The Washington times., 1932-09-17
GIRL He LOVED
ABSOLVED BY
PROSECUTOR
State Counsel Convinced of
Miss AtWood'S Innocence;
Held Jewelers. Dupe
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yesterday, was carried to the
John Hall funeral parlors in
Quincy, to join her husbands.
So does the "corpseless murder
mystery" produce its dead-not
one but two--after eight days
search for a corpus deficit that
eluded dragnet, shovel, pick and
sounding board in the vicinity of
a lonely summer bungalow beside
q pond.
So does the case come to its
close, for with the suicide of
Dubois and the discovery of Mrs.
Dubois body in a crypt in her
own cellar, Assistant District
Attorney John v. Sullivan an
nounced he had written "finiS"
to his Investigations.
Miss Grace Atwood. the blonde
with whom Dubois had a ro-
nance before his wife'S murder
and who accompanied him to
the Tuckahoe IN. " home of
the couple after the woman's
death, will not be questioned.
Even if Dubois wrote her a
farewell note before he fired the
shot into his right temple, Sulli-
van will not be interested, he
said.
The fact that she signed her
name Grace Dubois" to
drivers license issued in New
York does not concern him, he
declared. 1t is up to the New
York authorities to take action
about this, if they so desire,
Sullivan said Miss Atwood had
satisfied him of her complete in
nocence of the crime.
The finding of the body of
Mrs. Dubois revealed a gruesome
tale of murder planned and ar
ranged for right under the eyes
of the victim herself. The body
was sealed in a vault dug in one
corner of the cellar two and a
half feet deep, cemented on four
sides and sealed by a cement
floor.
Dubois constructed the crypt
while his wife still lived with
him in the house, shot her
through the head with the same
gun with which he killed himself
yesterday, then buried her and
sealed the tomb without an &C
complice of any sort. police re-
lated.
Like Crazy Man"
Mrs. Dubois recently wrote a
friend, a Mrs. Gillot, of Hastings
on-HudSon, N. Y, that her hus-
band had not been himself, al
though little realizing what he
was plotting. In her letter she
wrote:
'He has been like a crazy
man on account of that other
woman. He goes down in the
cellar and works all day with
out talking to me-"
The man was making his wife's
grave as she worked in her
kitchen above him, unsuspecting
but troubled by the cooling of
his affection.
She knew of his love for Grace
Atwood. and sometimes she
agreed to step aside for the
younger woman, according to
police, but when the time for
parting came, she always changed
her mind, refused to give up her
home, and insisted that they stay
together.
Dubois eagerness to marry
Grace, whom he introduced as
his future bride only a month
after Mrs. Dubois died, was the
direct motive of the crime,
investigators declared.
Body Dug Up
The body was dug up by six
volunteer laborers working under
Police Chief Russell Dearborn, of
Plymouth. late yesterday after
noon, some four hours after
Dubois suicide in Quincy. 1t
was lying on its right side, wrap
ped in a waterproof sheet, the
legs tied with white cord.
DR.. E. D. Hill, medical examiner
of Plymouth county, declared
death had been due to a gunshot
wound entering the right side
Of the head above the ear, pene-
trating through the head, and
coming out to the left just above
the ear,
Inquests, held in strict privacy,
will take place some time next
week as a matter of routine,
Sullivan said. He returned to
his home late last night to go
back to bed, having gotten up
when he learned of Dubois
suicide to resume a search in
ferr1lntnd hu his illnncs