St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-28

lowed by Mr.. Baugh and one or two
others, DR.. Gale rushed to Room
No. 20, on the third floor, in the
rear of the hotel, where he found Theodore
Rich and his wife, Fannie Rich, each with
a bullet through the brain, while two big
streams of blood had run down upon the
carpet and spattered against the ceiling.
The man was lying on the floor, his head
against the wall, with a revolver clutched
in his right hand. The woman, slight
built lady, with gray hair and blonde
complexion, had not fallen from the chair,
which was near the center of the room. but
her head had fallen TO one side and from
her left ear stream of blood was running,
which trickled down on her dark dress and
had made a stain ten inches across.
A book that she had been
reading had fallen half opened beside the
chair, ana the blood had turned some pages
of this crimson. The book was entitled A
Wife's Honor, and it was picked up and
laid upon the table. When DR.. Gale saw
what had occurred he took up the woman
in his arms and said, Speak to me, Fan
ME; speak to me-" The woman was dead,
and when DR.. Gale put his ear to her heart
and found it did not beat, he staggered. put
the body back in the chair and told some of
the attendants with him to lay her decently
upon the carpet. Theodore Rich, whose
hand clutched the revolver. lay ON his side,
his feet not ten inches from those of the
lady he had murdered, and his head par
TALLY raised from the floor by contact with
the wall.
HE, TOO, WAS DEAD,
and big pool of blood ha0 run down and
covered the carpet. When Mr.. Baugh and
those with him found that both were dead.
they sent at once for the police and the cor
Oner. A few people who had heard of it
came into the hotel and tried to get into the
room, but entrance was denied to all save
Detective John O'Connor, Capt. Bresette
and other officers, until the coroner came.
1t was some twenty minutes or half an
hour before he came, and then the two
bodies were covered with white cloths,
their forms decently composed, and four or
five men placed them on stretchers and took
them down 10 Mccarthy & DOnnelly's
morgue, where they were laid side by side,
while crowd OF morbid-minded people
came in and looked at them. Up in the
room where the two shots were fired few
people stayed talking of the matter and
looking at the CHASTITY blood pools, until the
police told them to go out, and two or three
attendants went to work putting the room
in order and washing the blood from the
wall. A jewel that had been broken from
the wOman's ear by the force with which
the revolver had been crowded against it.
was picked out of the pool of blood that had
formed beside the chair where she sat. DIR.
Gale, who had occupied the room with
Fannie Rich, gathered a few articles of
clothing from his trunk and was given an
other room ON the fourth floor, and the KEY
was turned on No. 20 while the attendants
worked.
Room No. 20 is a small room with two
windows, and from this opens another some
what smaller. In it last night were four
chairs dressing case. small table and a
piano, while two or three pictures hung
about the wall The smaller room was a
bedroom, and has little furniture beside.
The occupants of the room, for the past
month, have been Fannie Rich, who was
murdered. and II. S. Gale, who was the
first person who saw her after the deed was
done. They were not married, but were
intending to have been made husband and
wife as soon as a divorce could be OBJ
tanned by the woman from Theo-
dore Rich, who committed the murder.
The couple has been in st. Paul since
Feb. 1, and Theodore Rich came to st.
Paul only yesterday. All the parties were
well known and influential in the vicinity
Of their home.