New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Shoots Four Bullets Into H.
H. FolSom'S Head as He
Is Driving.
OFFERS NO DEFENCE
EXCEPT JEALOUSY
Recently Taken from Insane
Asylum and Had Been Act
ing Strangely.
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Exeter Y. H.. June 2o.-Henry H.
Folsom, a Boston lawyer, was found
dead with Ave bullet wounds in his
head on the road between here and
New Market to-day His wife was
standing over the body with e revolver
in her hand. she was arrested ana
admitted she fred the shots.
"I did it because loved him." she Is
alleged to have told the police, who
saw also that she said she was jealous
Of her husband.
Mrs. Folsom was stopping at the
Folsom summer home at New Market
and had driven to Exeter to meet her
husband on his return from Boston for
the week end.
They had driven about two miles and
q half toward New Market. Mr.. Fol-
som occupying the front seat, driving
and Mrs. Folsom sitting in the rear
seat when she drew a revolver from
her hand bag and shot four bullets
into her husbands head. FOLSOM
body fell from the carriage to the side
of the road. Mrs Folsom jumped out
stood over her PROSTATE husband ana
emptied the two remaining bullets into
his body. Then calmly taking box
Of cartridges from her hand bag. she
refilled the chambers Of the revolver
and nut five more bullets into his body.
While she was standing over it an
automobile driven by c. S. Mitchell, Of
winthrop, Me-, and some friends re-
turning from Haverhill. came along
They disarmed Mrs. Folsom and sent
word to the police Of Exeter.
When Andrew Y. Davis, chief Of po-
lice. and DR.. John G. W. Knowlton' the
medical referee, reached the scene they
found Mrs. Folsom still standing over
the body by the roadside and clutching
q revolver. She handed the weapon
over to Chief Davis.
Ts he dead?" she asked the CHIEF
The chief assured her that he was.
.T don't think he is," she said. Feel
his pulse"
THE medical referee made another
exclamation of the body, hndins no
sign of life, and Mrs. Folsom stepped
into the chiefs automobile saying
simply "All right"
After a hearing before Judge mayer
r,L,v,, I,as held for the grand
iurv at the October term of court she
nIeaded guilty, and said the court
youId not understand if she told her
reasons for the shooting
az have no case" she said
On the suggestion of Ernest L. Cup
tu,. County Solicitor, that the woman
ought 70 be represented by counsel the
court appointed Stewart E. Rowe OF
rvo,ar wbo entered a plea Of not guilty
in his clients behalf.
Chief of Police Davis testined 'na'
when he asked Mrs Folsom why she
shot her husband, she answered.
$50 he would not marry ano'he'
woman"
At the end of the nearing Mio.
som was taken TO the Porthmouth jail
Mrs. Folsom is about forty years oio
Her husband was little older.
Mrs. Folsom VIZ recently taken frori
the Mclean Asylum, at Wsverly' by
her husband, who expected to restore
her TO health at his summer home. shs
has been acting strangely OF late ana
was suffering from celusions that ner
husband was about to seek oiVoree
and remarry.
Folsom was formerly principal of the
high school at Gardner, Mass. He was
aduated from Dartmouth College In
1892.
Mrs. Folsom is graduate Of Smith
College.