The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-15

ANOTHER BoYCE DEAD
Feud Which Started With Elopement
Last Winter Has Resulted
In = Bloody
Story.

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.
AMARILLO, Texas, Sept. 14.-John
Beall Sneed, murderer of Captain A..
s. Boyce and principal in the Boyce-
Sneed feud which has startled the
people of two nations by its tragic
Incidents. this afternoon shot and in
stantly killed AL Boyce, who eloped
with Sneed's wife last January. The
killing took place in front of the t
Methodist church here.
A beard of several weeks growth
furnished complete disguise, and
those who saw the shooting thought
Sneed hunter.
Immediately after the shooting
Sneed walked to the jail and surren-
dered himself.
The killing of Boyce is the last
tragic incident in long list Of trag-
edies which began last January, when
Mrs. Lena Sneed ran away from a
sanitarium In Fort Worth, where she
had been placed by her husband for
nervous and mental trouble.
| Mrs. Sneed, in company with Al
! Boyce, left Fort Worth and there was
snail chase after the couple by Beall
sneed across the United States into
Canada, where they were located in
/ Winnipeg.
4 Sneed prevailed upon his wife to
4 return I'd r sxass She sandeseA
account of the letters which passed
i between Captain Boyce and his son
4 and the assistance alleged to have
f been given young Boyce by his faith
Ter, Beall Sneed shot Captain Boyce to
death in the lobby of the Metropolitan
/ hotel in Fort Worth. The shooting fol
lowed a conference with Mrs. Lena
jSneed and her husband. There were
numerous witnesses to the shooting.
: This was the second tragedy in the
series which followed the abandon-
ment by the woman of her husband
and children.
Following closely on the trial OF
Sneed for the murder of Captain
Boyce came the news of the tragic
, death Of Beall Sneeds father, who was
murdered by an insane tenant in the
t postoffice at Georgetown. The dement,
: ed farmer, who was possessed of the
! idea that Mr. Sneed had done him al
) injustice regarding his farm land, i'm
! mediately committed suicide.
Since the trial the movements OF al
! the principals in the case have beer
I kept as secret as possible to avolo
!. unnecessary notoriety. II r'as general
ly supposed that Al Boyce was still IL
). Canada.
The shooting occurred in the prin
cipal street of the city within tw'
: blocks of the business district. Score
! who were near the scene could Civ
: no ineligible account of the affair
: so quickly was the tragedy enacted
A party who had just passed an
Q spoken to Boyce turned at the repor
: OF the gun, and saw Boyce drop t
y the walk AT the same time Sneet
: who appeared to be tramp, &C
9 vanced to the middle of the stree
working the magazine of an automati
gun.
Heavy loads Of buck shot took e
E feet in Boyce's right side and deaf
4 must have been instantaneous New
n paper men were not permitted to Sc
Sneed tonight and neither he or b
e attorneys had any statement
IS make.
n When the warrant was read Snee
r waived hearing and further action d
c ponds on the grand jury, which co
IS yenes Monday morning in reguls
e, session.
le Boyce was thirty-eieht years OF as
n and had returned to Amarillo but
n few weeks since, to make his first VI
ig it here since his elopement with Mr.
i'd Sneed.
O. So far as could be discovered
n night, no one knew of Sneed's pre-
ence in the city