SHOOTING TRAGEDY.
TRAPEZE ARTISTS’ DEATH. LONG BEACH (California), July 31. Alfred Codona, a member of the “Flying Codonas,” trapeze artists, shot and fatally wounded his wife , Vera Bruce Codona, aged 31, from whom he was estranged, and then committed suicide. He had met her at an attorney’s office to discuss her divorce suit. Mrs Codona died after a series of blood transfusions without regaining consciousness. The shooting occurred in the presence of the wife’s mother. Codona asked the attorney .to leave the room. He lit a cigarette and then said: “Vera, I guess this is the last thing I can do for you,” and fired. Mrs Codona received an interlocutory decree on June -28, and to-day s property settlement involved 50,000 Friends stated that Codona brooded over his inability to perform daring feats since a fall two years ago. Since then he had been relegated to minor roles.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 7
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148SHOOTING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 7
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