Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-08-16
A SAD CASE.
l.. l.. Conrad a Prominent Lawyer n,
Baltimore Aecidently Shot by HI.
wife.

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Baltimore Aecidenuy Shot by Hi.
wife.
a dispatch from Baltimore Nd
SAYS. L L. Conrad, lawyer, prom.
inent in professional and social sircles
was shot and killed by his wife. near
Glyndon, in Baltimore county. Mrs
Conrad has been suffering from illness
for some time, accompanied bv
evidences of insanity. Conrad was a
native of New Orleans, and the son of
Hon. William H. Conrad, secretary of
war during Fillmores administration.
The wife, who had been a confirmed
invalid for years, came to Bloomfield,
where her mother, Mrs. Mary G.
Worthington, and her brother, John
Tolly Worthington, live, Saturday to
spend the summer Mrs. Conrad has
for years suffered excessively from
neuralgia of the stomach, which has
produced nervousness and insomnia.
| Worthincton took Conrad's mail to
him from Baltimore last eavening.
and when he got home Mrs Conrad
was almost frantic with pam. Wnile
Conrad was reading his letters,
Worthington held his sister in his
arms. She frequently called her hus-
band to come to her and said she could
not bear him to leave her. When tea
was announced Mrs. Conrad said she
was so nervous she could not sit
down, and she walked up and down
the room. She took Titled cream,
and then held her bowed face in her
hands, saying it made her pain even
more intense. Mr. Conrad asked her
several INES how she felt oh my
love she answered, my nerves are
setting me wild Shortly after that
Conrad gave her an inhalation of
oxygen, recommended by Philadelphia
doctors. This was given her for five
minutes. About 10 o'clock he gather
ed up the things he used for her com
fort during the night and started up
stairs, carrying light. while his
brother-in-law followed carrying
Mrs. Conrad in his arms. Her
brother then left the room, and Mrs.
Worthington and Conrad preparded
the invalid for bed. Between 10 and
IL Worthington went to the door of
the sick chamber to get lamp to set
in hall door Conrad gave it to him,
and this was the last time he saw
Conrad alive.
About 1920 Mrs. Conrad ran
screaming into her mothers room,
which adioins the one occupied by
herself and husband She was terri
bly, excited, and cried out: 20 my
God / have hurt Mr.. Conrad. Mrs.
Warrington, who is old and intirm,
got out of bed and, followed by her
daughter, proceeded to the other-room.
Here to her horror, she found her SON
in-law dead the blood trickling from
a wound in his head back of the left
ear, and Remington revolver of 81
caliber on the bed Death had been
instantaneous. The relations between
Conrad and his wife had always been
of the most tender and friendly char
acter They had been married four
teen years.
A special to The Day gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the tragedy: At
Bloomfield, at the Worthington
valley, one of the most frigtful TRACED
les was enacted last night that ever
shocked this community. The invalid
wife of Louis Lawrence Conrad, a
well known Baltimore lawyer, in
fit of insanity caused by disease, shot
her husband, sleeping by her side,
through the head, killing him instant
ly. The affair in all its details is sad
and shocking. Mrs. Conrad is a
cousin of Samuel Hazen, who recently
killed Charles Ridgeley while in
Howard county. She is also cousin
of John FOLLY Johns and Richard
Johns, brothers, who committed
suicide. All We're suffering from in.
sanity at the time of the tragedies