1924: Geo. B. Hackney, killed, Mrs. Grace Dolby held, Columbus, Ohio
Woman Who Threw Acid Is Held For Murder.
(By the United Press.)
Columbus, O., May 19.-Mrs. Grace Dolby, 35, was arrested in a rooming house here, today, and held on a charge of murder in the death of George B. Hackney, a widower, and father of four children.
Jealous of his attentions to other women, Mrs. Dolby, who has a husband and four sons, threw carbolic acid in Hackney’s face in a motion picture theater last night, causing burns and shock from which he died on the way to a hospital.
Source: The Urbana Daily Courier, Urbana, Illinois, Monday, May 19, 1924; Pg. 2