New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-08
FROM SLEEP TO DEATH.
A BALTIMORE LAWYER KILLED IN BED
L L. coNRAD's WIFE, cRAzKD WITH PAIN, SHOOTS


L L. coNRAD's WIFE. cRAzxD WITH PAIN, SHOOTS
HIM AT MIDNIGHT.
BALTIMORE. Aug. I'll. L. Conrad lawyer oe
this CITY, prominent In professional ard social life
was shot and killed last night BY his wife neas
Gyndop, In Baltimore County. about twenty-five
miles from this city. Mrs Conrad has been suffer-
ing from illness tor some time. accompanied by evi
dences of insanity. She was visited yesterday By
her mother and brother who left her In the after.
noon In quiet condition.
A dispatch to The Day from Reisterstowp, Nd,
says:" At Bloomfield. the Worthington homestead,
IN Worthington Valley, two miles from this plsoeb
one of the mcst frghtfu tragedies was enacted aso
night that ever shocked community. The invalid
wife of Louis Lawrence Conrad the weIl-kn0wn
Baltimore lawyer. In it of insanity caused by dis
ease shot her husband, who was sleeping BY her
side, through the head. killing him instantly. The
affair in all its details is sad and shocking. MrA
Cor rad is q cousin of Samuel Hanson, who 10
Gently killed Charles Ridgely While in Howard
County. She is also cousin of John Tolly Johns
and his brother Richard, both of whom committed
suicide. All were suffering from insanity ct the
time"
"Mr. Conrad and his wife. who has been con-
ir1ned invalid for years, came TO Bloomfield where
her mother. Mrs. Mary G. Worthingfon and hes
brother John Toly Worfhington, live. on Saturday,
to spend the summer. Mrs. Conrad has for years
suffered exceedingly from neuralgia of the stom achs
which has produced nervousness and insomnia hrs
Worthington brought Mr.. Conrad's mail to him
from Baltimore last evening, aud when be got
home Mrs Conrad was almost frantic with pain.
While Mr. Conrad was reading his letters Mr..
Wortbington held his sister N his arms. She fre-
quently called her husband to come to her. and
said she could not bear to have him leave her,
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so nervous that she could not sit down and sbs
walked up aud down thu room. She took little
cream, and then held her bowed face in her hands,
saying it made her pain even more intense. Mr..
Conrad asked her several times how she felt. Oh,
my love- she answered. my nervee are setting me
Wild Shortly after that Mr. Conrad gave Ler an
inhalation Of oxygen, which had been recommended
by Philadelphia doctors. This was given her for
FIVE minutes
About 10 o'clock Mr.. Conrad gathered mp tho
things 10 used for her comfort during tho nights
and started up stairs, carrying hght, while hs
brother.in-Iaw followed, carrying Mrs. Conrad Id
his arms. He then left tie room and Mrs. Worth
iugton and Mr. Conrad proceeded to prepare tho
invalid for bed. Between 10 and IL o'clock Mr..
Wortbington went to the door Of the sick chamber
and got lamu to set IN the haIl-door Mr.. Conrad
gave it to him and this was the last time be ever
saw his brotber-in-law alive. About 1920 o'clock
Mrs Conrad ran screaming into her mothers room,
which adjolns the one occupied by herself and her
husband. She was terribly excited and cried GUS
Oh. my God, have hurt Mr. Conrad.~
"Mrs Worthiugton, who is old and infirm. GOT
out of her bed apd followed by her daughter, pro-
ceeded to the other ROOM There to her horror, she
found her son-n-law dead, the blood trickIing from
a wound IN the head back of the lett ear, ana
Remington revolver OF thiriy-two calibre on tho
bed. Death had been instantaneous Ihe relations
between Mr.. Conrad aud his wife have always been
of the most tender a-d friendly character. They
had been married fourteen years
Mr.. Conrad was q native of New-Crleans and
son Of William II. Conrad. Secretary Of ar auflng
the Fillmore administration. ~ Z. .t.-