Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-17
NEW YORK SENSATION.
Further particulars of the sturtevant Ho-
tel Tragedy,

rel Tragedy,
NEW YORK, June l6.-What brought
about the tragedy al the Sturtevant house
yesterday remains mystery. Young
Thompson and his bride had been stop
ping at the Sturteyant house since last
Wednesday, which marked their return
from their wedding tour The most
affectlonate relations seemed to exist be-
tween the pair. The BRIDES parents live
10 this city and are well to do. A family
quarrel caused the bride, Miss Keeplel,
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 APP
proved the match. The couple were
married in this city by Rev. DR.. Elder,
June %. Miss Keepler's parents sent pres
ents, but did not attend. Since the yoGng
couple returned from their wedding trip
they had been very quiet. Yesterday they
lunched with friend OF the bride, Mrs.
Pratt, at $50 Mrs, Pratt was asked by
both TO remain longer than she did, but
declined. Scarcely twenty minutes after
| she left the rooms the bride was dead and
the husband lay by her side horribly
wounded. AT the hospital the coroner
| tried TO find what prompted the act
| Thompson refused to state 81 would
rather not say" was all that could be got
from him. Two letters, apparently writ
! ten Ia haste and still unsealed, were
found. One was directed to ar. S.
/ Yard,care w Il. Grace, Hanover Square"
| mayor Grace'S business address)
IL told that newly married
couple would 90 to Mauch Chunk to-
morrow morning, ana stated that &C."
(Genieve, his wife) was an angel. "Gc
thou and do likewise" was Thompson
admonition at the end of the note The
other letter was addressed TO "Dr. T.. G
Thompson, No. $40 West Fourteenth
street, Kansas City, MOI This also
told of the wife's admirable qualities aut
spoke of the trip 20 Mauch Chunk. In his
ante-mortem statement Thompson in,
sisted that he loved his wife and his
wife loved him, If hemorrhage of thu
longs does not set in Thompson may re
cover
THEORY SUGGESTED,
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June iG--Winhell
Thompson, who figures la the terribl,
tragedy at hotel Ia New York, is the sol
of Rev. DR.. Thompson, pastor of tn
Second Presbyterian church, one OF tn
foremost dlvines Of this city. Or. Thomp
; son was called 10 this rastorage iron
i, Pittshurg about four years ago. Hi
elder son, Winfield, studied medicine a
, Kansas City Medical college, was gradua
ted two years ago and then en-
!, tered the college OF medicn
and surgery in New York city
{. since which time he has not returue,
here. His father left here yesterda
. morning for New York, expecting to sa
, in few days for Europe, where he In
q, tended 70 spend several months vacation
!, The theory that naturally suggests itsel
! is that the young man had been clandes
timely married for some reason, and, feai
4 ing to face the consequence, he had de
= termined to seek escape rather than NEE
his father. Young Thompson had fc
some time been engaged to marry youn
lady who moves In the best society circle
ie In this city, and It is said the tragedy will
II doubtless, cause sensation when II be
ii comes known to her.