The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-25
Condensed General News. =
a SAD TRAGEDY.

beautiful Bride is Shot Dead by Her
Husband in New York, "a Medical stu
dent from Kansas City, Who Likewise
shoots Himself.
New York special:-On June 10 a young
couple engaged room No. %, on the second
door OF the Sturtevant house, and were
registered as Winfield Lee Thompson aud
wife OF Kansas City, Mo. He was twenty
our wears old, and she three years his
Junior. GA the afternoon OF the 10th, the
hotel office bell rang from room No. %,
which the yOu"g couple had closely re-
tained since their arrival. But when the
bell boy responded and raped at the door
there WAS no response. After repeated
tapping, with no sound from within Il car
oenter forced open the door. Both Thomp-
sOn and his wife lay side by side on the
lOor. MIS-. Thompson had been shot in the
back Of the head and was dying when the
ott: :nliuHts entered. Thompson was con
sciOus for a moment, and asked that
I doctor be sent for. In Thompson's hand
vas revolver. There were bullet
wounds in his head and breast,
but not necessarily fatal. An ambu-
ance was sent for but before it arrived
5he woman was dead. There are indica-
lions that the pair were on their wedding
:Our, and the inscription inside her ring in
1icated that they had been married June
2 The bell knob in the room was bloody,
indicating that the shooting had been done
before the bell was rung. The couple had
oeen stopping at the Sturtevant house,
wh2h marked their return from their
wedding tour, that extended through Rhode
Island and Massachusetts. The most al
ectiOnate relations seemed to exist between
she pair. Genevieye, the bride was rather
pretty with dark complexion. Her parents
i've in this city and are well-to-do. A
amily quarrel caused the bride, Miss Kohl
er, to leave home three years ago. She
iound employment in a store. She first
saw Thompson last November. He called
lpon her through the winter and an en-
gagement followed. Her friends approved
he match. He is the son of people well
Snown in Kansas City.
The couple were married in this
,ity by Rev. DR.. Elder, of the church OF
she Epiphany, (Baptist) on June 2. Mrs.
KOhler's parents sent presents but did not
attend. Since the young couple returned
rom their wedding trip they had been very
quiet. In his antemortem statement
Thompson insisted that he loved hIn wife
and she loved him. II a hemorrhage cf the
lungs does not set in Thompson may re-
,over.
Kansas City speCial:-W. L. Thompson,
Who killed his wife aHs then shot himself in
New York city is a son ofRev. DR.. Thomp-
son, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
,hurch OF this city, and one of the fore
most divines OF this city. His elder son,
Winfield B., studied medicine at the Kan.
ias 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 pot returned
aere. The theory suggested here is that
Thompson had been nelandestinely married,
and for some reason fearing the conse-
luences. had determined to seek an escape
.ather than meet his father. Thompson
had for some time been engaged TO be mar
led to a young lady who moves in the
pest social circles of Kansas City.