, 1888-11-18
Shocking Tragedy at the Pax
ton Hotel in Omaha
Henry King Shot Dead by His
Former Wife.
A Woman's Wrongs and a
Husbands Perfidy.
Ill-Used and Repulsed, She
Shot to Kill

OMAHA, Nov. l7.-Henry w. King,
Jr., of the firm of Browning, King & Co.,
was shot dead by his former wife this
morning. The house with which he was
connected here is a branch of the Chicago
house OF Henry w. King & Co.
Young King has been boarding at the
Paxton hotel with a woman ostensibly as
his wife. At 7:30 this morning a fair
haired ladylike woman arrived from
Chicago and registered as Mrs. II. W.
King and proceeded to the victims room,
calling him to the door. A conversation
ensued, she upbraiding him, while he
urged her to go away and leave him. She
finally said with tears in her eyes:
Harry, will you take me to breakfast?
| mean you no harm"
-FOUR SHOTS FIRED.
He repulsed her roughly and started for
the elevator. She followed and overtak-
ing him drew a revolver and shot him in
the mouth. He staggered away and she
followed and fred three more shots, when
he fell down the stairs leading to the ro-
tunda, dying Immediately. She rushed
after him with the smoking revolver in
her hand and kneeling by his side sobbed:
81 HAVE MURDERED MY HUSBAND"
Judge Brewer of the United States dis
trict court and many guests we're eye wit.
nesSes.
Cause of the shooting.
A reporter for the Bee saw the woman
who did the shooting and the following is
her story;
Il am the legal wife OF Henry w. King.
We were married about four years ago in
Chicago. We lived In Quincy, ILL.,, for a
time and kept house at that point. We
returned to Chicago and took up house.
keeping at 2l0 Cass street, where we lived
happily and peacefully together until four
weeks ago. Before the latter day, how
ever, Harry (the victim of the murder)
came to Omaha and looked around for a
place for the purpose OF opening up a
store here. He was with Mr.. Andrews
for a time and then he returned to Chi
cago and informed me that he had every
thing well under Roadway. After remain
ing for a few days he again started out,
giving me to understand that he was going
to Omaha.
Il heard nothing from him and became
uneasy. Finally | observed in a dispatch
from Kansas City that he had married
Miss Duffy, of that place. The news al
most bereft me of reason, and to be can
did, [ was completely stricken dumb.
We had a pleasant little, home with
plenty of money, in fact, everything that
heart could wish was at our disposal. |
loved Harry as [ loved my existence, and
more than [ could stand, and no doubt is
,,nra Than opv IouInp wifa'G haart pan
withstand.
well | at once learned the whereabouts
OF the parents of the girl who had un
knowingly taken my position beside my
husband and t%elegraphed them that King
had a wife residing in Chicago, from
whom he was not divorced. The parents
of Miss Duffy, alias Mrs. King No. 8,
reside at Louisiana, Mo. l also sent a
dispatch here to the wife, informing her
that King was a bigamist. [ suppose
that she got the dispatch and is now on
her way to Chicago to learn the sad news
of her husbands infdelity.
'Did you come here with the intention
of killing Mr.. KiDg?"
mo, sir, that was not my intention
when | started from home. 1t was to
have him prosecuted for bigamy. He
has married three times. Ora Walker,
who is now preparing to 90 on the theat-
rical stage in Chicago, was his first wife.
He obtained a divorce from her on the
ground of infdelity and some time after
he became acquainted with me-. His
father is wealthy and resides on Randolph
street, Chicago. When we were married
the fact that he had previously had a wife
from whom he was divorced was never
made known to me. 1t came to me IN all
its horrors when | was his wife, but |
overlooked all of it although i: was hard,
and never did | allow it to weigh upon
my mind IN the presence of Harry. My
maiden name was Elizabeth Beechler, and
my father is a retired capitalist in Chicago.
It will drive him crazy when he learns of
this. The statement that he got a di-
vorce from me is untrue. He never init
mated that he was DESTROYS of separation
from me. and | always thought that my
womanly affections were rightly be stowed
when | confided them to Harry. When
l learned of the facts that resulted in
this"
But have you seen Harry SINGER
us HE DEAD ?"
These words were uttered by the woman
to the reporter, who replied that the VIC
tim had met his deaSh. AS this infor-
nation was impaired the woman reeled
in her chair and fell into a semi uncon-