New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-19
YOUNG THOMPSON DEAD.
FUNERAL OF HIS VICTIM AT HER HOME.

HIS BROTHER TOO MUCH AFFECTED TO STAY
THROUGH IT-DR. THOMPSON Al THE DEATHBED.
The Twenty ninth Precinct policeman who
has kept vigil the bedside OF Winfield b. Thompson IN
the New-York Hospital since ne murdered his
wife and put four bullets into himself, was
relieved OF further anxiety In the case
a few minutes after IL o'clock this morning. AT that
time the young wife murderer dead His last hour
waUne OF great agony. AT IL o'clock his pulse was so
low to be barely dstinguishabe and he moaned ana
writhed with pain. At his bedside sat his father anu
brother an xious to administer what comfort was poss'
BILE under the but they were poweress
surgeon. Dr. Markoe. whose prophecy that
the patient would not live through the night was ful-
filed.
The funeral Of Tnompsons bride took place at the
home of parents at Forty-hfth-s and Nnh-ave' IN
the morning. The Kahers occupy hat OF four rooms
on the third floor OF the building. small room 'front.'
Ing on Nnth-ave. is used psror and 1t was in this
that the coffin placed The white dress which only
days ed wedding draped the
corpse aud bunch Of white rested on the bosom
The rooms filed with the friends of the family
Several hundred people, drawn by morbid curiosity,
congregated about the entrance TO the Nat In Forty
fh-st and had not brawny policeman blocked their
way doubtless would have filed the Railways. sov-
eral shop girls from stcrns store. where
the mur iered girl had been employed for the seven
years before her marriage present. together with
DIR. and Mrs. Dana b. Pratt. with whom Mrs thompson
had lived for the last two years and the father mother
sister OF Geneyeve, jennie they pre-
ferred to call her
About o'clock c. Vance Thompson. brother OF the
young husband, and &. W. Scobel, Pttsburg lawyer
and close friend of the Thompson family. reached the
house with the intention OF remaining during the funeral
services but the former affected by the sight or
his dead sstern.law that he was obliged to Withdraw
When the Rev. DR.. Joseph L. Elder who married the
young couple, began tho reading of the fu-
OF
10 O'Clock, Mrs. Kaher, who seems TO have become
nearly demented since the death OF her daughter began
to sob hystercsy and had to be removed from the room
Five carriages containing the chleI mourhers iooweu
the body to the Evergreens Cemetery:
Young Thompson passed what Is kno @n IN hosptal
lug his case took u turn ior .Io "oiso ns st a.
hospital up what little nope tney an
&. L. Thompson, OF Kansas CITY, and C. Vance Ihomp-
son, OF Chicago the father and brother OF the suere
arrived at 8 a. m., and one or the other remained
at tho bedside throughout the day. Iho frtner
conversed with his erring son for lew minutes aIter MS
arrival but eyery.word spoken by patient seemed
to add 80 much to his general exhaustion DE- James
Markoe. who has the IN charge, forbade any ono
speaking hun. Ii thought that the exclteine nv
attendant upon Thursday nights interview between tle
father and had made q serious inroad upon the
patients vitality. II was proposed early yesterday
morning that ncsiOn he made III young Ih0iDpsons
spot affected directly. But 1t was nnally deciued
It would he Ineffective, as II was probable that tho
ballet had pierced both the lungs and the intesunes.
Although Of the time the young man now
aud Gerious from pain and RELIEF Ia tho
form Of opates administered ia every instance
About O'Clock he attacked with slight hemor-
rhage of the lungs, which reduced hm TO precailos
Ecsides the father brother Mr. Scobe and tho attend
ants the only Iers1n who young Thompson yes
terday was Robert :. Yarl his clUsest friend. Yard
absolutely refuses talk about the case although Is
would throw some light on IT, The Rev. Dr. Thonp-
sou also refuses to tai k about his sons deed