The New York herald., 1878-09-20
KILLED BY HER LOVER.
CINCINNATI MAN SHOOTS HIS MISTRESS
ToUn TIMEs AND THEN sURnKnDERs.

CINCINNATI MAN SHOOTS HIS MIsTREss
ToUn TIMEs AND THEN sURnERDERs.
From tho Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. ILL.,
year aGo Cham Anderson. along with his brother
Lon and ore two Others were IN that shooting
scrape In which Blackstone killed ~ George and
Plum streets Last night Cham Anderson shot Laura
Franklin. who has for two years been his paramount
but since last March she has boon In Chicago from
which she returned only last Thursday. Since that
ume-thati is since Lauras return to OiDcin nati-he
and sho have boen together, apparently happy and
friendly. Atnno O'Clock and at ten last night the Two
were seen together In friendly conversation Sixth
and seventh streets. rney pared friendly erna
Al hall-past eleven O'Clock, or little before that
hour. they again in Jack Robinson's house, No.
70 East seventh street Jack Robinson Is colorea-
all the parties were-and he - head waiter at the
Gait House and proprietor Of u low dance souse on
Robinson's at twenty minutes past cieveu three
itors-nauoly, Laura Franklin, Maud Franklin aud
Mat Williams. some xuocksd az .ho door Rob-
inson opened It, In slsppoa Chambers ANDERSON.
Laura Franklin iaugned. Anderson sAid not word,
but oommsnced shooting a Laura a. oncs Sne ran
ut her oil The wniie. -Four shots were nred
IN the house. & wasn she ran w. ou. ia.o
that caught her as sho Tell with
her head on The curb, held her head down, put Tho
He had not gono hundred yares before his victim
was q corpse. Her body was borne nfolsss to tho
q
street, in which her mother ana sister live. Her
mother, who In Nowport, was sent Tor. About
naifpass twelve O'Clock sue arrived. Whom she CO.
she throw herself forward the moor.
Persons IN the room heIped nsr up, aud ciuspng
haads she knelt over the bloody corpse, exeaiming,
lou, nay baoci Lei me 20 to her; lot me 20 TO nor
on Lord oh, Lordl have msrcyi' rheso
words sne repeated wiih The most excited and
passionate greet A sistor the dead gif was
scarcely ess dcmonstrAtive. The room was diugy
and dimly lighted, aud the dark visAgos oil thoso
silently u vsrc scarcely darker tnan the
In
construction the tenement was rather above the aver
age OF such places but The stairs marrow anu
very uncoan and the walls vi the hall botter.
inspection mad of The body Uy Coroner Siccn.
Hs derod DR.. Dunlap 70 mako posi- -morlen,, puI
the body In cnsrss Of constable and appointed tho
inquest Tor TO-DAY. In tho mean while Chambers
ANDERSON had walked over to the jail given him
summoned the auInori.ios-ihas is Nuxe Doyiaa and
his assistant, AittenaorL Word was Immediately
sent 10 Hammond stree, station snd Burke soou had
hts prisoner, Chacc Anderson who is twenty -tnree
years old and pastry cook per toe record ON the
sIate, licked ny inside iron coll He cook yet
reporter asked;-
''why did you kill that woman p,
"Aark Antony said, answered. lac,
The evil that msn do lives after them,
Tnc good Is oit iutsrred with their BONES"
The answer was riddle, and the question was
prcssed "You didn't give my brother u iair deal,"
said ne, "Snd guess ~ Keep my tongue between my
teeth" 'A giri says" answered tue reporter "that
you told her tnrcs days ago that you meant to shoot
tning. killed her because she killed me.
THIS was still a riddle, aud explanation was asked
for HIS reply was:-"Look at me pits and scars on
His isoo looked as Il marked deeply by smallpox
'i'm dying" continued ne, ''of disease she gave
years ago. out put n on tiil tonight" To this ne
answered:-''l never haa thought Of Killing her. 1
had no thought Of harming her TIL when entcrrd
halt dead us am she mooksd me- Then kRsu
the girl Three balls lodged IN her ie aide and one
wont through hor head.