Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-14

ing the Death of the Perpetrator--.
4 Brotherly Letter TO the Now Dead
Wife.
Minneapolis was startled about nine o'clock
yesterday morning by the report that an ex.
railroad engineer named Charles Richmond bad
killed his wife and then shot himself. the
south, and took place between eight and nine
o'clock. The murdered woman, being afraid
Of her life, had passed the night with Mrs. Geo,
l.. Weaver, residing &C the number given aboYe,
and Mira. Boland, sister of Mrs. Weaver, gave
the following account which we quote from the
F,enjRg Journal
MISS BoLAND's STORY.
Miss Boland, although overcome by the
tragedy, told the following story; Il was in
the kitchen about this morning and had been
talking with Mrs. Richmond. She was quite
nervous She intended to go to Lake Harriet
to-day with Mrs. Hobiit on a picnic and start
ed out at 25 minutes of s o'clock 10 call for her
friend, bat just before going her little reice,
Edna Weaver, aged 81 years. said, Let me go,
too, auntie-' So Mrs. Richmond took her by
the hand and went ont into the yard She bad
occasion to visit the closet with the little girl
before she started, and just IS she disappeared
around the corner Of the woodshed ! heard @
shot, and then another almost instantaneously
followed 1t. / ran to the door and saw the
smoke in the chicken. coop and Charlie stand
ing in the door. just as looked saw him
PUT TIE PISTOL TO HIS HEAD AND FIRE.
He had double barreled shotgun in his left
hand and the pistol in his right. He stood for
moment after be had shot, made motion
with the shotgun as if to try and shoot himself
again, and then We an ran away for fear he
would shoot some of Us. a number of neigh
bors heard the shots and ran out of their
houses as it occurred. After q little while we
went around and found poor Eva lying on the
ground.
TIE HORRIBLE PARTICULARS.
To get down to bottom facts as closely and
rapidly as possible, the following statement
may be considered reliable: Last night about
nine o'clock Charles H. Richmond called at the
grocery store of Frank Stevens & Co., on
Eighth street, corner OF Thirteenth avenue
south, and accosting Superintendent Johnson
of the waterwo'ks, who happened TO be IN the
store, inquired If he had q shotgun. Said he
wanted 70 go hunting In the morning. MIR.
johnson could not accommodate him. From
Stevens he went to neighbor near by and was
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breech-loader, and Richmond had no cartridges,
ne said he would not take it. From this point
he went to the residence of John E, Lockwood.
No. 1916 Seventh street south, where he called
out Ed. Lockwood, ard asked him if be would
loan him his gun, saying he wanted to do o
little shooting early IN the morning. Ed.
loaned him the gun and gave him box of
caps.
THE PLANS CAREFULLY LAID.
About ten O'Clock Richmond returned 10
Stevens store and entered, leaving the gun
standing outside. He told William Anderson,
clerk. that he was going down by the new
railroad bridge early in the morning to hunt
and wanted ten cents worth of powder. Mr.
Anderson poured out the powder and as he was
accurately weighing IL Richmond exclaimed,
'Oh pour back halfofit. don't want but a
little. only want TO shoot two or three
times" No one noticed anything peculiar
about the man save that he was little quick
in his conversation. From this point he went
to the residence of Mr.. Weaver, and very evil
IDENTIFY laid down in the chicken COOP where
ne spent the night, fer his coat and hat now
lying IN the coop are covered with bits of
straw, IS if he had laid down in them.
This morning be waited from daylight until
the family had breakfasted, and, watching his
opportunity from his post of concealment,
when his wife emerged from the house and
passed around behind the wood ahed, he fired
the nrst barrel at her head, and as she
SANK HELPLEssLy TO TEE GROUND
he fred the second barrel into her poor, CULVER.
ing body. One of the shot strnck the little
girl, ss related above. and that she was NOT
killed Ia only due to the merciful interference
of kind Providence. The gun was or the ordi
nary muzzle loading pattern, and each barrel
must have contained as many as sixty "B. B. ~
shot, variety trids smaller than bucksho.
While the smoke was still curling from the
nurderous gun Richmond placed revolver tc
his temple and fred. The ball, a No. 81, entered
the skull just back of the temple and above
the right ear.
sWELTERING IN GORE.
For moment only he retained an upright
position, leaning against the door. In his
struggles he retained his hold upon his gun
and this gave the eyewitness the impression
that be vas endeavoEing to use the gun also
upon his own person. His feet slipped
from him in few seconds, and as he fell his
head laid in the doorway swimming In blood
which spouted from the ghastly hole at every
heart pulsation. The neighbors soon recovered
their presence of mind and kind hands lifted
the bleeding form of
POOR EVA RICHMOND
and carried her into the house, where she was
laid upon bed in the front bedroom, The
murdered woman was happily unconscious and
evidently did not suffer. She fingered only
about forty minutes before she bresthed bel
last. Our reporter entered the death chamber
atout an hour after the tragedy, On the he'd
was nodded the form of prostrate person GOV
cred with sheet. The covering was laid back
revealing the fsce of woman Of twenty.nine
neat, well formed and oleanly cut features
brown wavy hair and light eyes, A woman
who would have passed for beautiful in anv so
ciety. She was arranged In white robe and
50 disposed as to hide the cruel gaping wounds
The covering was reverently replaced and the
fair face shut from the idle view.
COMPLETELY RIDDLEp.
The poor woman's body upon her LETT side
literally from the crown of her head to the sole
OF her feet, is filed with shot. Ten are in the
left side of her head, one passing completely
through, three in her neck and the whole side
clear to her ankle, is pitted with the shot holes
One shot went through her foot lust above the
sole. In the boards of the shed against which
she fell on level with her head, are forty..href
shot holes, dotting the boards about circle
caused by the incorporation of her head. Below
where the second shot was fired there are bu,
nine holes, so that there must be not less thar
sixty shot in her body. The force of the sboI
was terrific, as they passed clear through tn,
inch boards of the shed and through that struc
ture into the opposite side.
BROTHERS LETTER,
Ths following letter was discovered in tht
pocket of the unfortunate lady. The letter i,
written by her brother, VINO is an agent fo
McCOrmick's reaper and is in excellent cir
cumstauces. The family, it wonld seem, ars
of excellent standing. One corner of The
letter is tinged with blood:
WRNEBAGo CRY, Aug. 8, lSS0-Dear Eva
Promised Edna when left home to write yor
at once, but have travelled night and day since
and have had really no time.
Concerning that matter, have but to say
IS wrote Edna, 1 do not want you to live with
him at all and don't intend you shall Yor
may write him you have decided to leave hin