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Chicago, Illinois, June 16, 1936.

In an unemotional monotone, Mrs. Mildred Bolton, 46 years old, Heneherd Brunette, insisted during a police interrogation that she had neither killed her husband, Joseph W. Bolton, 40 years old, an insurance broker, nor handled the automatic pistol with which he was shot three times. Bolton was

fatally wounded yesterday afternoon in his 10th floor office at 166 West Jackson Boulevard during a quarrel

with his estranged wife. According to Assistant State's attorney Morris G. Myers, friends of the Bolton said she was

violently jealous without cause over his friendship with other women. The scene in her husband's office,

which preceded the shooting, was recounted last night by Mrs. Bolton in a statement to Myers.

She had explained before that her husband carried $5,000 in insurance with herself as beneficiary.

Her voice cold and dry, Mrs. Bolton said, quote, we were arguing loudly.

He wouldn't answer me and started for the phone.

I thought he was going to call the police and

grabbed for it, and then I saw a gun. It came from a desk drawer. We started a scuffle and the gun went

off. I didn't shoot him. He drew the gun and I never touched it, unquote. As her husband staggered

into the outer office where his 20-year-old stenographer,

Miss Andrea Hoyo, was working. Mrs. Bolton quietly notified the police and in chill tones

directed that her husband be carried to the office of Dr. I. H. Smith in the same building.

She chatted casually with the police and reporters

when they arrived, while Dr. Smith and a pull motor squad sought to save Bolton's life.

She stated, quote, this is so sad. He was a most marvelous fellow. I didn't want this to happen.

I'd like to take poison."

Her voice was equally conversational when Dr. Smith told her that Bolton had died.

But when a photographer snapped her picture, Mrs. Bolton turned on him and snarled,

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