Shooting Victim May Not Recover
Posted by Laurel on 04 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: 1920s, Deaths
[Adapted from the Springfield Republican, Jan. 1, 1922.]
Mrs. Leon Berube of Holyoke Shot by Roomer Who Kills Self — No Motive for Deed Known.
Holyoke, Dec, 31, 1921.—Mrs. Leon Berube of 41 Newton street lies unconscious at the House of Providence hospital tonight, critically wounded, and the body fo Frank A. Bedard, 38, of the same address, lies in a local morgue, as the result of a shooting affray as inexplicable as it was tragic. Shortly after 8 this morning, Bedard, who had been a roomer at the Berube house eight years, followed Mrs. Berube into her kitchen, shot her three times, wounding her in the breast and in both arms, and then fired a bullet into his own temple, dying immediately.
No motive for the tragedy is known. It had no witnesses. So far as known, no altercation preceded it. Edna Berube, 14, daughter of the stricken woman, who was in another room at the time, heard no conversation before the shooting began. Neither did Mrs. Laura Clark, who lives in the apartment above that occupied by the Berubes.
