The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-13
IN 1KsAHs wonArs TRIPLE MURDER

IN INSANE WoxAFs TRIPLE MURDER
drs. DR.. Gardner Kills Her husband,
AseCh I'D an& -Cxazed
hJ Jenleay. - .,<~~...~ /,
Form the Chicago Herald, Nou.7. |,
No. II Latin street, just few doors south Of
Madison. was the scsne. shortly after O'Clock
last evening, OF tragedy terrible III its character
and fun Of mystery and p.tllos in Its particulars
and incidents The decd II one that will long be
remembered In the neighborhood; it was NO unex-
pectcd. 50 startling, aud apparently 50 causeless
About four years ago Dr.. Schuyler Sullivan
Gardner aud his wife. Dclls NJ. Gardner,
moved to this city from Wadena. Mimi,
where aboat nine yesrs ago they were married.
In July last they rented the house above mention
ed Previous to that time they boarded ut g o.
den avenue, one Of the buildings of the handsome
stone block fronting Union Park. Recently they
rented to Mr.. Baker and his wife the first floor
of II Latin street; the Doctor and his wife, Jennie
Pearl their little daughter, fifteen raonths Of age
and Mrs. Gardner. his mothcr-in-law. a lady
about sixty years Of age. occupying the second
floor. few minutes after4 o'clock last evening |
DR.. Gardner started to leave his hu1ae for Rock
Fails. Ill. On leaving the parlor, with a small |
vAlise in one hand and box containing an cleo
trio battery In the other, his wife asked him to |
wait till she brought the baby for him to kiss 1t
good-by. After doing soeshe hurricdly piae |
the babe in its cradle, and, as the Doctor was |
descending the winding stairs and just where they
rather sharply turn, ex posing full profile Of his
face and head, she drew Z Blue Jacket seven |
chamber twenty two caiiber revolver and fired |
two shots at him II rapid succession. One took |
effect just under the left ear and the other IN q.
line above it near the top Of the skull He fell to
the foot Of the stairs his head resting on the hail
carpet about three feet therefrom When found
there few minutes afterward he was dead. On
seeing him fall she suddenly wheeled around, and
running to the crib W here her babe was lying
sent bullet crashing through Its little skull. The
ball entered just below tho left temple, and
death very shortly followed. The frenzied wom-
an then directed the pistol toward her own head,
smptying Ill its chambers except one One ball
entered near the breast-bene, tore its way up
through the lgaments Of the neck and came out
near the lobe Of the LEFT ear; another was found
by the physician At the County Hospital lodged
Ia the hair Of the head near the top CT the skull,
on the right side, making only a slight abrasure
in the skull; the third hatened the kull, max
ing All ugly wound, but not penetrating to the
brain. She was removed to the County Hospital
by the Lake street police wagon, WHERE 1t is said,
she will die, not however much from the effects
! Of her wouads as from her nervous aud feeble
| condition, the results Of sickness.
After this murderous fusillade, Mrs. Gardner
laid away the revolver in its box and threw it un
der the sofa In the parlor. She then rushed down
stairs, and knelling her hasb and called upon
him to speak to her. Hearing NO response from
him she akai n rushed up stairs lifted her badly,
now In the list gasps Of bt cath, from its crib
pressed 1t to her bosom and ran with 1t out the
doors and acrsss the street to the residence Of
Mrs. 4. l.. Kennedy. She excitedly runs the bell.
and on Mrs. Kennedy opening the door she fran
tically cried:
''Oh, Mrs. Kennedy, what ais my baby, 1t has
been gaspieg SOP
IL don t know, but come J." said Mrs. Kennedy
kindly.
! Mrs. Gardner went and sat in chair offered
| her, still asking what was the matter with her
baby. Mrs.. Kennedy saw ito little head drop from
one side Of the mothers breast to the othor and
felt its pulse.
"Oh what 10 the matter with my baby, Mrs.
| Kennedy; is it dcad?"
| III IL OeRu, WIS the IeSpOuSc, ana an 2gon1z-
Ing shrek escaped the mothers lips.
"oh, take my baby and come home with me;
Mr. Gardner is dead. He was going to leave me
and couldn't endursit. an frsnzied, and
hot him."
Handing the dead child to Mrs. Kennedy she
rushed from the house across tho street and to
her HONS Mrs Kennedy followed. aud on en-
tsring the inside hallway found Hrs. Gardner
kneoling over the dead body of her husba nd and
pleading to him IN piteous tones not to leave her,
and asserting again and again how she loved him.
Mrs. Kennedy indu ced her to go up stairs, and
placing the babe IN its crib the mother knelt
beside it and kissed it often AID often where the
bullet made the cruel wound on Its handsome and
now pale and quiet face:
Mrs Baker the occupant Of the first floor Of No.
II. was in the kitche n in tho rear Of her apart
mcnts at the time the shooting t ok place. She
heard no Shots but heard the fall Of the Doctor
down the stairs, and went int the hall to see
what was the natter. On seeing him lying mo.
tionless before hcr,andsmeiling the smoke of the
powder she rushed out doors and sent word to
sshrens drug store, at the corner of Madison
street and Ogden avenue. Mr.. Behrens -soan ar
rived and comprehe nding At glance the situa-
tt:fn telephoned for the Lake street patrol wagon
l "
Mrs. Gardner again leaning over the lifeless body
of her husband, tearfally appealing TO him to
speak to her and not leave her, for he knew how
! deeply and dev0tedly she loved him. He and q
policeman took her up stairs and seated her in IN
easy chair in the parlor. They then put the dead
doctor on stretcher and took him up stairs and
laid his body Oh = bed, All this time the frenzed
and dying wife was appealing to her husband
| IN r(v 6uor oh 3nlbt Ia
without You. If you 60 take me, too. What
would Pearl aud do without your"
The officers inquired of the elder Mrs. Gardner
If the family had any friends, and the name Of
Professor z. Iarrar, of24 Ogden avenue being
mentioned. tho patrol wagon hurried there. The
Professor was not in, but Mrs. Farrar returned
with it. This lady told The Herald reporter what
she saw in the stricken house. She in vain en-
deavorsd to get Mrs. Gardner. the wife to recog-
nize her. The poor wounded woman sat in the
chair apparently oblivioas to all things around
her. and amid her means kept calling out:
please, aardy, don't say these things to me, you
know love you. Don't leave me- Gardy; don't
talk 10. We can be happy, and I love you better
than all the world; but don't .eavs me- and don't
speak to me in that way. Come kiss our baby
Pearl, Gardy dear, and stay with me.''
But little is known Of tho Gardner family In this
city, aud they appear to have had NO intimate
friends. Tho husband and wife were second
cousins, and when they were married he was an
officer and partner in q bank ut Wadena, Minn.
Some time after their marriage sho became sick
and was an invalid for i've years. aud, although a
woman of nne physique, has never since her mar
risge been in perfect health. She was woman Of
above the ordinary height, Of fine presence and at
tractive appearance: She is twenty nine years Of
age. Her husband, the Doctor, was forty.tour
years OF age, over six feet in height dark-whisk-
cred aud good looking. He was not a regular,
but what Is called = magnetic physician. He had
an office, or rather store, at al Wes. Madison
street, where he supplied al kinds of magnetic
appliances for the cure Of all Ills that aes is heir
70. His latest invention in that line was an insole
for shoes which he guaranteed would keep the feet
from feeling cold as Well as possessing other v;r-
tues He was also The inventor of patent rotary
plow, and formed partnership with man named
Colby for it's manu- acturc. 1t appears that each
has accused the other Of not acting sounrelv.
When he came to this City it is said he had about
oooo, gil of which ii gone, as welt AZ the money
and personal PROPERTY Of his wife and mother.
For some timep past they have been alsnated
from each other one Of the reasons therefor bsing
their poor financial condition and his refusal or
Inability to decently provide for the family An
ether was their ,nu ua1 jealousy Of each other.
But on this phase It would not be delicate or prop
er to enter just how. There was young man named