The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-18
THE sToUGHToN SHOOTING AFFAIR.

THE sTOUGHTON SHOOTING AFFAIR.
0rrin s. Marshall, tho Jealous Husband, Kills
Himself-His Motives, as Shown by tho
Letters he Left.
The sequel to the Stoughtou tragedy of
Saturday evening, when Orrin S. Marshall
shot his wife after welded life of only
eleven MONTHS occurred In Boston, Tues
day morning, when the unhappy man COM
mitted suicide at the lodging house, SO
Pleasant street.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SUICIDE.
According to the statement of James
Sullivan, who owns and keeps the house,
man called there between 12 and o'clock
on Monday noon, and asked if he could
have room. He was shown to back
room up stairs and desired particularly to
know if he should be alone. Being
answered in the affirmative, he was left
alone in the room, after paying fifty cents
for its use. A short time afterwards he
the landlord he had forgotten or wanted
something. Returning in a few minutes,
he again went to his room, where no more
was seen or heard of him TIL Tuesday
morning. The landlord knocked at his
door Tuesday morning, but though the gas
was burning slightly, there was no re-
Spouse. Further demonstrations in the way
of shaking the door and loudly calling
failed TO elicit response, and Mr.. Sullivan
climbed up and looked into the room
through window over the door, and dis
covered the man lying half dressed upon
the outside of the bed Becoming uneasy
about the man, Mr.. Sullivan forced the
door and found that the man was dead,
with a pistol shot wound near the right
eye, the fatal weapon lying by the side OF
his shoulder. Several barrels of the pistol
were empty. There were also found two
small bottles, one of which was about half
full of morphine. In his pockets were
found $32 in money and a poll tax bill
with the name of Orrin S. Marshall upon
it, by which means he was identified as the
Stoughton man who shot his wife. The
fourth district police were notified and
took charge of the property and clothes of
the deceased. A copy of the Boston Her.
aid was found in his hand, containing an
account of his crime. Coroner Foye was
called but deemed an inquest unnecessary
and the body was delivered to Undertaken
Piukham.
MARsHALLS LAST LETTERS.
Among Marshal's effects were found a
letter and business card enclosed in an
envelope addressed 40 Mrs. Ida E. Mar
shall. Stoughton, Mass. The letter was
written with lead pencil, in a nervous
hand, and its contents were as follows:
My Dear Wife My time is short | be-
gin to feel the effects or my dose of NOR
phine, and soon | will be with them that
rest from their labors have not read all
of the account in the paper, but will try
and finish it ii | am able. 1 want to be
buried beside my wife. The money which
father gave me, which / have $3.50,
please take and bury me. And now bid
you all good by.
Z. S.-After reading the whole account,
see that much of it is false. | never had
| any intention to take the life Of my wife
until she told me that she had been Of [sic I
the city with another man and went with
him for money, and she said that she had
the best time or 'bum" she ever had. and
1t naturally excited me. But had expect
ed that she had been with other men before.
But am willing TO forgive her and hope
that God will be good to her. But If |
have wife, / want her myself and not for
public property. bid all friends fare
well, and now soon pass from this life, as
am getting too much affected with the
poison to write more. ask the forgiveness
of my wife, and also of all, and also of my
faNk N,.. a. a. Il
heaven. OgRIN.
The business card had the following
written on the back of il:
Request of Orrn S. Marshall. | stayed
last night in barn in West Mansfield, and
saw the account of my doings in the Her
aid in saloon, and as | was reading it two
men came in, and thought they were de-
teetives, and so l took a large dose of NOR
phine.
THE CONDITION OF HIS wiFE-RUMoRED
CAUSE OF MARsHALL's JEALOUSY.
Mrs. Marshall, who was shot by her hus-
band last Saturday night, in Stoughton, is
dong well, and suffers very little from her
wound. 1t is now said that on Friday
morning last note addressed to SHY dear
Ida, and intended for Mrs. Marshall, was
| thrown from train of cars on the Old
Colony railroad, and picked up by one
party and shown to one or more before
Mrs M. received it. This note made an
appointment which it is alleged Mrs. NJ.
kept with an employe Of the road, the pre-
sumed author of the note This report
coming to the ears of Mr.. Marshall caused
him, it is presumed, to attempt the life of
| his wife.-B0st0n Globe.