 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas   L.P. Gathright 15 July 1874 - 10 June 1916 M.E. Gathright 25 October 1878 - 29 January 1937 w/o L.P. Gathright Muskegee Oklahoma News July 10, 1916 "WAS TOO HANSOME." Sherman, Texas, June 9 - Because she regarded her husband as too attractive to other women, Mrs. L.P. Gathright poured a quart or more of concentrated lye on his face and body while he slept early today, burning out both his eyes and badly burning and disfiguring his body. "I did not want to kill him, but I did want to put his eyes out and spoil his handsome face so he would not be attractive to other women, so I poured the lye on him." is the statement the sheriff said she made to him today. Gathright, who is 45, and who owned a restaurant here, it is said, will recover, but will be totally blind. He requested his wife be not arrested.
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