The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-06-25
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Condensed General News.
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a D-autiful Isrite Is slsos Dead BIZ Her
Husband In New York; Medical stu.
don't from Knnsss CITY. Who Likewise
shoois HlmsolG

A Beautiful Bride Is SHOT Dead By He,
tsa>band In Now York; Medical stu.
don't from Kansss City. Who Likewise
fhoois Himself
New York spe:ial:-On June 10 young
couple engased room NJ. 25. on the second
floor Oi the Sturtevnnt house. and were
registered as Winfield Lee Thomson and
wife Of Kansas City, Mo. He was twenty.
Tour years old, and she three years his
junior. On the afternoon OF the 18th, the
hotel office bell rang from room No. 25,
which tho young couple had closely rc.
tanned since their arrival. But when the
l,ell boy responded and raped ct the doc.
there was NO response. After repeated
rapping, with no sound from within q car.
penter forced open the door. Both Thomp.
son and his vile lay side by side OH the
floor. MIS-. Thompson had been shot In the
9 back OF the head and was dying when the
attandants entered. Thompson was con.
scious for. a moment, and asked that
was revolver. There were bullet
wounds In his head and breast
but not necessarily fatal. An a,nbu.
lance was sent for, but before It arrived
the woman was dead. There nre indica.
tions that the pair were on their wedding
: tour, and the inscription inside her ring In
dicatetl that they had been married june
q. 4stU OCib huSeV HI Vu6 EOOIu was OIOO0V.
Indicating that he shooting had been done
before the bell was rune. The couple had
been stopping ut the Sturtevant house,
which marked tiieir return from their
wedding tour, that extended through Rhode
Island and Massachusetts. Tho most nj.
fectionatc relations seemed to exist between
fhepair. Genevieve the bride, was rather
pretty with dark complexion. Her parents
live in this city and are well-to.Go. A
fu n,ilt Il u
cr. To leave. home three years ago. She
feund employment in q store. She first
saw Thompson last November. He called
upon her through the winter and an en-.
gagememt 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. DR.. Elder, Of the church oI
the Epiphany, (Baptist) ON June 2: Mrs.
attend. Since the young couple returned
from their wedding trip they had been very
G'.:ct. In his antemortem statement
Thompson insisted that he loved h,s wife
and she loved him. II q hemorrhage OF the
lungs does not set in Thompson may re.
cover.
Xansns City spccial:-W. L. Thompson,
who killed his wifo and then shot himselli in
ron, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church Of this city. and one Of the fore.
most divincs oi this city. His elder son,
Winfield r.. studied medicine at the Kan.
sas City Medical college. and graduated
two yetrs ago. He then entered the
College OF Medicine and Surgery in New
York. since which time he has not returned
here. Tho theory suggested here is that
Thompson had been clandestinely married,
and for some reason fearing the conse.
qucnces. had determined to seek an escape
rather than meet his futher. Thompson
had for some time been engaged to be mnr.
rs.l to ~ young lady who moves in the
best socinl circles Of Kansas City.