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Show LOVERS WILL PAYENALTY Execution of Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher to Be Held Today, FRANKLIN, La., Feb., 1. (CD For the second time within 13 months, capital punishment today reached out to claim the lives of an American married woman and her illicit lover a double forfeit to the state for the murder of the woman's wom-an's husband. One year and 19 days after the electrocution of Ruth Brown Snyder Sny-der and Henry Judd Grav at Sing Sing, Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thomas Dreher wore awakened at dawn today and prepared to be' i "hanged by their necks until dead" I for killing James Leboeuf. j The executions were scheduled to ' take place' between noon and 3 p.m. After twenty years of married life with the manager of the Morgan Mor-gan City electric light plant, during which she bore hrce sons and one daughter. Mrs. Leboeuf became enamored en-amored of the family doctor, lllieit Affair Then for nine years she and Dr. Dreher, 10 years her senior, carried on their illicit courtship. Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher finally fin-ally decided that the former's husband hus-band was standing iit the way of their happiness. On the night of July 1, 1927. they invited the unsuspecting husband to accompany them on a picnic, lured him into a rowboat on a fishing fish-ing lake' and shot him from another boat. , |
