The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-14

SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.

Last evening about seven O'Clock two discltar-
ges of a pistol were heard in West Randolph
street, and AID. Ellithorpe, who was near by,
rushing to the spot, found Edgar Z. Ingersoll;
tender of Randolph street bridge, with pistol
shot in his breast, and his wife also shot in the
breast, staggering away while the instrument
of death was in his grasp.
Mrs Ingersoll was taken to the house of
Mr. Shaw, cornero Of Randolph and Peoria streets
where Drs Freer, Brownell and HOLSTER
were called to her assistance, and st last &C
counts she was still live, with possibility of
recovery. She was shot in the left breast be-
tween the third and fourth rib.
Ingersoll was conveyed to the West Division
Police Station in the Market Houses and at
tended by the same physicians, but he new
er spoke, and died about 8 o'clock He was
shot in about the same place that his wife was.
The pistol was one ofAllen's reyolvers.
In his pocket was found $50 in gold and q
letter of which the following is literal copy,
and shows that his action was premeditated
1t was written in pencil on both sides of 3
small piece of paper, and is intended for a
brother residing in this city who has carriage
shop on Canal street.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4, 1855.
DEAR BROTHER CHARI.Es-I would like very
much to see you but time will not permit. L
will ask one favor of you and the last. / beg
of you to see that Lizzie and myself are Bur-
ried and together. | wish you to take Ida
Amelia Ingersoll in your care and give her my
gold watch that she may have it as present
from her father | am very sorry to think
that am about to commit this otfel deed But
my feelings are more than can express Life
! is swete but had sooner part with it than be
separated from one that Hove so dear no one
can know my feelings their beyond my reach to
explain shall fetch this to a close by bidding
you adew Give my love to father and mother
and Brothers Your Brother.
EDGAR E. INGERSOLL.
! Upon his persons was found two cheap pub
LEGATIONS with the following titles, which ap-
pear to have been recently purchased and read
From these the miserable man may have re-
ceived the idea Of his desperate crime or by
them wrought up to its commission:
MIsSJA CLARK THE BURIED ALIVE: or Con
| fessiol Jra Suicide. Published by II. NJ Ruli.on.
| Que City Publishers House :II51s. Main street.
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES AND hoR61BLR
| DISCLOSURES of ii Louisville Policeman. Written b.
| himseIf
| The little Ida Amelia referred to in the let
ter is an infant ofabout year and half old
She is indeed brought to a sad orphanage.
1t appears that the principal actors in this
tragedy have been on terms Of disagreement
for some time. She had commenced a sui;
for divorce, Messrs. Rae & Brother Masonic
Temple, being her counsel. Ingersol had
| just returned from Cincinnati, were She had
found her brother, Charles /. Morrison, and
brought him here to endeaEor to effect recon
citation between them. Last evening he call
ed for her and they went out for walk, and
on their return, and just before reaching hel
residence, he fired. What their conversation
was, no one knows but it is propable she per-
sisted in her determination to live apart from
him.
An inquest will be held this morning at ten
o'clock, but lit is not probable that any new facts
will be elected. The guilty one in this terri
bic scene has passed beyond human punish
ment.-[ Chicago Free Press, Noe. Z.
0yThe old liners say they are opposed to
all chartered monopolies, yet Bright, Willard,
| Kent, Robinson, Dunn and Tom Bowling,
have taken all the stock in the new State
Bank! The above illustration of the old line
creed puts us in mind of Willard. who preach
es temperance but practices drunkenness! Go
it boots!-[ Putnam Banner.
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