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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 jkS «sJ» k/ i <wk ■ XX-. tSiKiS \ 7/A M/M ■ ■* m / WiMi T wtei JW/t 11 I I JHw ' <■ Hr i / ( NWIS yvwJ-l \( VW I ‘’El /1 Kw WO/ lIAJ l\ w’HSA S. / ulflt (MVJ 11 i V .|K Cli u v L' a \ xW v W 'aSW- vllmSr J'/i i>i ■ T Snead, wearing- z>.' isayoH ■ »1 iin I w ATALsj>3EA.ieD try®?’/i AS a xms&vj&E; Aw <X'i ! 1 1 brycl \ l|aW ! ® w i NX 1 4 wS Hrs yZz!W‘ ; / Sneax> and \Hz iw / herwsban'd 0 \ VAv W 1 wz’ STCOME \ V 7 \ SlK&irtlz u // reconciled They atce \ ' \ T? IwSF # ARRESTED IN \ •'*/' |WL.-/ WINKIPxC-; \ '/ lIF / 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. V JI Sold under the unqualified guarantee of “ satisfaction, or money back. ” 1 lb. 20c.—X lb. 10c.—X lb. sc. None better made at any price. All good Grocer* sell it or will get it for you. '7 ii i mih l LIB ■mu II ■■■ <▼ !wu ewuHM'i *i« in H - rvr. - t-nwwn ■ - ww***-* rcr*' ,<wr.r - ■ -7. ®jug:.. - I EVERY TIME You See a Pair of Glasses Think of ATLANTA OPTICAL CO., 142 Peachtree St. They Originate. Others Imi'aie. Perfect Glasses Wrwr wr aim .pj®, /• .....<- in-pf ft- iwsi ■DISRUPTS (■MHDDL Half of Students a! Fairmount 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. READ THIS. 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