New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-31

become intimate until after. the family nv
oconpied the Aat in Fifteenth-st. She KEPT lne
knowledge of her affection ,3f snsn;ciops
were aroused when she remained away from ~ q
home in the young mans company Tor c aaIs a. =;
Twentv-second-st. she told her children t nat
She was going into the country. sne
made visits to the nat nearly ever minated that
the family was not in need oil money. lie stiu ~
the coroner that he had an unoe living IN Clnein
cisco The body of his mother he. said,
would be buried i'll Greenwood Cemetery A.. l.,
TO a TRIBUNE reporter who visited the nat In
Ffteenth-st last evening. Alohonse said that ms
brothers and sisters we're there, but ne had not
broken the news of his mothers death 10 ide u.
They would all know it before morning he salu' as
he intended TO tell them little by niue. ne
clIned to say even TO the coroner how his mother
became acquainted with Shepard
WHO SHEPARD Is.
Young Shepard ives born i'll Saybro'K' Conn.,, III
1856 and was twenty-seven years old on juno 90
His father the Rev. =. l.. Shepard, was at one t'io
a CLERGYMAN IN the Protestant Episcopal Church'
but has not preached regularly for several years.
and has devoted all his time to the pIivate
school in Saybrook of which he is
the principal. His son Horace received good edu-
cation nj the school and at college, and after graou
alton taught for some time under his 1atner. anout
three years ago the young man came 10 New York
and secured employment in the office OF Herring =,
modest in demeanor and soon won the confluence OF
his EMPLOYERS by his steady work ana BUSINESS
like habits Shepard was an active member OF me
Protestant Episcopal Church, and soon after DIS
coming TO the city he became connected with Grace
Chapel in East FOurteenth-st,. where for long time
no taught regularly in the snnday-sehoGE ne 4yed t
Thrtieth-st, kept by a Mrs. Hamilton, ana
was great favorite with the many friends
the boarding house that lie kept up close
intimacy with his relatives at saybrook by frequent
letters The young man lived III ihlrtieth-st unul
Msy % OF this year. when he lett there suddeny
without giving any reason for so doing and without
giving his new address. IL was noticed soon after
this by his friends the Herring establishment
that he became somewha negligent of his business
there, aud that be seemed TO ne aosent-inlhoeo
and worried apGut ftS steynd a w from his
work, and suspicious began TO be aroused among
his acquaintances that he was living eXtraya-
gantly, TOR ii was known that he received financial
and apart from his business, presumably from MS
home.
HIS RELATIONS WITH THE WOMAN.
On May 20 he went TO No. 211 West Twenty
second-st with the woman whom he called
his wife, and rented furnished apartment
The couple took their meals away from their
room. They seemed to the other occupants of the
house to be extremely fond of each other and TO be
living most happily together. About a month ago
Young Shepard's mother came to visit him. and
spent the night In the house in West Iwenty-
second-st. Mrs. Shepard went away without
Not long after this the Rev; Mr.. Shepard
came TO the city and tried TO find his
sons abode from Mrs Stewards description Of the
situation ilhOut knowing the nuaber of the
house. The father failed in bis search and went
away without an mixing OF the state OF the young
mans affairs. Last Thursday Herring * Conceyed
a telegram from young Shepard saying he would be
absent from business until Monday. That was the
last word the firm heard r.n from d.a nm
was brought to them early yesterday morning. On
SATURDAY. the young man went with bis supposed
wife to Coney Island and they did not return to
their room nil late at night. He GOT a pitcher of
ice-water before retiring and that was the last time
that he was seen alive by the people OF the house.
sHEPARDs FATHER OVERCOME.
On Saturday the Rev. Mr.. Shepard came TO New
York from a Western tlip. Yesterday morning he
went to tue safe companys Office to find his and
was told the story of the tragedy. He was over
whelmed with grief and was wellniGh Frustrated by
the blow. Word was sent by tele.raph to his other
son, who is teacher in tue school at Saybrook;
but the story was not believed there TIL
second dispatch confirming the first one
the scene Of the tragedy IN West Twenty;
come so suddenly upon him that he walked
with difficulty. He stayed only a short time there
and then went to the house Of some friends at No.
la East Twenty second-st. There he was
visited by Coroner Martin he told
the Coroner that he had never heard of
the woman with whom his son had been living. and
that DO member of his family had known anything
about the relations between the two. The Old man
read the note which his son had addressed 20 HIM
aud to Mrs. Shepard over and over again In silent
writing was his sons without doubt, lie gave
directions to have the body OF the young
the Coroners questions in = staple aud straight
forward manner. but showed by every movement
and in every of his voice tine crushing effects
OF the blow be had received. tie left the city for
SayDrOOk on the IL o'clock tram flom the Grand
Central Depot.