The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15
Disguised, He Shoots Down
Al Boyce, Whose Father
He Slew Last Winter.
BY International News Service.

A MARILLO, Tex, Sept. l4.-Johu
~ Beal Sneed, the rich Amarillo
~ banker, who shot and killed
Captain A. G. Boyce in Fort
Worth on February IA last, this after
noon at 4:30 shot and killed Al Boyce,
son Of Captain Boyce. The killing took
place In front Of the First Methodist
church here. Sneed was disguised as
a farmer. wearing overalls, beard and
carrying a double -barreled shotgun. One
load was fred through Boyce's s body at
close range. Today's killing is the
tragic climax of series OF startling
events which began when Al Boyce
cloped with Mrs Lena Sneed, wife of
the slayer, last winter.
Boyce Dies in Hospital.
Mrs. Sneed just before her elopement
had been placed IN Fort Worth san
itarium by her husband When tine
couple eloped Boyce carried with him
100000 They went from here to ST.
Louis, thence to New York, and were
arrested in Winnipeg, Canada Young
Boyco had been in Amarillo only a
week. Tt was not known that Sneed
was in the city, so completely had he
hidden his identity.
AL Boyco, until he came here a week
ago, was managing ranch in western
Canada Ho did not recognize Sneed
on the street and his death was instan-
taneous- Sneed Immediately surren-
dered and refused to make a statement.
Feeling is running high here, as the
Boyces have thousands Of friends and
supporters. Only few weeks ago Mrs.
Lena Sneed and her husband had be-
come reconciled and were supposed to
be living happily in Georgetown, Tex.
At Sneed & trial hore last winter for
killing Captain Boyce, n hung jury re"
suited and his second trial for this
crime is set for November / |.
Boyces Are Dead Shots.
Sneed shot the elder Boyce while he
was sitting in the lobby of the Metro
politan hotel in Fort Worth. He
claimed that the elder Boyce was in
strumental in causing his wife to elope
with the younger Boyce.
There are three other Boyco brothers,
all rich cattlemon and bankers and all
dead shots.
At the trial last winter Lynn Boyce
attempted TO attack Sneed and one OF
his attorneys. but was overPowered.
AL Boyce, tho slain man, also was a
coyboy, cattleman and expert shot,
For a long time Mrs. Sneed declined to
become recouciled to her husband and
refused to testify IN his behalf at his
trial. When she and Boyce were ar
rested in Winnipeg she refused to ac-
company her husband back to Texas
and at first insisted that she would
cling to Boyce and go with him to his
western Canadian ranch.
Both Families Rich.
Both the Boyce and sneed families
are rich in land, cattle and banking
interests. Before they went to ANA
rillo the two families were neighbors
and friends mt Georgetown. Lena Sneed,
her husband and AL Boyce were school
chums. Sneod and Boyce were S6 years
old and Lena Sneed slightly their jun
Tor.
Mrs, Sneed made many sensational
charges against her husband when she
brought suit and was given habeas
corpus hearing in an effort to release
herself from the sanitarium. Testi
mony WAS brought out at Sneed's for
mer trial in Fort Worth that his wife
spurned his love and that young Boyce
visited the house frequently as a
friend. But once Snced returned sud-
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