Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-30
PACIFIC COAST.


| hEWScOy n NeW Tacoma.
NEW TACOMA, May 29.-This morning
at about 1870. Tacoma was shocked b,
double tragedy Of the most distressing
character. Thomas Rector shot hi
wife in the head with single barrellet
pistol, left her for dead in q bedroom
up stairs, then descended to tho dinins
room, deliberately reloaded his pisto
and shot himself through the head and
Tell dead upon the spot. He evidently
placed his right arm with the pistol in
hand against the decreasing. and lean.
ing his head against the muzzls of the
pistol, fred the fatal shot, the ball pass
ing directly through and falling on the
other side of the room. Mrs. Rector
was in an upstairs room, Just inside,
with her side toward tho entrance.
Her husband placed the pistol against
her head just back Of the ear, the ball
passing between the two tables Of the
occipital bone at the base of the brain,
and there lodged. The surgeons probed
to the depth of six inches. She fell for
ward and was able afterwards to 90
down the stairs. When reaching the
door she fell outward onto the porch,
her groans soon after attracting the at
tention of neighbors. She still lives
with but light chances of recovery. At
ter lying senseless for about two hours
she said to her father, tom did it; be
shot me-" The ceroner's Jury are still
IN session. The family is mostly highly
respected. Mrs. Rector being daughter
of DR.. A. Walters, the postmaster at
Tacoma. and they have the heartisst
sympathy of largo circle of friends
Three bright, interesting children are
orphaned by this sad affair. On Thurs
day week they buried their youngest
child, Mona, little girl of three years.
since which time Mr.. Rector has been
very despondent, at times taking large
doses of choral, and numbers attribute
the act to Temporary alienation of mind
In his .pocketbook was found this
6 Will Rainier lodge see me buried by
the side of Mona? American lodge of
Humboldt will make the outlay good, tr
should; $50 p. M, two ounces chloral."
As he took single -barrelled pistol
last night from the store of Hanson &
Co., such a note seems to have meant
only suicide. This morning he went up
stairs perhaps to say goodbye to his
wife, who was packing his
trunk preparatory to bis departure to-
morrow on the @. w. Elder, and yield |
ing to an irresistible impulse the 81 OF
was fired. Nothing has occurred in the
history of the two Tacomas creating
such feeling.
All Ab0ut BAD Characters.l
PORTLAND, May 29.-In the Bradley
trial today defendant was put on the
stand by defense. She told about the |
same story of the murder previously
published, except that she did not kro ow
Of Browns being chloroformed: but all
happened after she had gone to bed,
and that next morning Dolly Adams ac-
,used herself of the murder. The story
is almost verbatim the same as the
statement of Pete Sullivan to Capt Lees
shortly after his arrest in San Francisco
Sullivan WAS called by defense, but his
testimony was ruled out. Court ad-
journed till Wednesday morning.
Early this morning a crowd of rouehs
and lewd women were in bathing at
Ross Island. Peter Slice, keeper of a
saloon on a scow ct the island, and
Mary Sanders, an inmate of Nancy
Boggs dance house, won't in together,
and were drowned. The bodies were
soon after.
At half-past this afternoon Geo.
Williams, barkeeper in the Shade sa-
loon, went into the brothel of Bridget
Gallagher on Second street, near Tay-
lor, and abruptly asked one of the in
mates, Minnie Miller, to marry him.
She refused, when he drew revolver
and shot himself, one inch above the
heart. The ball prob IDLY struch lib,
and glanced around. A physician
probed, but could not find the bullet
Williams is very weak, and the chances
for his recovery are not so good as for .
fatal result.
A Sick Editor.
SAN PRANcrsoo, May 29.-Frank Soule,
the veteran journalist, is seriously i'll at
his residence in this city.
No Call.
SAN FBANcIsco, May 29.-The Produce
Exchange held no call to lay. being q
half holid.y; hence no market quota
tions.
Smallpox and a Collision.
SAN FgANoIsco, May D.-The ship
Oneida, from Hong Kong, with 20 Chi
nese passengers, was found to have three
cases of smallpox on board, and was
placed in quarantine this morning.
The regular freight train of the South
srn Pacific and the special freight COL
lided near Callente. Eight employees