The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-23
KILLS SPOUSE AS
 SHE PLAYS PIANO;
 THEN SHOOTS SELF
New York Banker Commits Double Crime 1n His
 Fashionable Home.

New York, March 23.-Howard Boo cock, treasurer of the Astor Trust company, shot his wife as she was playing the piano in their home at S6 East Seventy-fourth street about $50 last night, and then shot himself Both were dead when a, physician ar rived. Just what caused the murder and suicide the police were unable to learn early this morning. The maids, who were all in the. basement, the floor be- low, were unable to tell of any family. trouble that might have led to the shooting. Officers of the trust com pany denied that MT. Boocock had had any financial difficulties.
 Something that came up at dinner evidently led to a disagreement be- tween the couple, who were both about 39 years old. Anna Magnussen, the maid who served dinner, said that MT. Boocock was talking excitedly during the meal and seemed angry. They had dinner about TAO o'clock and after it was over Mrs. Boocock took .her coffee in the parlor, which is on the first floor, with the dining room just behind 1t, where MT. Boocock stayed.
 Police Reconstruct Scene.
 Then Anna went downstairs and left the couple alone, but from the position of the bodies and the stories of what the maids heard the police have fig ured that this is about what hap pened:
 Mrs Boocock sat down before the piano1a and the strains of one of Bee thoven's works f1oated down the stairs. Her back was to her husband, who sat on a low couch across the room snok- ing a cigar. Suddenly Mir. Boocock must have called to his wife, and as 1 she turned a bullet from a revolver i-crashed into her left temple, and she 1 topp1ed over onto the floor, where her cerise dress turned a, darker hue. There was 8 brief interval and then Boocock aimed at his own temple and missed, the bullet burying itself in the l wall He fired a third shot and fell of the couch, dying almost instantly. i It was nearly twenty minutes later when Mary Haggerty, the cook, passed l the door to the parlor on the way up stairs and saw MT. Boocock's feet isticlzing out in a position that gave her instant alarm. She rushed in sn6 found him dead. but her mistress was stilI breathing.
 Mrs. Davison sunznoned
 The cooks cries brought up the oth. CT servants, and they began to tele. I phone for assistance. The first cal was for Mrs. H. P. Davfson, wife O. the member of the firm. of J. P. Nor gan & Co., Mrs Davison hurried tS
 
 Mrs. Boocock died.
 1 An attempt to get the family pKysi l-cian failed. and pr. Norman DitrnaT of 24 East Forty-eighth street wa. finally reached, but got to the hous too late He said the wounds would have been fatal at any event, and tha MT Boocock must have died aImos instantly.
 Acting Captain GIoster of the Eas Sixty-eighth street station. with De tectives Kelly and Gallagher, got t, the house within a short time afte the shooting. but there was nothinl for them to do except try and find ou why and how it happened. I Thought Shots Were Autos.
 The maids said that they heard Mrs Boocock playing tip to the time rrare explosions were heard. which the, thought Nweer due to bursting automo bile tires. The music was the onI, sound that had penetrated to the foo below No sound of voices raised i anger was heard.
 The Boococks have two children, boy of 8 years and a girl of II, wh were both in bed when the shoot1ni occurred.