EDNA ALLEN
THOMAS A. ALLEN
April 14, 1896

Globe: In one of the most shocking tragedies in the history of 
Arizona Thomas a. Allen murdered his wife, Edna Allen in cold 
blood at Miami, six miles north of here early today and closed 
the last bloody chapter of an unhappy marriage by blowing out 
his brains with a rifle.

Allen killed his wife without warning.  Approaching her as she 
bent over a wash tub he fired a charge of buckshot into her head 
tearing away the greater part of the skull and causing instant 
death.  As the unfortunate woman fell dead her entire brain was 
strewn over the floor.

The husband wrote a hurried note regarding the disposition of 
his property, placed the muzzle of a repeating fifle in his 
mouth and fired.

Jealously and a belief that his wife was unfaithful and a 
threatened criminal prosecution for the issuance of a worthless 
check were said to have been the cause of the tragedy.  A week 
ago Mrs. Allen filed suit for divorce against her husband 
charging him with cruelty, habitual intemperance and theats to 
kill. The summons was served on the husband yesteray and it 
is thought that he made up his mind at once to end the lives 
of both.  He had been insanely jealous of his wife and their 
quarrels had been frequent in the past.

The Allens came to Miami from Creede, Colorado having been 
married in Kansas City three years ago.



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