Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-03-15
Terrible Domestic Tragedy.
Ndlspatch from vallejo CAL, Id

the community was thrown into tho
widest excitement by tho startling in
telligence that ]. D. Page had shot his
wife and then attempted suicide. Page
went up stairs and entered his wife's
apartments, locked the door Of the
room. locking out his two daughters.
Emma aud Malie. who were present.
The children stood In the hall-and.
heard Page open the conversation with
his wife by making certain charges
against her, which she Indignantly de-.
MED. The conversation then became
inaudible to the children, but 1t Is
thought that Page, on her denial, made
some threat, = the children next
heard their mother exclaim,
"XILL NE, THEN ; KILL, NE.
You have threatened so often to take
my life, low carry cut your threat"
The next instant came the report OF .
pistol, followed by two other shots, In
instantaneous succession. The chill:
dren, who well knew the dreadful
meaning Of the reports, Immediately
commenced to cream. James Frost,
who was In the buildings at once rushed
to the door, and throwing his weight
against 1t, burst It In. The first object
that caught his glance was Mira. Page
falling, and the blood gushing from a
wound in her neck.
PAGE LAY PHOSPHATE UPON THE CARPET.
Marshal Edgar, who was standing
almost in front OF the store, also heard
the report Of the pistol and the chill
dren scream. lie FASTENED up stairs
and entered the room at the same In
slant with Frost. Page, as he lay Oh
the floor. handed to the Marshal n
couple Of papers, which seem to DO
legal documents, and u book. The
Marshal also secured the pistol with
which the fatal deed was done. II is
six-shooter Of small size, having still
three loaded chambers.
A Vallejo Chronicle reporter hap.
pened to be standing, at the time OF
the tragedy, on the opposite side Of the
street from Frost's building, where the
shooting occurred. He saw Page
standing In front Of Van Smiths So
loon only q few moments previous to
the hearing of the pistol-shots. The
tirsr intimation the reporter had that
something terrible had occurred was
the hearing of shrieks Of women and
children up stairs in Frost'a building.
and the simultaneous appearance Of
Mr.. Frost at the street entrance blow
ing a policeman's whistle aud shout
Ing murder.
GATHERING oy TIL CROWD.
Some three or four people rushed up
stairs. Among the first was Marshal
| Edgar. In almost an instant a crowd
had gathered around the door, and
from Mr.. Frost learned that Jim Page
had shot his wife and then himself.
AS soon as permitted by the officers,
the reporter visited tue apartment
where tho horrible tragedy was COM
mitted. Constable Marley held the
door against the crowd. Upon ascend
ing the stairs, the first sight that met
tho eye were pools OF blood all over
the floor. 40
| POSITION OF TUE ACTORS IN THE TRAG-
EDDY.
Mrs. Page was lying near the head
OF the stairs, where she had fallen,
bleeding slightly from a pistol shot
wound In the center OF the neck. She
was fully conscious, but enduring q
great deal Of pain, aud only talked
with great suffering. The would-6e
murderer, her husband, lay In the
doorway OF his wifs's apartment, with
a wound In his head just below the
temple. He lay on his back. breathing
heavily, but unconscious. DR.. Ander-
son Was the first physician called. AS
soon as he arrived the wounded wo-
man was carried Into her room over
the PROSTATE form Of her husband aud
placed In a comfortable bed. The doc
tor said that Mrs. Page was In no i'm.
mediate danger. but he could not tell
the extent Of her wound until after m
examination, which she refused to al
low, unless chloroform was admins
tered. This the Doctor refused to do.
Mrs. FACES STATEMENT.
Mrs. Page said that she did not think
she was wounded In more than one
place. She said that when she discov-
cred Pages object she screamed for
Mr.. Frost. Page told her to stop her
noise, saying, mo one cab help you
now" He fired twice at her and then
shot himself. In the inside Of the room
there are
EVIDENCES OF A HARD STRUGGLE.
Blood is spattered over the wall in
many places. The door knob shows
blood on 1t. Page evidently thought
he had killed his wife before he shot
himself, for the blood poured out in a
Jet from the wound in her neck when
MIR. Frost saw her.
PAGE DIES.
At 4 quarter past eight o'clock the
light breathing of the wounded man
ceased, and James D. Page, the would
be homicide, was dead. From the
time that he was shot until his death,
he was unconscious, and did not utter
a word. Mrs. Page at the present mo-
ment (half past six o'clockh Is In a
critical condition, and life and death
hang trembling In the balance. Drs.
Walther and Anderson are In attend
ance. The efforts to reach the ball,
which lodged In the neck, have thus
far been Intellectual.