaded cartridges in the cells
where the exploded ones had been
There was still work for those pistols
His arrest followed. His trial cam--
on. But there is still an Old Texas as
well as a New Lone Star state. The
twelve men who were summoned to try
Snead wer n.-ible to determine which
vv>re tiio propel laws, those made in
Austin or those born of the range.
A mi-trial resulted. Smad was re
iea-ed under heavy bonds.
Young Boyce’s Love
For Home Fatal.
Canada still gave young Boyce a
haven. He had not dared come to
Texas for tile funeral of his father. He
had not appeared at the trial of the
sl.-iy*’r of his parent. He knew the
price of the range's law.
But months sped by. Snead had re
tired to his ranch, vvtiere lie was ap
parently devoting his life to the woman
who hail wrecked it. The boy's heart
yearned for his native Texas. Perhaps
it yearned for sight of the woman for
whom lie had sacrificed honor. Time
gave him confidence. Months of -Hence
on tlie part of Snead gave him coinage.
Quietly he prepared to return home.
No word of his intended trip was com
municat'd to Amarillo, but last week
he appeared on its streets.
Ami tile word was Hashed to tlie
ranchman.
Tliat night an automatic shotgun w i
milled to the traditional aim.-im nt if
thi Tex: n. Pistol- frequently miss A
su <•>' o* alii is carried In a shotgun
loaded with buckshot. F.iilur to .urn
out his work was no part of Snead's
pi;, n.
Few Recognize the
Grief-Bowed Ranchman.
I F**w recognized tlie ranchman when
| he appeared th" next day on the streets
of Amarillo. For months he had be<*r
in seclusion. Those months had bee.,
months of suffering, of brooding, of
thirst fm vengeance. The.v iiad told tn
the lines of ids f ace . H( , was |)() !ong( .
tl>* happv, prosperous, well kept Ranch
man of tlie olden day-. A s'-ragg.
board covered ids ehe-ks and chin. A
new tire burned In his deep set eves.
ll.* walked about the streets with his
-lioigun under Ills arm. ns a huntsman
* aiiie.- .t H- was hunting. <m i th*
■■ S’III one.
• vamd and there waa no sight
■ND HE 11
K JEM[ ’
Model Husband and Father
Turns Embezzler and Weds
Another Woman.
CAMDEN. N. J., Sept. 17.—James E.
Ennis sat in the Gloucester police sta
tion and admitted lie Is a bigamist and
an embezzler, but he declared he didn’t
fully realize he was either until ar
raigned before Magistrate Hambleton.
In this assertion Ennis was upheld by
Dr. H. \V. Boehringer, who has at
tended him for years. The doctor de
clares the remarkable dual personality
of the prisoner is caused by an odd
case of neurasthenia, the result of a
blow on the head the prisoner suffered
while in the navy seven years ago.
Until recently Ennis, a model hus
band and fa tlmr, was collector for the
Robert Bailie Company. Then lie col
lected $301) tor the firm, and instead of
turning it in went to Willow Grove
park. Philadelphia, where he met Miss
Camilla Hughes, of Gloucester. He
proposed to her and the couple went to
Gloucester, where they were married by
the Rev. John M. Davis.
The pair went on a wedding trip to
Washington, where they remained un
til the S3OO was gone, when they re
turned to Gloucester. Afterward En
nis, who had married the young woman
under the name of James Elbin Mor
ton. went to Atlantic City to look for a
position.
While in Atlantic City the awaken
ing came. Mrs. Ennis, worried by the
absent e of Iter husband and by the fact
that he bad been charged with embez
zlement. caused a story of his disap
pearance to be published.
<>n Monday Mrs. McNitt, a friend of
the Ennis family, saw the notice of
the disappearance. As she finished
reading it Ennis appeared before her.
He acted strangely, and she asked him
into the house.
This seemed to bring him to him
self. and he could remember he had
taken' the money of his employers and
also had married a woman, when he
already had a wife of whom he thought
the world. But he could not tell why
lie had done these things. They came
back to him. like a dream.
When he awakened to the fact that
be was an embezzler and bigamist he
took the first train back to Gloucester
to tell the second young woman of his
plight and to request hei; to get a di
vorce or do something which would al
low him to return to his legal wife.
INDIAN GALLOPS HORSE
THROUGH PACKED SCHOOL
TUDSA, OKIjA., Sept 17.—For riding
a horse on a gallop through a school
house near Skiatook in Tulsa county,
while school was in session, Frank
Fink, an Indian, is under arrest, charg
ed with "grossly disturbing the peace.”
Fink's act precipitated a panic in the
school.
of his prey. At last, as once more the
sun was setting and the rays were red,
Boyce appeared. He was riding in a
street car. Perhaps he saw the grim
hur>ter on the sidewalk is he sped past
He did not recognize him if he did. Th,’
days of suffering had afforded a dis
guise of which man's art is incapable.
Boyce alighted one block farther on.
The hunter still stalki-d him The last
chapter of the tragedy was to be writ
ten. The safety notch on the gun was
pushed forward and Snead drew nearer.
Shot Down in
Shadow of Church.
The eloper stood before the doorway
of a church. Its sanctuary afforded
him no lefuge. He saw the hunter ap
proach, but he did not know that he
was the game.
He saw the shotgun raised and point
ed. He had no time to flee. The gun
roared and he fell, his right side pierced
with 30 buckshot. It is doubtful if
even in the final moment In- recognized
his slayer.
A weeping mother, two heart-broken
brothers were soon on the scene. They,
too, were paying the ptlce. .They did
not see the slayer His work was don .
With steady tread he walked to the of
fice of the sheriff. He handed over his
shotgun. The six-shooters were un
buckled. Smad stood ready to answ
to man-made law. The law of the
range had been paid its penalty cf
blood.
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Bolt to Opposition College
Opened by Dissenters.
CADHOUN, GA.. Sept. 17.—A lively
row is in progress in Fairmount be
tween the local trustees of Fairmount
college and the general board of trus
tees backed by the faculty. Fairmount
college is one of the conference schools
of the Methodist church and was for
merly a flourishing Institution when
Rev. J. A. Sharp, now president of
Young Harris, had charge of It. But
since then it has had ill luck and the
present trouble threatens to bankrupt
it. A few days after the college con
vened for the fall the leader of the local
faction with his followers walked into
the schools and announced that a.n op
position school was open for pupils at
the Baptist church. About half of the
students bolted.
The case has been brought before the
county board of education and vain ef
forts are being made to effect a settle
ment.
Professor J. A. Boyd, of Walesha, Is
president and Rev. E. M. Stanton is
1 gent of Fairmount. The college has
helped educate some of Georgia’s lead
ing men.
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