The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-15
MOTIVE IS SHOWN
Reason for Killing OF A. G..
BOyce Sr. by Snead
Due to the Fathers COnnivance
at His Sons Escapade.

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan Isl. B.
Snead, who Saturday night shot and
killed A. G. Boyce, sr., at a hotel
here, will have a preliminary examina-
on bail.
At the conclusion of religious ser
vices in the jail sunday he said that
he intended to live better life in
the future" He has so far refused to
discuss the killing of Boyce, who was
! the father Of A. G. Boyce, arrested
in Canada several weeks algO, on a
charge of abducting Mrs. Snead from
a sanitarium here on November g.
Relatives and friends of Boyce say
they viii press the prosecution of
Snead vigorously.
The shooting took place in the
crowded lobby of the Metropolitan no.
tel and caused a panic. Boyce was sit
ting in chair near the entrance of the
| hotel talking with friend when Snead
came in from the street The two men
saw each other. Neither spoke. Snead
drew a revolver from a hip pocket
and fired five times, four bullets pass
| ing through Boyce's abdomen. Boyce
! fell to the floor unconscious and died
at 10 O'Clock. Snead ran up Main
street two blocks before he was
caught Boyce was unarmed.
Boyce and his wife have been here
/ for two weeks fighting to prevent eX-
4 tradition of their son, who was held
at Winnipeg by the immigration au-
thorities. following the arrest there of
himself and Mrs Snead, whom he was
/ charged by indictment here with alb
Quoting. Only Saturday was the in
dictment dismissed.
The Sneads arrived here from Can
| ada a few days ago and have Eeen
! staying at the Worth hotel. one block
] from the Metropolitan Mrs Snead
became hysterical when informed of
! the shooting.
Early in November young Boyce
came to Fort Worth and after draw
n ~ COL Io-r1 L n
with Mrs. Snead, who had been
placed in a sanitarium here by her
husband who sought to break the re-
lations between the pair.
Boyce and his father own the Capt.
! toll ranch in the Panhandle. the 1arg-
est in the world. Young Boyce and
/ Mrs. Snead were traced to St Louis
and New Y ork and later to Winnipeg,
where they were arrested. At that
time Mrs. Snead declared she would
/ stick to BOyce, but when her husband
| arrived ne persuaded her to accom-
pany him to Texas Then began a
4 fight over an effort to extradite young
Boyce for abduction 1t was asserted
Mrs. Snead was Of unsound mind. The
! dispute developed into a feud which
has been growing more bitter every
day. Both families command millions
and are supported by strong friends.
Snead expressed surprise when he
learned that the county attorney had
had the charges against Boyce dis
| missed at the instance of Boyce's faith
| er, but he made no threats. Just pre-
vious to the shooting Snead was walk
! ing down the street accompanied by
| Mr.. Atwen. federal district attorney
his brother-in-law. He said to him:
Wait till go to the hotel and get
my grip
The shooting followed.
| There is considerable feeling here
against Snead as it is charged he had
nothing against the elder Boyce and
/ that the latter was unarmed and sit
| ting in a chair when shot Snead is
in the county jail under a strong guard
and refuses to tax
/ Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 15.-Ac-
| cording to the statement of H. H c.
Compton a detective who was active
| in tie Snead-BOyce case at the time
Mrs. ]. B. Snead was taken from Win
nipess by her husband. Mr.. Snead then
revealed the motive which caused the
killing of A. G. Boyce, ST., in a hotel
at Fort Worth. Tex
Snead, according to Compton. &C
| cused the elder Boyce of dipping him
| in connection with the elopement of
the latters son with the formers wife
Compton says Snead charged that
! the elder Boyce had posed as his
friend and had pretended to take a
stand against his own son, when in
reality he had eonnived at Mrs. Snead's
/ escape from the sanitarium in which
she had been placed.