William R. Jones
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

William R. Jones

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · December 12, 1952

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A distraught factory worker, William R. Jones, was held here today for investigation of first degree murder after he electrocuted his wife in a bathtub and vainly tried to kill himself. The 62-year-old man told how he killed his wife, Barbara, also 62, legless after two operations, in a "mercy" murder-suicide pact.

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