The examiner., 1886-06-19
T H E
TERRIBLE MURDER.

A YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFI
 AND COMMITS SUICIDE.
 Description of the Pair Of Unfor,u.
 nates-They arc from Kanaas | City, Missouri.
 NEW YORK, June 16.-One of those ter rible tragedies which periodically shock the community occurred yesterday after noon at the Sturtevant House. William 1 B. Thompson, Of Kansas City, Mo, aged twenty seven. shot his wife in room No 25 yesterday afternoon. and then at tempted to take his own life | She lived about twenty-five minutes and then expired from the effects of the bullet, which entered the back of her head. He was taken to the New York Hospital, and cannot survive the two wounds be has inflicted on himself.
 PARTICULARS OF THE TRAGEDY
 A pistol shot, sharp and clear, in one of the corridors of the Sturteyanf House at i've minutes after three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Then came long ring at the bell from room No 25, on the second floor. Immediately after two more sharp and clear shots were heard, and night haIlboy Oliver Carroll hurried to the room. He tried the door and it would not open He heard groans inside and half scared to death he rushed down stairs to the office
 There he met MT. Lewis Leland. tsOh, MT. Lewis" he gasped, "a man has killed his wife In No. 25." MT. Lewis Le- land at once hurried up stairs. Carpenter George Hutty had preceded him by some minutes, however and was in the room. He. too, had tried the door, and not being able to get in, seized an axe and smashed the door in- When the door flew open 8 horrible sight met his gaze.
 On the floor, with their heads resting on pillows were a man and woman The woman was breathing her last and the man was groaning with pain. On the floor lay heavy revolver still smoking.
 ''Why have you done thisf" asked Hutty.
 "Please get a docter. quick,s answered the man.
 Tell me why you did thisP" again de- manded Hutty.
 sGet a doctor, tell you" again replied the man.
 Further he would say nothing. In the meantime an alarm to the police and an ambulance call had been sent out and messengers summoned for doctors. Doc tors s. V. Mulford, w. H. Katzenbach and Pallon responded. Just as they arrived the woman died. She had not recovered conciousness from the time she was shot until she died, period of perhaps twenty minutes.
 The physicians cared for the man as we'll as they could but could do little for him. A superficial examInation satisfied them that he was fatally wounded and the ambulance from the New York Hospi- tai just then arrived and took him away to that institution. The surgeon on the
 1fg usru a--s-------- another back of his left ear. The young woman dead on the floor had bullet hole in the back of her head.
 No one knows how the tragedy came about The first heard was the pistol shot. then came the violent ring at the bell The murderer refused to tell and the woman could not. There was nothing tosindicate a motive in the room. save jaunty hat which lay beside the blood soaked pillow on which the head of the dead woman rested. She was in street attire, and it looked as if she was going ont. But this is combatted by the two pillows on the floor, side by side, which would indicate they had been lying down. The room in which the murder and suicide was committed was one of three. Ad' joining is the bedroom and off 1t the bath room.
 Five days ago both of them came to the hotel and registered as William B. Inomp- son and wife, Kansas City. They had two Saratoga trunks, two travelling bags and lots of clothing. They kept to themselves pretfy much and none of the other guests knew much about them.
 Thomson must have held his wife after shooting her, for the room bell where he had placed his hand to ring was covered with blood. The woman's body was re- moved to the MorRue.
 It was said that the couple wereon their wedding trip
 shot and killed his wife and then shot himself. was unchanged at last accounts. The physicians in attendance on hlm say that he may recover if no unfavoraole symptoms set ln.
 Thompson had obtained a position for the present summer as surgeon on poaro steamer of the Stonington Line, between | New York and Boston. His fatner leIt 1 Kansas City yesterday for New ork, e1' l nectipc to sail in few days for Europe, | where he intended to spend several months, vacation It is suggested thai | tbe young man had been ciandestineiy | married. and for some reason lear | ing to meet the consequences ue ternined to kill his wife ana nm | self rather than meet his father. Ht had for some time been eh&ageo " | voung lady who moves in the best socla Circles of Kansas City. The Rev. MT Thompson is widely known as an eio qnent preacher. He occupied the puipl l of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, l Prooklvn last summer He has one soI | remaiuinp student for the ministry ant two daughters The son, Winfield bore good reputation during ms resioehce
 Kansas City.
 Al former classmate at Princeton sala
 .sI was never more surprised in my hn
 than I was when l read or tnis ciinl t,.
 committed by Thompson. He was m In
 last man in the world, certainly the las
 man of his class, whom would have De
 Heved capable of such deeo' he wa
 graduated.
 She Has seeded.
 OTTAWA, J une 1e.-There IS lt consiaSia ot th
 .xcitement here over the result or tn
 Election, which has just taken place
 Nova Scotia, in which the GovsrnmSn' tbn n1a,
 .,vho went to the country, on the Pia' frnr1