Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-24
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The Herald gives the following par
s,rulsrs Of the affair OF young Murray
hs;ef merticn OF which was made Il
COR columns yesterday:
The door-bell Of Daniel Mcouade I
house. No. c6 west Thirteenth street
rang very late on Monday night, AM
Nrs. McQuade going to the door, saw
tell. slim young man. .,a.
al am Gerard Z. Murray SAID sh'
strspger, "and I understand my WIZ
l. here. Can see herr" ;,
Mrs. McQuaae hesitated. II was only
q few days ago that Mrs. Murray, who
Il small and pretty and hardly sixteer
wears old, had engaged room on the
third floor to hide, she said, rom mel
husband, who had threatened to XII
her. :.
"Yes,~ replied Mrs. McQusde al
length, "your wife is here, Mr.. Muir
raw. but YOU cannot see her. She Is
afraid of YOU"
"why. that is folly" exclaimed
Murray earnestly. II love her toe
much 10 bart her. Oh, please pity me
ard Let me see her, beg Of you y;
and the young man burst out crying.
Touched BY his evident desire to con.
eil,ate his wife, Mrs. McQuade opened
the door. saying; Well, come H.
You stay here while talk to your wi'e.
II she will see you, you can 60 up
stairs IL not, you must 20 away.
But Murray did not wait to hear what
his wife would say. lie followed MIS-
Ncouade up the stairs softly, and when
she entered Mrs. Murray's room nc foi'
,ow,a ON her heels. The landlady was
as,on;sbed. but as the meeting OF the
eouple seemed very afectionate on both
sides she said nothing, but sat down
and waited. Murray and his wife con-
yersed in most friendly spirit for some
time, stopping only to drop hints that
they would like to be left alone. Thecau-
tious lsndlady wanted to stay, but having
to get supper for her husband she was
obliged TO 60 down stairs. Later Muir
ray went out, stopping TO tell Mrs. Nc,
Qusde that be and his wife were good
friends again, and that he was going out
TO say goodnight to friends he had LEFT
ON the corner and would return imme-
diately. Mrs. McQuade thought there
was something peculiar in his manner,
and told her servant not to admit him
without her consent. Then she herself
went across the street 10 see a sick
friend.
THE TRAGEDY.
Ten minutes later the woman in the
house across the street called Mrs. Nc
Quade from the sick room, saying,
- There is some one screaming over in
your house."
1t flashed upon the landlady at once
that there was trouble in Mrs, Murray's
room. Running across the street she
heard Mrs. Murray crying for help, and
learned that her husband had admitted
Murray. The cries for help had ceased
when she reached the room. The door
not being opened. the excited landlady
burst it in. Ii had been held shut by
chair which had been tilted back and
forced under the knob.
In the middle Of the room lay the
young wife, paralyzed with fear.
Kneeling by her head was Murray, a
pistol in one hand and glass half full
Of a dark liquid in the other. He was
irving to force her to drink the liquid.
lie himself had swallowed part Of the
contents of the glass. The mixture had
begun 10 take effect upon the yeung
man. His hand trembled, his face
worked convulsively, and his BODY
swayed as if he would fall. Mrs.
got to work at once. She
the pistol from Murray's grasp
and pushed him away, sent her hus-
band for the police, and turned her at
tention to reviving Mrs. Murray, who
had tainted.
Murray was in spasm when Police
man Ewing came in. The officer had
sent for an ambulance. and when it ar
rived Murray was carried prisoner to
the New York hospital. He had taken
on overdose Of wbiskey. His life was
saved without much trouble. Yester-
dsy he was taken to the Jefferson-Mar-
ket Police Court and remanded in the
custody of the Meroer-street police.
He was charged with attempting sui
eide. The hospital doctors say he took
no poison, but was awfully drunk.
WEALTH, NOBILITY, AND ROMANCE.
In telling bis own story the prisoner
said his full name was Gerard Francis
Norman Murray. He is twenty-one
years old and gives his birthplace as
HYDE Park, London. He says he is
related to Lord Darlington and the
Duke of Argyll. His father, he says,
is . celebrated officer Of the High Court
of Chancery, and his brother, the Rev.
G. NJ. Murray, is an Episcopal clergy
man at Lynwood, Va. Gerard was
educated in London, where he
studied medicine, but he was never
graduated in the profession. Last
July, while at Herne Bay, watering
place in Kent, he met Joicy Marion
Brown. Miss Browns father was dead
lie had been q wealthy wine.merchani
at Ealing, in Middlesex county. Miss
Brown was very young, pretty, anc
stylish, and wanted to marry Gerard
only her mother objected and sent hel
TO relatives in Norfolk. Murray fol
lowed her and prevailed upon her t.
elope. Their plan was spoiled by
barrister who took the girl away from
Murray on the cars gsing to London
and sent her home. Grandparents thei
decided to send him to America with hi
brother, the clergyman, who was il
England on visit. In the mean tim,
Joicy had run away from homo agail
to meet the object Of her affections. II
had gone to America, but was recalle
by Mrs. Brown, who finally decided t
consent TO the marriage, which wa
celebrated on the LIST instant by tn
Rev. j. s. billiard, in Christ church
Ealing. The couple sailed few day
later on the Etruria for this city, al
irving on the 18th instant.
THE PLOT THICKENs.
On the voyage the young husban
became jealous Of his wife's allege