Noah Boch's son-in-law shoots himself in suicide

F. W. ALLAIRE DEAD

FROM PISTOL SHOT

Well Known Man Killed

Himself at Home of His

Father-in-Law

Frank W. Allaire, former School Commissioner and well known to Trenton people, shot and killed himself yesterday morning at the home of his father-in-law, Noah W. Boch, with whom he resided at 34 Hillcrest Avenue. Mr. Boch declares his belief that the shooting was accidental, but the authorities call it suicide, basing their opinion on the following note which Allaire left for his wife. "If I must leave you, I might as well be dead."

Boch is said to have reproved Allaire for his failure to succeed in business and to have told him that unless he did better he would have to find another home. Allaire's friends declare his failure was because of unfavorable circumstances and not because of his lack of effort or willingness to work.

FOUND DEAD IN ROOM

No one in the house heard the shot, and the first the family knew of the tragedy was when Allaire was called to breakfast. He made no response and Boch went to the room. There he found the body of the dead man stretched across the bed, with a bullet wound behind one ear. Allaire was still alive but he died before the arrival of Dr. Horace G. Norton, the family physician.

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He was superintendent of the Hattersley Piano Manufacturing Company for fifteen years, severing his connection with the firm about six years ago. He at one time conducted a piano store with J. C. Rittenhouse, but within recent years he assumed the superintendency of the American Porcelain Works, owned by his father-in-law. He was for a number of years a member of Trinity P. E. Church, and was at one time superintendent of the Sunday School. He is survived by a wife, who was Bessie Boch, and two children, Franklin and Kathryn. He was 52 years old.