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MRS. PINCjREH INSANE SV’licn She Shot and Killed Her Mus-In the district court at Lamar last Saturday night Mrs. Millie Pingree was adjudge*! by the jury to have been insane at tin* time she killed her husband,| George A. Pingree, the former water I commissioner of Rocky Ford, whose tragie death on the afternoon of July 17, will be remembered by readers of the Enterprise.George Pingree was superintendent of the Denver Alfalfa Milling company’s plant near Lamar at the time of the tragedy, and the evidence showed that the woman telephoned to her husband, who was busy at the mill, and asked him to come home at once. In the doorway of his home he was confronted by his wife, revolver in hand. A few words were exchanged and Mrs. Pingree commenced shooting.1 Twenty-five witnesses were examined and several, most of them women testified that they believed Mrs. Pingree to be insane. Several of them declared they had believed her to be mentally sound until after the tragedy. Since then, they said, she had told them, she was unbalanced, and they believed from some of her wierd stories that she had 1 lost her mind.Mrs. Pingree admitted taking her [ husband’s life, but pleaded ir! that the verdict stated above was re-. turned and she was committed to the ' state insane asylum at Pueblo.hand at Lamiirso impressed the jury with
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Rocky Ford Enterprise
Rocky Ford, Colorado, US
Fri, Nov 27, 1914
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