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Alfrado Coldona murder & suicide... trapeze artist...
Alfrado Coldona murder & suicide... trapeze artist...
Item # 713513
July 31, 1937
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 31, 1937
* Alfredo Codona & Vera Bruce murder suicide
* The last of the flying Codonas aerialists family
* Circus entertainers - famous trapeze artists
* First to perform the triple somersault in the air
The top of page 3 has a two column heading: "Codona, Trapeze King, Shoots Ex-Wife, Kills Self" with subhead and photos of the two involved. (see images)
Complete with all 24 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, Small library label on the front page, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: Alfredo Codona (October 7, 1893 – July 30, 1937) was a Mexican trapeze artist who was a member of the world-famous "Flying Codonas" and was the first aerialist to continually perform the triple somersault. Alfredo came from an itinerant performing family whose origins lie with the Codoni family in the Italian speaking area of Canton Ticino in southern Switzerland.
Codona's distress about his second wife's death and inability to perform led to the deterioration of his third marriage. On July 30, 1937, he committed suicide by gunshot in Long Beach, California, after shooting his third wife, Vera Bruce, during a division of their property in front of her horrified mother. She died the next day.
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