Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-14
Special to rimes-Republican.

|
Iowa City, Feb. 14.-Lorenxo Boarts
shot by his cousin, Fred Boarts is
dead, and the slayer and the latter's
wife are lowering between life and
death as result of the triple crime
chronicled in these dispatches Tuesday
afternoon. The victim died less than
three hours after the shooting. The
surgeons, while fighting for the lives
of the other patients, admit that it is
an uphill battle owing to the terrible
wounds. ~
The wife has three bullet holes in her
body. Her left lung was pierced, and
the bullets RANGED doTnward from the
left breast, where two OF them en-
tered and above which the third en-
tered. Two passed clear thru her body,
one passing out near the spinal column
and the other a little to the left of that
The third is in her body, but an X-ray
will be taken to determine II probing
is desirable.
| The murderers left lung was, also
pierced, the bullet entering his chest a
little below the heart and ranging
down until it reached and passed thru
the abdomen. 1t traversed the body
and came out Of the back, little to
the left of the middle, missing the
spinal vertebrae
| Locks Self in Room-Thsn Shoots.
! After perforating his wife and his
cousin, and after these two had dashed
from the room bleeding and screaming,
with Fred Boarts in pursuit firing, the
slayer went back to the room, locked
himself in and RELOADED his thirty eight
caliber revolver, which he had emptied
in the fusillade. Then he fired twice
altho the surgeons found but one hole
on either side of the body. Probably
he missed with his unsteady hand at
ter the first shot. Three bullets were fired
into the body Of the now dead man.
One passed clear thru his back, and
came out of his abdomen. The other
| two ares till in the lifeless form.
| Despite these terrible injuries he
ran, stumblingly. down the stairs, and
then a shade more than block, to the
office Of DR.. j. q. Mueller. where he
placed himself in the doctors care. and
made a statement to his wife and 9TH
ers. before he collapsed. He was taken
to the hospital. thereafter, but did not
rally from the shock and died in two
hours and quarter.
Slayer Insanity Jealous.
The slayer was insanely jealous. He
had vowed to kill the cousin only a
quarter of an hour before the actual
deed. In a saloon, the murderer, tho
not apparently intoxicated, was very
bitter and violent, and, without stating
why he was jealous. he declared that
he void kill the man at sight. He
vowed that, If the cousin entered the
saloon then, he would shoot him dead
on the spot and he drew out the big
3S-caliber revolver in token of his sin
certify. He was warned to beware of
such threats. and left the place. In ten
minutes, he invited the cousin, whom
he found on the street, up to mis-
rooms, in the rear OF Justice Crossett's
police court Offices. The slayer al
legged that he found his door locked
but the cousin, ins his ante mortem
statement, declared that he accompa-
MED the assassin up stairs. at Fred's
request, and that the shooting was
without cause, as Lorenzo had done
nothing to excite Fred's jealousy. It
Is stated that Fred Boarts purchased
two revolvers a year ago, and went 10
Des Moines, with the avowed intention
of hunting up his. wife. who was not
staying at home with, him just then,
but had gone to the capital to visit
friends. 1t is rot BROWN tina: anything
developed and they afterwards lived
together here as usual,