New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24
FAMILY OF THREE KILLED.
BODIES IN FLAT TITO DAYS
Suicide Pact of Couple Suggested
Baby the Other Victim.

George Boyce. thirty-fve years old; his wife.
Ida. thirty-two and their six-mOnths-old baby.
were found dead last night in the apartments
on the second floor OF the tenement house at No.
Is2 West Sixty-second-st. All had been shot
revolver lay on the floor OF the apartment
near the body of the man, and hence the police
suggest that the man killed his wife and child
and then himself
TIE Boyce's moved into the rooms last Sat
l,rdav The police have information that the
shooting occurred at about p. m on Sunday.
The bodies were much decomposed. Neighbors
who saw the couple they took possession OF
the fiat thought something was wrong when the
Beyces were not about the house either Sun
day Monday or yesterday, and last night the
janitcr discovered the crime
Persons in the house say they heard the shots
on Sunday. The sounds seemed To come from
q greater distance than the Boyce apartments,
however, they say. no attention was paid to
them at the time
The Boyces had lived at No. 152 West Sixty
secoad-st.. only few doorS west Of the apart
s,1ent house in which the tragedy occurred. On
June they gave UP the apartments at No. To-.
Whether It was 10 let Mrs. Boyce have a va
cation does not appear, but she ana the child
went to Islip Long Island. The husband placed
an the household effects in storage
The police say Boyce worked 4 stableman
Cor a Mr. Coleman. who lives at Turtle
Taub," West End. \. J. Mrs. Boyce. those
who know her say, unusually attractive
with q fine figure. and mass OF brown
hair. She was often i'll Some of the neighbors
say that Boyce. who. the police say was heaVy
drinler. once said that prior to the birth of the
baby he had spent more than $4,000 in doctors
hills for his wife. The Boyces were married
about three years ago The woman Is said TO be
a daughter OF influential and well to do people
living now at Islip. Thus far the police have
not been able to fird any one who can state posi-
lively the motive for the Boyces breaking UP
housekeeping in June. They think there may
have beea suicide pact.
The rooms in which the tragedy occurred were
IN ba. condition The household furniture had
been moved in on Saturday and nothing had
been unpacked The woman caring for the
baby when the shots were fired. Mrs. Boyce ap-
parently had been holding the baby on her lap.
and. after the shooting, the baby had rolled to
the floor az the mothers feet.
The police "a work on the case have another
theory that Boy:e objected to his wife going
away from the house Sunday, and killed both
her and the baby in Jealous rage NeighboTs
say the husband worshipped the wife, and can
not remember any quarrels between the two
prior TO June.
Later Coroner schoIer learned that Boyce
had been away from the house Sunday after
noon and had found returning that his wife
and child were absent and that he could not
get in Finally he got pass key from the
janitor, which he returned later.
The police evolved still another theory. This
was that Boyce had had bad luck and had
little or money, that he brooded over the
problem of supporting his wife properly, and
that finally in despair of ever getting ION his
feet he determined TO do away with all three.
The police say that Boyce went away Sunday
,-,,4gr
had reached home. Boyce probably loaded his
revolver on the stairs leading to the floor
which his fat was. because several unused
cartridges were found on the stairs.
While Mrs. Boyce was at Islip. Long Island.
in June and July Boyce wrote her very fire.
quently, addressing his letters in Of "P. o.
Box 222-" Coroner Scholer obtained several of
these letters last night. One of them says in
part:
I woke up the other night, and thought I
heard the baby cry GOO GOO" and ii made me
cry like child. 1 cry every night, dear heart.
/ never knew how much l loved you till now
that you both away from 1 wish for
you by night, and think Of nothing but you
and baby.