Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-10-16
Murder and Suicide.

called at the Office, and asking Tor y. NJ Glad'
den, guest at the hotel, was told that he was
at diuner, and was shown to his room on the
third floor to await his coming. They met IN
this room and had conversation, the mlDut e
Of which will never be ascertalucd, and which
ended u the woman rushing fom tho room.
screaming 10 horror ct the blood which poured
| from a ghastly wound 10 her throat. She ran
through the corridors to the landing, distance
Of some twenty. five feet, where she was caught
by DR.. Alexander Mckay, who has a room ca
The same floor. He exclaimed, "Why, womanl
what's tho matter? to which she attempted to
breathe reply, but ere she did SO her limbs
gave way and the Doctor laid the liteless form
upon the floor. His impression was that 1t was
hemorrhage of the lungs, but as he laid her doWo
| he noticed that her throat was cut. lie stopped
| to examine the wound, and as he did so man.
also bleeding at the throat, rushed through the
corridor, and, throwing the Doctor aside, threw
his body directly upon that OF the woman, and Ia
such way that his wound oyerlapped that 10
her neck, and their life blood commlngled IN ore
stream. With bis dying expratlons he kept
tracing out some names with his fingers, whloh
he kept moistened with blood. The hand re.
fused to obey, and it was Maud and George
! that he was trying to write with carminc ink.
| Those words remain unwrtten forever AZ
soou as the horror stricken inmates had gathered
| about some one had The courage TO separate
| the dying and dead. The woman was stonn
dead, but the mans life continued to bubble
| forth from the wound in his neck. lie died,
however, within very few minutes. Deputy
Coroner Korn was early upon the scene, and.
no one claiming the bodies, he ordered them
| sent to the Morgue. Officer James Lennon
happened along at tho time, and the JOB was
CONSIGNED to his care The woman was removed
to tbs wagon first a cloth having been thrown
over the head to hide its ghastnc5s. Tie mans
| body was just being lifted 10 the wagon. wheu
strange man was noticed to hasten forward,
| gather few words OF information from thn
crowd, and then burst forth into Hood OF
| tears. lie appeared to know by INTUITION
| aod without waiting to assure himself, that
the woman was his wife. They begged HIM
| 10 make sure Of it, and finally he made bold
enough to raise the cloth. Tncn gaspng out
the words, 20 God it is my wife j. ho fell
hack fainting into Korn's arms His grief was
| q most pitful sight. The clothing OF tho wo-
man was then searched moro with view oil
| finding something that would explain the nur'
| der than with any other idea. Her Jewalry--
q plain gold chain and lockGt, bracelets, two
rings and carrings-werG in turn gwen to tho
husband. Iu her pocket was found MINIATURE
hkcucps Of herself, and upon seeing this thr
| strong man shed copl0uS tears, and covered l6
| with kisses. Both bodies wcro then takcu 10
| the Morguc, MIR. Bell, for such was the Srang'
cr's name, accompanying and making arrange
ments with an undertaken to care Tor 'h' BODY
| Of his wife after the lrqucst
| A reporter subsequently drew irom Bel! tho
| following facts concerning his wife:
| lie had been married some three years and
they had one child, which died. They had been
| 4 I-.l. trroA
himself being brakeman, and coming holno
| every nigh, as he says. lie hssknown GLADDEN.
some time, he says, and states he was formerly
| Marshal of OSkaloosa. AS to his having lmprop.
er relations with his wife, Bell says he never sus-
pectad such thing always believing 10 his Wtc'S
fidelity and purity, aud regarding GLADDEN. as
| friend who would be the last man 10 the world
| to undermine him. A couple OF weeks or 50
ago his wife told him she was going to Ottum
wa, Iowa, ard he, suspectlng nothing, got her
PASS to that city. The next he heard from
| her was through letter dated at Chicago, stat
| ing that she was in boarding. house, had not
| been able to make at money, ANA asking hni
to send her $IO Not until theo. he sa -, did
| he suspect that there was anything gong on
| The fact of her coming to Chicago was OF Itself
! rather peculiar, aud her saying that she hadnt
| been able to make anythiDg still moro 80. To-
~,
sat himself down and wrote to her that ne would
| be here duriog the last of this week. In her
letter to him she had said he might address n
letter to her at No. 100 North Water street.
while it turns out that she had been BOARD.
ing' with Nine. Scott at that number on North
| Wells street. Accordingly, when'Bs arrived
| 10 towo Yesterday morning. he won't to the aforc-
said number on North Water street, and, OF
course, found himself am9Og the commission
houses 10 tho ncighborhood, and did not
| find his wife. Then he wandered around.
asking here and there il WOMAN OF her
description had been seen. lie hoslIy got
track of suoh woman, and brought up at
| Madame SCOTS. While not positive that 1t
was his wife, ho had by this time begun
to suspect az much, and to now mlstru5t her,
even if he did not do so before, which scVera
| of tho Madame's boardcrs insist he must have
dome if be wasn't wholly fool. At Sootts nc
heard that tho woman answering to his wllos
description had made her appearance there q
week ago last Thursday, and il he was told all
! that reportcrs were told ho would havo learned
that Mrs. B. turucd her charms to advantage.
IIe also learned that GLADDEN. had visited the
woman on several occasions. and that shc al
wavs appcarcd anxious and considerably torn
nm iD her mind at each Of these visits Finally,
he learned that she had gonc off with GLADDEN.
Thursday night, ostensibly to take The train for
Indianapolis. After that he didn't stay At
lScot,'s very long. Summonlog the Madame
husband, he Set forth to find GLADDEN., and 10
finding him, to get Iurther rack ,oa,and oa and
woman. From what GLADDEN. had dropped
in his visits to the house, Scott was pref
ly we'll satisfied where he was, epd I'M
ncdiatcly atccrcd for the hote! where GLADDEN.
was staying. lie and Bell arrived there
at about ii o'clock or thcrcabouts: Accord
inv to all the evidence attaioablc, GLADDEN. al
lrst assumed airs and didn't know Bo1 until MI
introduction thawed tho ice a cohVcrsstio,
ansucd in regard to tho particulars Of which
Bell is strangely silont Hc says however, that
he asked GLADDEN. if the woman whom ho took
away from SCOTS WAS his wife or not Snd "a II @ s''"
| his (Gsdden's) Wife, md no had takon Ec: to th"
train Thursday night.
Then be actually began to mistrust, he say
thst the womsn was his wife. Moro question:
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