Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-28
A HUSBANDS REVENGE.
Ex-Congrsssman Thompson shoots His For
mer Bosom Friend-A Desperate
Decd Induced by His Wifss

Ex-Congrsssman Thompson shoots His For
mer Bosom Friend-A Desperate
Decd. Induced by His Wifs's
Unfaithfulness
There was great excitement in all the
towns in Kentucky Friday when it was
learned that ex-Congressman Philip 3.
Thompson had shot Walter Davis ut
Harrodsburg, Ky. Those who are intimate
with them have been expecting the trouble
for some time. Walter Davis and Philip
Thompson were bosom friends, they got
drunk together and played cards together.
Their families were wealthy, and from
their boyhood up they have helped ono
another, politically and financially. Davis
became distiller at Harrodsburg and
made money hand over fist. Thompson
drifted into politics and was elected to
Congress, first from the Seventh district
and then from the Eighth.
Davis married Miss Livernia Herring, d
step daughter of Governor Robinson,
and Thompson married Mary Garnett,
who was said to be the belle Of the Blue
Grass region. The two friends bought ad.
joining farms in Merton county and their
intimacy continued. Davis bnilt himself
princely home, and is said to have con-
tributed $4,000 in Thompson's race
against Ewell the Republican candidate
last year. Not word was whispered
against Thompson's wife till last fall when
in company with her husband and Davis
she went to Cincinnati. Thompson went
on to Washington and Walter Davis and
Mrs. Thompson, who appear to have been
on terms of intimacy, remained in the
town. They visited all the variety thea
tres in an opera carriage, and ended their
debauch in disreputable house.
When Thompson heard Of his wife's
faithlessness he disowned her, and swore
that if he and Walter Davis ever met
either of them would have to die. Davis
avoided him till Friday morning. Both
men cot on the train which leaves Har-
rodsburg at & o'clock. They met in the
smoking car. Without saying ] word
Thompson reached back for his pisto!
cession. Both balls took effect in Davis
head. His brains splattered tho car seat,
against which he was leaning. He died
without saying a word. When Thompson
saw that he had killed his bosom friend he
threw the pistol on the floor and exclaim-
ed: "This man took my wifo to Cincin-
natl and debauched her. / swOre to kill
him on sight. hope have done So"
He then ordered the train to be stopped
and delivered himself up.
This is not the first time that Phil
Thompson has killed his man. When =
very young man, his family and the
Davies family became engaged in a law
suit over some land. They had u pitched
battle in front of tho court house at Har
| rodsburg. A father and two sons on each
side, and all armed with knives and pis.
tolls, after hand to hand conflict that
lasted for nearly an hour, tho Thompsons
whipped the Davieses, killing the father
and the two sons. Phil Thompson shot
one of them through the head and his
father stabbed the other two. Phil was
the commonwealth attorney. " Little"
Phil Thompson, as his friends affection
ately called him, is ono of the mos. popu-
lar, mon personally, in Kentucky. The
sympathy is decidedly in his favor, ard
the prevailing opinion is that he will Ger
tainly be acquitted.