News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-23

REV EIATIONS THAT CAME OF THE
DoI ,BLE TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK
Woman Whose Presentations Made Many
Victims.

There seems to be something of a pc
cuIlar story attached to the double
tragedy IN New York city. The bodies
OF Horace Sheppard and his supposed
wife, otherwise Mrs. Kelly, were found
dead III bed, with bullet wound through
the head of each, in room in West
IWenty-secOnd street, on Monday morn
ing. Sheppard is a young man, and the
son OF a Connecticut clergyman. and
occupied a good position in society. be-
ing respected by all who knew him. The
woman was twenty years his senior. and
the mother of a large family. The two
were infatuated with each other, but
knowing that Shephard's friends would
not sanction their marriage the tragedy
followed.
Sheppard left note stating that they
were married, and requesting that the
two be buried in one grave.
For few days there was a great nys-
terry as to who the woman called Kitty
Sheppard was, but the st. Louis papers
tell the story and say that "Kitty."
whom young Sheppard shot in their
room at 211 West Twentv-second street
before killing himself, had been known
as Mrs. NOullaire The affair recalled
at once st. Louis sensation of old
date. Mrs. sVoullaire's maiden name
was Kate Watts, and she was a step
daughter of man whose name is known
all over the West. He was a member of
the firm OF Murray, LiIler & Co.,
original proprietOrs of the notorious
Missouri State Lottery. a concern with
franchise from the State that enabled
1t tocontinue business despite the efforts
of all the law-maling and law-executino
powers up to few years ago.
Seymour ID. VOullaire was a scion OfOne
of the old families of st. Louis. He be-
came prominent criminal LAWYER. He
was OF very swarthy complexion and ex-
ceedingly handsome He paid a great
deal OF attention to his dress, and always
wore in the street a spotless linen collar
large enough to turn down on the out
side OF his coat collar. He was fond of
society, and was very much troubled
over sl1glt limp, which he fancied in
tcrtered with his social success.
From one who was present is learned
the singular story of his marriage to
Miss Watts. At an evening party some
one asked young NOulIaire why he didn't
getmarricd. The answer was, 'Nobodv
Will have me = Miss Watts, who was
standing near, said laughingIv, 'TIl
have You" Later in the evening a few
serious words were spoken between
them, and they We're married about two
weeks afterward. This was twenty years
ago.
Noullalre rose in his profession aud
became City Attorney. They lived hap
PLY together for nine years. and then
scandals arose about the wife. Her
name was associated in turn with the
names of three rich gamblers. After
that the name of a man now living in
New York city, and one of its wealthiest
citizens, began to be banded about
with hers, and there was q scene be-
tween him and Voullaire, in which
charges We're made by the husband aud
acknowledged to be true by the other
man.
The Noullaires separated. VoulIaire
constantly haunted the neighborhood of
his wltes separate residence. One day
he saw Charles Ruth, a clerk in the
Post office, leaving the door, He con-
fronted Ruth, and both drew pistols and
fired. Ruth was wounded in the head.
A few weeks later they met again in
Fourth street, and exchanged shots.
Both were hit.
Ruth and the woman went offtogether
to Lawrence, Kansas, where they were
known as Mr. and Mrs. Ruth. The yo-
man took with her one or both of her
sons by VOullaire. Scandals arose i'll
Lawrence. One morning Ruth was
found dead setting on a piano stool in
his parlOr, with writing materials and
several finished letters, and one uncom-
pletcd letter before him on the piano.
The family physician, DR. Medlicott
was accused OF poisoning Inn, with the
cOnnivance of the woman. Then fol-
lowed the long and sensational Ruth
murder trial. 1t was shown that Ruth
had died from morphine, but the weight
of evidence was that he had administered
the drug himself
After that followed the struggle of
Seymour d. Voullaire to get a divorce
and the custody Of his boys or of one of
them. He won the suit. He remarked.
Five years ago he died and his widow
and one child by her are now in New
York. The children have been partly
supported out of their fathers estate.
Mrs. VOullaire had been lost sight oftil
Mondays tragedy.
kitty and Horace Sheppard" are not
to be buried together, as the joint letter
they left requested. Although the
father of the young man was willing to
bear the expenses of burying the woman,
and the burial certificate granted by
Coroner Martin is in the name Mrs. II.
D. Sheppard" her sons, Alphonse and
Belmont Voullaire, were unwilling to
have her body taken to Saybrook.
They directed that it be buried in Green
wood. The body of young Sheppard