Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-25
Condensed General News.
A SAD TRAGEDY.

A Beautiful Bride Is Shot Dead by Her
. Husband In New York, q Medical Stu
dent from Kansas City, Who Likewise
Shoots Himself.
New York special:.-On June 10 young
couple engaged room No. rs, on the second
floor OF the SturteVant house, and were
registered as Winfield Lee Thompson and
wife OF Kansas City, Mo. He was twenty
four years old, and she three years his
junior. On the afternoon OF the 18th, the
hotel office bell rang from room No. 25,
which the young couple had closely re-
tanned since their arrival. But when the
bell boy responded and raped at the door
there WAS no response. After repeated
rapping, with no sound from within a car
penter forced open the door. Both Thomp-
son and his wife lay side by side on the
floor. Mrs. Thompson had been shot in the
back OF the head and was dying when the
attendants entered. Thompson was con-
scious for a moment, and asked that
a doctor be cent for. In Thompso s hand
was q revolver. There were bullet
wounds in his head and breast,
but not necessarily fatal. An ambu-
lance was sent for, but before it arrived
the woman was dead. There are indica.
tons that the pair were on their wedding
tour, and the inscription inside her ring in
u
2. The bell knob in the room was bloody,
indicating that the shooting had been done
before the bell was rung. The couple had
been stopping at the Sturtevant house,
which marked their return from their
wedding tour, that extended through Rhode
Island and Massachusetts. The most az
fectionate relations seemed to exist between
the pair. Genevieve, the bride, was rather
pretty with dark complexion. Her parents
live in this city and are well-to-do. \
family quarrel caused the bride, Miss K OIL
er, to leave home three years ago. She
found employment in a store. She first
saw Thompson last November. He called
upon her through the winter and an en-
gagement followed. Her friends approved
the match. He is the son OF people well
known in Kansas City.
The couple were married in this
city by Rev. Or. Elder, OF the church of
the Epiphany, (Baptist) on June 2. Mrs.
kohler's parents sent presents, but did not
attend. Since the young couple returned
from their wedding trip they bad been very
quiet. In his antemortem statement
Thompson insisted that he loved his wife
and she loved him. II hemorrhage of the
lungs does not set in Thompson may re-
cover.
Kansas City special:-W. L. Thompson,
who killed his wife and then shot himself in
New York city, is son ofRev DR.. Thomp-
son, pastor OF the Second Presbyt terrain
church OF this city, and one OF the fore
most divines OF this city. His elder son,
Winfield B., studied medicine at the Kan.
sas City Medical college, and graduated
two years ago. He then entered the
College OF Medicine and Surgery in New
York, since which time he has y OF returned
here. The theory suggested here is that
Thompsoa had been clandestinely married,
and for some reason fearing the conse-
quences, had determined to seek an escape
rather than meet his father. Thompson
had for some time been engaged to be mar
ried to young lady who moves in the
best social circles OF Kansas City.