Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-07

FATHER SHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER AND tn
KILLS HnlsEII

4 FATHER SHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER AND THIN
KILLS HIMSELF.
\ frightful tragedy occurred at Boston OF
Saturday afternoon, when a man named Al
fred 0. Love, shot his only child, pretty
girl of four, and then killed himself Love
was about IS years old, and was a canvas
ser for the sale of patent rights. He was
married, five years ago, to young lady in
Hudson, Mass, who was only half his age,
but the marriage did not prove a happy
one, and after considerable trouble they
separated last Thanksgiving the wife refus-
ing to live any longer with him. They had
one child, Oracle Mabel Love, a bright and
handsome little girl. On the mothers leay-
ing her husband she took the daughter with
her From that time till Saturday she had
not seen her husband. She reports that he
has frequently made threats to other par
ties that he would have possession of his
child, and she has been constantly in fear of
an attempt to abduct it.
Mrs. Love and the child have lately Oc
cupled an upstairs room in a tenement on
Bennett street, and here it was that the
tragedy was committed. Mrs. Love mad
intended to take her child to Bridgewater,
Saturday afternoon, where it would be safe
frem mOleStation by the husband While
making al. angements to this end, between
, and } O'Clock, Saturday afternoon, the
husband called at the house and went up
stairs. According TO the woman's story,
they had considerable talk about family
affairs, Love repeating his desire to have
possession Of the child, which his wife ut
terly refused. They were about ready to 20
away, and the three came down from the
third to the second story, the father leading
or carrying the little girl, and the wife
close behind.
While the mothers head was turned for
a moment, the father somehow drew the
child into the narrow entry, and drawing q
pistol, shot his daughter in the head lie
then darted into the large front room, where
he buried the contents OF two barrels of the
same pistol IN his own brain, and fell to the
floor, where he lay with blood and brains
exuding from his head, for about an hour
after he shot himself, when he ceased to
breathe. The little girl received one shot,
the ball entering the head on the right side
close TO the car and taking downward d.
rectlon. She became unconcious soon after
ward, and was taken to the city hospital,
+" Aoie ouo iSniaineul yesterday, CONSCIOUS,
but with only slight prospect of recovery,
the ball not having been extracted.
Mrs. Love says, that though her husband
was a shittless and a strange acting man, he
was not addicted to the use of intoxicating
liquors, and she never knew of his drinking.
If it had been jealousy which melted the
deed, it would be supposed that he would
have made an attempt upon her life but
nothing of the kind was attempted, nor
did he make any threats, at that time, of
personal violence either upon her or the
child. TheCirst intimation she had of any
such thing, was hearing the shot and seeing
The result. One of the Boston papers con-
Iains an intimation that Love shot his child
Q prevent it from growing up in house of
ll-fame. All in al, the tragedy is one of
he most singular, as well as terrible, that
mas occurred in Boston for long time.