Young Edward Doheny Murder ed by Private Secretary New York, Feb. 17, Edward, the son of the oil magnate Edward Laurence Doheny, was shot dead to-day at his home by his secretary, Hugh Plunkett, Plunkett, who was mentally derange ed; committed "suicide after the Edward Doheny figured in the Teapot Dome oil scandal in 1924 as a messenger and was alleged to have carried for his father $100,000 to Mr. Albert B. Fall, the then Secretary of the Interior.
Mir. Doheny and a doctor had been vainly trying to persuade Plunkett to go to a sanatorium, Mzz, Doheny summoned the doctor last night saying that Plunkett was mad. Both went to the bedroom where Mr. Doheny and Plunke: had been closeted. Plunkste shouted to them warning them not to approach, and slanumed the door.
shot rang out, the doctor rushed jin and found both Edward Doheny. and Plunkett dead.
Tt is inferred that Mr. Doheny must have Seen sino some hours previously, as only one shot was hheard.—Reuter.
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