Show HUSBAND MURDERS WIFE KILLS SELF SELE AFTER 1 Howard Boocock a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Society Man I 1 Ik Principal in Double Tragedy NEt NEt V YORK TORE March farch 23 flown Howard rd Boo Boocock ock treasurer of or the Astor Aster tOI Trust t company compan last ln t nl night ht shot and killed his hilt wife 35 as she eho sat at tho the piano In n their homo home at 36 35 East Kast Seventy fourth street then Hum blew out his brains During tho the dinner hour he hc and his j wife quarreled Two wo maids Anne Annl Magnussen and Lynne Linne Johnson e served the dinner Thc They toM toil Coroner Henley that they had observed observed ob ob- served ser Mr and antI Mrs Irs Boocock and bothe both seemed e er very agitated Their voices would rise IIse as nM soon as the thc maids slipped sll from the room loom but would drop lignin again when the they reappeared Meal Suddenly Endi nd Finally after the th dessert essert had hll been Leen I served fd the meal W was suddenly Boocock arose from the table and oro ordered re e-re 11 that th his coffee coHee b be served to him alone In his hiM library Ho Ito left the room without a n wo word to his hiM wife ICe She Site In turn rose after ho had disappeared die dis ls- ls appeared and went Into the tho lie music room I where her she ehe seated leat d herself at nt the piano and commenced to play Boocock entered tilt the music room andla and I lay la upon the divan for tor five fl or six lx min min- utes I IU U Using a heavy 45 Hi caliber revolver Boocock fired d. d The fhe bullet pierced his I wife's head I Without rising from tho lie divan Boocock Boocock Boo Boo- cock turned tho the pistol against his own I II temple i Two children survive e Boocock and anel his I wife Ono One Is a bo boy S and the other Is 18 Isu isa In the tho home atthe at nt atthe u a L girl 12 Both were the time I Center of Fashionables Fashionable The Boocock home li is In the center I of ot one of ot the finest residential sections section of the city Francis Lynde Stetson t. lives I Street t. t Others at 4 East Seventy fourth u who ho live lI on the same block are Dr How Ilo howand Howard and ard John A. A McKim Samuel M. M r. r Schwab Jr Herman M M. M Mendel G George orge W. W Myles Standish Georgo M M. Clark Edward Irving Ir L L. Kempner and Melville Scholle I The home of or Mrs Jo Joseph eph Pulitzer at 1 17 j I- I East Kast t third Seventy str street lt and that th I of or Mr 11 and Mrs Ralph Pulitzer at the same address I. I almost t hade hack up till on the Boocock home Other prominent tam fam families whose homes home adjoin that of or the arc are those tho e of ot Mrs William A I Burden n No o. o 5 S n I-n East t third Seventy street Sidney C. C Bur r. r No 9 Wilbur Wllbur C e ll Fisk FIlI k Judson on Scott lo Todd cl and amI Charles I Chapin Sargent Sar tnt opposite the tho house In which the tr tragedy ed occurred arc the homes of or Mrs Croker Croler Jesse Mayer Iner Newman New New- Newman man Urb Erb Irving M. M L 1 Julian JulianI W. W Robbins Isidore sid ore S. S Korn Ralph M 1 Hyde de John N N. Ewell and Jesse Isidor I Straus traus |