Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-11-20
A SAD ENDING.
How a Michigan Man Miserably
Perished.
A Notable Figure In New York student
Life Lately Shot In H.s Laboratory
In Dakota-The Story OF
the Murderer.
IN. Y. TimAAl


lished couple OF days ago. told of the
sad ending of a career that bsgan under a
cloud in New York City decade and q
halt ago. One day ;h last week man
who us sd.to be a table a .uce in student
life in New York was shot dead while
hard at work in his lab1rat ry. out in a
small Dakota town. Ross HALLS. a SOL
der in the United States Infantry, was
the murderer. Henry P. Lynch was the
name OF the victim, m IN just approach-
sfE the prime of II e, brave and earnest.
1 p . thousand experiences had proved
since he went to the struggling little OUT
pcs OF Sturgis to endure the experiences
or physician on the frontier. favor
ite with the hardy people among whom he
settled, his death was q1ickly avenged,
and before his grave had been dug his
slay.r had been hanye Henry Lynch
came from Ann Arbr, Mich, in 1870, to
begin his medical carser at tn NV York
University. Nearly six feet in height, a
manly specimen OF the blonde tyne,
bright, clever, AMI, above all, good
natured, the Westernsr rapi lily became
popullr with his classms,. His acquaint-
ance extended. In every student haunt
he was hailed as q welcome guest. Even
b llavue forgot its antipathies, and con-
descended to sit at her tables with Lynch
and his university frienls. In those days
of 1877 Hans Krempt's modes. and ancient
little hostslry in Twenty fifth street. be.
tween First and Second avenues was the
recognized rendezvous for the univsrsity's
5'lliess fellows. Lynch began his studies
late in life. He was thirty.two years of
age whsn he came to New York. There
-. IL.
ic crisr here then. aud Henry Lynch.
during his three years. residence In the
citv. rose to posts of some CO isequsncs as
Freemasou.
About year before Lynch left the me-
tropolis for Blltimor, he b clms en-
tangled in love affair. or course he
had rival-a leading man at Bellevue.
The woman was unworthy the attention
OF such man "a Lynch. She played fast
and loose with him. He neglected his
lee ures and lived in a veritatls para.
disc OF fools. One night Lynch
walk d into city theater at late hour
The curtain had j Isl risen on tn final
act of The Sch ool for Scandal" In one
Of the boxes sat Lynch's inamorata with
his rival. le lady was bostowing her
sweetest smiles on the m IN whom Lvnch
cord ally hated. On SIGHT OF them MS
fr ends motto i that had bee lme death
ly pale. Without word or sign he arose
abruptly from his scat and LETT the thea
ter. Two hours later Lyrch. sitting in
thu littls old Du ch saloon on Twenty
fifth rect, was gazing moodily in he
CRATE in Hans sandel parIor. Sudd any
the door opened AMI his Bsllavus rvlI
s:rode in with the false ones favor OF th, ,
evening in his hutton-Iola.
"Hello, Harry, why are you waiting
here consolats?' WIS the newcomers
greeting. There was no response.
"What's the matter, old fellow? Sup.
pose you've been to the thea.sr Tonight.
Hope ANYTHING you saw hasn't sturbed
you?" st II Lynch kept his lips sealed.
Hans crept in softly and asked or
customers order. Bring us bottle OF
SEC, Hans, and two glasses, aud shut the
door; Harry is gloomy, and I'll Try to rouse
him a b t." The wine was brought and
gla 'ses placed, but the meek little Dutch
man retreated, closing the door behinl
him softly. Only cne man in the room
afterward described what happened.
Lynch was taunted beyond endurance by
his successful rival. He arose from
his seat, and at a stride reached the little
round table where his torn ,ntor had
filled the glass with thu sparkling
beverage. Without a nom ant's pause he
lifted up one OF the thin -stemmed bowls
and dashed its contents into his rivals
face
There was cry and heavy. fall, and
the excited Hans. rushing in, found
Ly nch standing over his enemy prostrate
on the floor, the table overturned and tie
bottle of wine broken on the foor. Two
days afterward a duel occurred, LyncI
broke the Bellevue mans left kneepan
with a bullet. crippl NJ him for life The
matter was hushed ur, and Lynch went to
Baltimore, where ho finished his studies.
Subsequently the woman whom Lynch
had loved destroyed his rivals life and
sank in,o the low ,st depths OF shame.
There was a broken cord in the Western
er's career, however, whose ragged ends
could never be united. He has met With
terrible end-shot by a drunken soldier
whom he had brought before a court
martial for brutality TO one OF the women
who, even as far out as Oak .ta hang
around the colonies and outposts where
Uncle Sans regulars are stationed.