Word: glencannon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Santa Barbara, Calif, last week, Mrs. Maude Louise Gilpatric, 52, wife of Author John Guy ("Mr. Glencannon") Gilpatric, found out from her doctor that she had a breast tumor. The Gilpatrics had been married for 30 years, and friends said they were an unusually devoted couple...
Author Gilpatric, whose long series of Saturday. Evening Post short stories about the walrus-mustached, Scotch-drinking Mr. Glencannon have entertained U.S. readers for more than two decades, learned from the doctor that the tumor was malignant. Then, police said, he got out a .32-caliber pistol, shot and killed her, then killed himself...
Died. John Guy Gilpatric, 54, author (Action in the North Atlantic, eight collections of Glencannon stories), and Maude Louise Gilpatric, 52, his wife since 1920; by his own hand; a few hours after they learned that she had cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif, (see MEDICINE...