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GEORGE PINGREE SLAIN BY WIFESummoned to Lamar Home and Shot Four TimesJEALOUSY SAID TOHAVE CAUSED TRAGEDYVictim was Former Water Superintendent of This City and News Shocks Many FriendsGeorge A. Pingreo, superintendent and master mecliauic for the Denver Alfalfa Milling compauy, owners and operators of a chain of nlfalfa mills in Prowers county, was shot and instantly killed by hiB wife, Mrs. Millies Pingree, at their homo in Lamar on Friday evening.News of the tragic death of George Pingree brought a shock to numbers in this city, where he was formerly quite well known, having served as superintendent of the city pumping station dur-iug the years 1908 and 1909, and to none did the news cause greater sorrow than to the members of St. John’s Lodge No. 75, A. F. A. M., of which ho was a member in good standing at the time of his sudden taking off.Shot Four Times Four bullets entered Pingroe’s body, one above the heart, one in the abdominal region, one in the thigh and the fourth in the right leg above the knee. Immediately after the shooting Mrs. Piugree notified the police and gave herself up.‘‘Oh, I don’t know what ever made mo shoot him,” Mrs. Piugree told the under sheriff who made the arrest. “I have been sick ten days and today 1 have been crying all the time. The revolver had been in the house until about three weeks ngo, when it disappeared.“This afternoon when I was out to feed the chickens, I found it in the shed nnd brought it to the house. Yesterday afternoon I called him up on the telephone ami he reached home about G:30.“I had not got supper ready and he asked mo not to prepare auy. I do not know how to describe how I felt. 1 am just as saue now as anyone, but I remember nothing about the killing.” Coroner’s Jury Charges Hurder At the corouer’s inquest ou Saturday ♦he principal witness was Miss Rachel Mears, who lived next door to the Pingroes and was the first to reach the scene of the tragedy.“Mrs. Pingree told me that she and her husband had disagreed the night before”, she testified, “and that Pingreo had left for work that morning before he Inul forgiven her. During most of that day, she said, she had cried, fearful that her husband was about to leave her, as she said he had threatened.“lTuable to bear the suspense longer, she declared, she had culled her husbaud ou the telephone and he had reached the house about G;30 o’clock. She said she had not prepared supper and that her husband told her he did not wish auy.“She asked him, she declared, to forgive her, anil he had repulsed her. Then, she said, she shot him.”The coroner’s jury found that Mrs. Pingreo had killed her husbaud with felonous intent and information charging her with murder was filed in the district court ou Monday.Immense Crowd at Funeral Under the auspices of the Lamar Masonic lodge the funeral of George Pingree was held ou Suuda y afternoon and was attend-(Continued on Last Page)
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Rocky Ford Enterprise
Rocky Ford, Colorado, US
Fri, Jul 24, 1914
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