| Show Doctor Dodor Slays Wife Rams Car ar Info Inlo Wall SAN FRANCISCO March 23 UP WI After a strange homicidal outburst outburst outburst out out- burst a prominent San Francisco physician was near death Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day his wife fatally bludgeoned and his year old mother-in-law mother seriously injured Police Inspector Thomas Cahill piecing together the tragedy said Dr Bernard A. A Cody year old urologist Monday night capped a placid family Ice cream party by battering his wife wIle and her mother with an iron pipe then attempting suicide Mrs Grace Cody 42 died o of skull injuries Tuesday The The- physicians physician's mother-in-law mother Mrs Mary McDevitt was in a critical condition Cahill said aid Dr Cody a few lew mi min mm- minutes utes after the tragedy was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to police r raced c d his hIs' speeding speeding speeding speed speed- ing automobile into a concrete re retaining retaining re- re taming wall Taken to emergency hospital Ingrave in ina a grave condition from Crom skull Injuries in injuries injuries In- In juries the physician was asked i if h he had struck his wife with a bloodstained pipe found in their bedroom Cahill quoted him as saying saying saying say say- ing right Police were at a loss Joss for tor a motive The outburst occurred after Dr Cody returned home with ice cream and served it to his wife and himself himself him him- self sell in n their bedroom The couple was described by as happily married A motorist told police that Dr Cody at the wheel of oC his car raced past him and crashed at full ful speed into a concrete retaining wall He lIe must have pushed it to the floorboard he reported He drove straight J into the retaining wall vall |
