The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-12
Ohio Physician Is Shot by
City Salesman, Who Brands
Him as Wrucker of Home
Returns Unexpectedly to
Find Doctor Has Been
Visiting Wife.

A travelling salesman husband
who came home from a trip a day
earlier than usual today was
charged with shooting the doctor
he suspected had been visiting his
beautiful wife.
The doctor, carrying caivalry to
the last degree, tried to convince
police he had been shot in a hold-up
and finally, confronted with the
husbands confession, insisted that
the shooting was accidental.
The husband is Virgil E. Boyer,
90, automatic gas heater salesman,
Is North Highland avenue; the wife,
Mrs. Katherine J. Boyer, 81, and
the wounded man, DR.. G. L. Weston,
43, of Hamilton, o. DR.. Weston
is in st. Vincents hospital with a
flesh wound in his right shoulder.
Sergeant John Sheehan and
squad were sent to ST. Vincent's
hospital at 2:45 this morning on a
report that the doctor had been
brought in, wounded
The doctor said he had been shot
in a holdup near Richmond, and
had been taken to the hospital by
a taxi driver he summoned when
he regained consciousness in his
own automobile east of Indian
apolis.
Admits Shooting Doctor
Sheehan learned from the taxi
driver that the doctor had been
picked up at Is North Highland
avenue. At that address Sheehan
found Mr.. and Mrs. Boyer.
Boyer admitted he had shot the
doctor He declared he usually is
in Cincinnati all week, but returned
home unexpectedly Thursday night.
He said he suspected the physician
had been there and his wife ad-
mited to him she had had dinner
with him.
The wife, according to Boyer, said
the doctor had left about II p. m.
to drive back to Hamilton. Boyer
hoped into his own car and over
took the doctor at KnightstoWn,
Ind, He induced the doctor to drive
back to indianapolis to talk the
affair over, he said.
Seated in the Boyer living room,
husband, wife, and the doctor, we're
discussing the triangle, when, Boyer
said; DO you think it right for
you to love her when you know 7
love her SO much?"
Enraged by Reply
He said the doctors reply, which
he did not give out, so enraged him
that he fired.
The shooting occurred about l a.
m, Boyer said, The doctor was not
taken to the hospital until 2:45 q. m.
Sheehan arrested Mrs, Boyer on
charges of child neglect and Boyer
on charge of assault and battery
with intent to kill. They have
22-month-old daughter. William H.
Byrne, Is North Highland avenue,
Mrs. Boyer's father, signed bonds
for the couple. The cases were con-
tlnued indefinitely until the doctor
is able to be in court.
The doctor was charged with con-
tributing to child neglect and placed
under arrest at the hospital.
The wife wept when told of the
charge against her.
why, I never neglected my baby
a moment she said.
The wife said she met the doctor
while they lived in Hamilton in
August, 1923. when he performed a
major operation upon her.
Second Operation Performed
"We met several times after that"
she said, "and he performed another
operation upon me in Hamilton
about four weeks ago"
Meanwhile, Boyer had obtained
a job in Indianapolis and they
moved here. They had not been
here long when he was transferred
back to Cincinnati territory. The
wife and baby stayed here, the hus-
band coming home for week-ends.
Dr. Weston has a wife, son,
6, and a daughter, l, living in Ham
ilton.