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- Murdered by his wife, Isabelle Godar. Coroner's jury verdict of justifiable homicide.
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- Man Is Killed In Hagerstown; Wife Is Held
Austin C. Godar, 35, Is Wounded In Chest, Dies In Hospital
Police Say Woman Admits Shooting
Report She Fired In Self-Defense When Husband Attacked Her
(By the Associated Press)
Hagerstown, May 25 – Mrs. Annabelle Godar, 38, was detained by police tonight after her husband, Austin C. Godar, 35, manager of a local laundry, was shot and wounded fatally following an altercation between the two.
County Investigator Clarence Baker said Mrs. Godar, formerly of Roanoke, Va., admitted firing the shot, but asserted she did it in self-defense when her husband attacked her. Godar was a native of Canton, Ohio. They had lived here fifteen years.
Calls Police After Shooting
An active church worker and secretary of St. James’ School, near here, Mrs. Goadar telephoned police after the shooting and calmly submitted to arrest. She was held for questioning by State’s Attorney Martin L. Ingram.
Godar was rushed from his home in the western suburbs of the city to Washington County Hospital, where he died half an hour later of a bullet wound to the right chest.
Mrs. Godar told officers she and her husband had had domestic difficulties for several years and that he had threatened here on several occasions.
The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Sunday, 26 May 1935, page 3.
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- Slain Hagerstown Man’s Body To Ohio
Wife Denied Right to View Corpse of Austin C. Godar, She Admits Killing.
Hagerstown, Md., May 28 (AP) – While funeral services were held for her husband, Austin C. Godar, 44, whom she admitted shooting, Mrs. Annabelle Godar, 38, church worker and school secretary, remained in a jail detention room, prohibited from seeing the body.
Mrs. Godar asked to see the body at the largely attended rites for the laundry manager yesterday, but authorities denied her request, presumably because she was in a nervous condition and under a physician’s care.
Meanwhile, a coroner’s jury viewed the body and adjourned. It will reconvene, probably Friday, for the inquest. A murder warrant has been prepared for service on Mrs. Godar, formerly of Roanoke, Va.
Her husband’s body was sent last night to Canton, Ohio, his former home, for further services and burial.
Mrs. Godar said in a statement given Clarence Baker, county investigator, that she shot her husband Saturday night after he came home intoxicated and threatened to “break every bone” in her body.
Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland. Tuesday, 28 May 1935, page 14.
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