Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-17
FRANK LOCKWOOD SHOT
By Lille Quinn. VINO Then Sent Ball
Crashing 1hroagh Her Own Brain.
A Sad Sequel to Aa-k7a.r Which Commenced
Here.

tun House, in that city. shot Frank E.
Lockwood in the head, inflicting a
wound that Will probably prove fatal,
and then turned the deadly weapon
upon herself, and sent ball through
her own head. and dropped dead.
1t appears that the two had been
rOOming together the night before. in
room number %, in the third story of
the hotel, and that after getting up and
dressing herself, and while Lockwood
was asleep. she committed the terrible
deed. When the boarders, and Others
in that part of the house heard the
shots, they notified the clerk, and he
called in the city marshal. Knowing
that Lockwood was in the room from
which the reports were heard, all were
/ in great suspense, though no one was
prepared 10 meet the sight before them
when the door was broken in. The
girl was lying on the floor, with her
head literally blown open. with pool
of blood around her. Lockwood was
lying on the bed, with his head and
shoulders hanging over the bed rail, and
stream of blood was running down
his face and arm To the floor. He was
unconscious, and remained so until late
that evening, when he recognized three
Of his friends from this city-Thomas
| DOran. Frank Kline and d. Z. Eldr.d,
who went over to Winfield on learning
of the occurrence. lie appeared to
| gain strength during Sunday, and was
able TO tell something Of the events.
! He had entirely lost the sight of the
left eye, and his right eye was closed
from swelling, but he knew the voices
of his acquaintance, and conversed
with them, and showed remarkable
nerve under the severe pain he was
/ undergoing. The shot had taken effect
in the left temple, directly over the left
/ eyebrow, and, it is supposed, ranged
through the brain, though it had not
been located at last accounts. He COM
planned of a pain at the base of the
brain, and also of one in the right side
of the neck.
The weapon used was a 3S-calibre
Colts self-acting revolver, and it was
the property of j. Wade Mcdonald,
from whom the girl had borrowed it the
day before, she claiming that she want
ed to 60 outside of town and practice
target shooting with another girl in the
house.
The body of the unfortunate girl was
buried Sunday morning, not more than
a dozen persons following it to the
! grave.
As both Of the parties TO this trage-
/ dy were known here, a brief history of
/ tie beginning and ending of this affair
I VIII he az interest at this time:
/ Franz -. Lockwood was. until Janu-
airy, 1875, = conductor on the Southern
Kansas railroad. lie quit that position,
and. with Ben Philips. of Wellington.
leased the Grand hotel. in this city, and
ran It successfully until June, 1885,
when Mr.. Phillips retired. The firm
I was then re. organized, and James r
I Fleming, of this city, went i'm as part
/ ncr. 1t WAS during this management
! That Lillian Quinn was employed in the
/ house, she coming here from Junction
/ CITY. we believe, in February last. She
was quiet. refined girl, about IS years
4 cd, well educated and an accomplished
/ conversationalist, and she made many
friends. She claimed to have gradua-
ted from Vassar college, and said that
her real name was not Quinn; but that
she had adopted that name that Ter
! people might not know of her where
abouts. She said her parents lived in
the south, and had heen very wealthy,
bit were broken up, and, we believe,
she claimed that they were dead.
1t was at the Grand hotel. in the
spring of this year, that she and Lock-
wood first became intimate. and their
escapades were general town talk for
several weeks. Since the occurrence at
Winfield. it is stated that it was first a
case of seduction, and that afterward
the girl became infatuated with Lock-
wood, even TO the verge of insanity.
That they frequently met, is no secret.
and it is also known that they cores
pended.
Always hale fellow, Frank Lock
wood mad allowed convIviality to lead
to excess, and for months he had at
tended to no business, and was a fnan-
cial wreck. He left the Grand hotel
last June, when the partnership was
dissolved. Since that time he has been
staying at Winfield, Ottawa and Kan
sas City. His wife, a most excellent
little lady, who has the respect and
friendship of every one, has been living
with her mother, at Ottawa, since she
left here. Lockwood registered at the
Brettun house the night before the
tragedy, as IF. +. Lockwood, The
! World, which, in measure, indicated
that he claimed no place as home.
His mother, Mrs. Hagerman. lived at
Winfield, as did his brother George,
who was clerk at the Grand hotel DIT
ring the time Frank was connected
with it. They were nearly crazed with
grief over the sad fate of their kins-
man. His sister is the wife of Mr..
Barnes; superintendent of the Southern
Kansas railroad.
At the cOroner's inquest over the
body of Lillian McQuinh, held Satur-
day. all of the evidence went TO show
that the tragedy occurred about as re-
lated above. Mamie Whelan, a girl
who had been with Lille for two years,
and who was her friend and con6dante,
while they were here, testified that Lii
1 "a. AoI e.lI Aow 49, cA
for Mr.. Lockwood than she did for any
other human being, and she was salts
fed that he did not care for herr" also
that Lille had threatened his life. The
following letter, found in Lilies purse,
was read 10 the coTOner's jury.
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