River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-22
AVENGED HER mRonns


A Woman Who Cisims to Have Been the
Discarded Wife Of Henry W. King, $. m
of Wealthy Chicago CIothier. Follows
Him TO Omaha, and shoots Him Down
The Victim Had Recently Welded a
Miss urt Cir His Friends saw M. MIR
deress Was Nothing to Him but a Cast
on Mistress.
OMAHA, Nov. l9.-Ha-ry w King, Jr.,
was tne victim OF a terrible tragedy
enacted IN this city Saturday morning.
A few weeks ago Browning K5no q
Co, the well-known clotniers OF Chicago
and elsewhere, opened branch here.
Henry W., the son of one Of the pro-
prietors, has been boarding at the Pax
ton Hotel with his wife At 1880 O'Clock a
fair-haired, lady like woman arrived from
chicago anu registered AS Mrs II. w.
ng, Jr., and proceeded to the victims
room. Calling him 70 the door q CONVEX
sation ensu d, she upbraiding him, while
he urged her to go away and leave him.
She finally said with tears in her
eyes: Harry. win you take me TO
breakfasts / mean you no harm"
Hs repulsed her roughly aud started for
the elevator. She followed, and overtak-
ing him drew revolver and shot him in
the mouth. He staggered away, she fol-
lowed and hrei three more shots, W en- he
fell down stairs leading TO the rotuutia,
dying Immediately She rushed after him
with the smoking revolver in her hand,
and, kneeliRg by his side, sobbed: i've
murdered my husband" Judge Brew n,
OF the United States District Court and
many guests, were eye Witnesses
The murderess in an interview in the
Jail said she came here with the deter
mination 20 do nothing else than TO bring
her husband 10 justice. When she met
him in the hotel parlor he refused to
listen to her and took her by tne throat,
threatening TO choke her TO death. This
provoked her, and she concluded to call
the revolver into service. Tue revolver
had been tested and found perfect before
il came into her possession she sad
Then you have been assisted in this
undertakings asked the reporter
my father never refused u lend me as
sist nee, even wlen child at schcv', aud
he lives to-day. Does that oxplaIn~
Saturday afternoon tue woman said
her home was in Cleveland, O., where
her parents now reside in very poor
circumstances, but in the evening she
claimed TO be the daughter of retired
capitalist of Chicago she was married
to King in Quincy H., about five
so heavily involved in debt she says, that
her husband Ia 1 TO leave the town. King
then went TO Chicago and shortly after
ward sent for her Ia that cit they lived
until about four weeks ago when her hus-
band forsook her to marry Miss Duffy, of
Lou siana, No.
ST.. Louis, Nov IA few weeks since
a special dispatch from Louisiana, Mo,
appeared in the Post Disp itch, Of this city,
announcing the marriage OF Henry
w. King, Jr, TO lady at that
place. The marriage WAS secret one,
ami il is thought the divorced wife had
just learned of it when the tragedy fol-
lowed. Members of the firm Of Br.wning,
King & Co. here refuse TO talk.
CHICAGO, Nov. re The father of young
King, who was killed in ON 4ha. in Talk
with a reporter positively denied the
statement that his son had been shot by
the divorced wife OF the young man. The
woman who killed him was a Mrs. Beechler,
who lives on Cass street" said the
old gentleman Nv son probably had
some sort OF relations with her before he
left here for Omaha last July"
PITTsBUReH, Pa, Nov. ia Cleveland
(O) special to the Times regarding the
woman Beechler, who Xxi led Harry w.
King in Omaha Saturday, says that her
parents We in Cleveland In poor circum-
stances, and that Mrs Maggie Beechler,
mother Of the murderess. told the chief of
police the following story Of her daugh-
ter's life AMI downfall:
MY daughter L zzie Beechler first met King
at a country hotel near Cleveland where she
was work ng. He was . dasning young fellow
and IL was a case Of mutual admiration. soon
after she went with him TO Chicago from
whence she wrote saying that she had married
King Her letters were frequent aud al
ways spoke OF X NJ IN loving terms. About
two years ago she palt visit 10 her
family IN Cleveland Kiag came for her and
she returned with N TO On cage, taking with
her youager ster and her 2 year-old brother.
Last sprng I paid my dau liter visit and
found her living IN splen1id style aid aTp par
entity happy. Tue tone OF her letters never
changed until a week ago when Lizzie wrote
home saying she had hal some trouble with her
husband. The next news l aeard was the story
Of the murder"