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Show SHOOTS WIFE AND CUTS SELF Prominent Chicago Motor t Distributor and Woman f Critically Wounded MIAMI. Fla. Feb. 27. Edgar C ! 1 rely, president nnd treasurer of n Chicago automobile sales company. H nh,.t his wife, probably fatally and CUl H his own throat at a hotel hern Sunday. 1 according to tho police. Both were ilia il-ia ken to a hospital where It was said their condition was critical EXPLANATION KVC'klNG 1 After firing three bullets Into his wife's body, Frady attempted to cut H his throat with a safety razor blade. H Failing in this, he resorted to a knife H to complete tho act. H j Tb. proprietor of the hotel, attract- j od to the suite by the sound of the H jshot, told police that Mrs Frady was H I still conscious when ho entered and H .had declared to him that "Ho did It." pointing to the bathroom whero her H husband's body lay H The police reported they were un- H able to find an explanation for Frady'-1 actions other than that the couple had quarreled repeatedly during the past two days. M FFI RFT RRKAKPOWN INDIANAPOLIS, Ind . Feb. 27. mmW Edgar C Frady of Chicago, who prob- H ably fatally wounded his wife and then H attempted suicide at Miami, suffered a nervous breakdown several weeks ago, and had gone to Miami to recuperate H .....nihil, t.i 1 rank J. Morrison, secrc- H I t.iry-troajsuror of the Cole Motor Car 'company here. Mr Frady was president of a large H 'automobile distribut ng agency In Chi-Icago, Chi-Icago, handling Cole motor cars and (had been prominent In the automobile H Industry for many years. H |