Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-15
Horrible TRAGEDY.
WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND
SUICIDE OF TIE MuRpEREa.


Last evening about seven O'Clock two dis
charges of pistol were heard in West Ran
dolph street Between Peroria and Sangamon
streets, and Aid Ellithrope, who was near
by. rushing TO the spot, found Edgar A. H.
,ersol, tender of Randolph street bridge,
with A pistol shot in his breast, and his wife
also shot in the breast, staggering away, while
the instrument of death was still in the muir
derer's grasp.
Mrs. Ingersoll was taken to the house of
Mr.. Shaw, cornor of Randolph and Peoria
streets, where Doctor Freer, Brownell and
HOLSTER were called to her assistance, and
at last accounts she was still alive, with a
possibility of recovery She was shot in the
left breast between the third aad fourth rib.
Ingersoll was conveyed to the West Dl-
vision Police Station in the Market House,
and attended by the same physicians, but ne
never spoke, and died about eight o'clock
tie was shot III about the same place that his
wife was. The pistol was one Of Aliens Re-
volvers.
In his pocket was found S33 in gold, and
letter of which the following is literal
copy, and shows that his action was premed-
itated. 1t was written in pencil on both
sides of small piece of paper, and is intend-
cd for a brother residing in this city who has
Il carriage shop on Canal street.
CHIcAGo, November 18th 1880.
DEAR BRoTIER CHARLEs-I would like
very much to see you, but time will not per-
nit will ask one favor of you and the last.
beg of you to sec that Lizzie and myself are
Buried, and together. / wish You to take
Ida Amelia Ingersoll in your care and give
her my gold watch that she may have 1t as
present from her father am very sorry
to think that / am about to commit this offei
deed But my feelings are more than can
express Life is swete but had sooner part
with it than be separeted from one that
love SO dear no one can know my feelings
their are beyond my reach to explain | shall
fetch this to close by bidding you adlew
Give my love to father and mother and Bro
theirs Your Brother.
EDGAR L. INGERSOLL.
Upon his person was found two cheap pub
LEGATIONS, with the following titles, which APP
pear to have been recently purchased aud
read. From these the miserable man may
have received the idea of his desperate crime,
or by them wrought up to its commission
MISS JANE CLARK, THE BURIED ALIVE; Or, Con-
lcSSlOil vi % SuiSidO. uOAohOu ~ ~ 49,
Rulison. Queen City Publishers House,
1857 Main Street.
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES AND HORRIBLE
DISCLOSURES of a Louisville Policeman
Written himself.
The little Ida Amelia referred TO in the let
ter is an infant of about year and half old
She is indeed brought to sad orphanage.
1t appears that the principal actors in this
tragedy have been on terms of disagreement
for some time. She had had commenced a
suit for divorce, Messrs. Rae &Brother Ma
sonic Temple, being her counsel. Ingersoll
had Just returned from Cincinnati, where he
had found her brother, Charles |. Morrison.
and brought him here to endeavor to effect a
reconciliation betwenn them. Last evening
he called for her and they went out for a
walk, and on their return, and just before
reaching her residence, he fired. What their
conversation was, no. one knows, but it is pro-
bable she persisted in her determination to
live apart from him.
An inquest will be held this morning at
ten O'Clock, but is not probable that any new
facts will be elected. The guilty one in this
terrible scene has passed beyond human pun
Chicago Free Press, Nov. 8.