Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-02
THE KILLING OF PAGE.
Light on the Tragedy by the Paper Owned
by Deceased.

CHARLOTTE, S. c., July 28.-The follow
Ing remarkable account of the assassina-
ton of Colonel Roger J. Page aJ Marion
Monday night last was printed today in
the Marion Times-Register, owned and
edited up to the time of his death by the
deceased:
This quiet town was Monday night last
the scene of a terrible tragedy that
shocked the whole community beyond
qny occurrence that has ever transpired
here Colonel Roger j. Page, the
former editor of this paper, left
town on the 8 o'clock west-bound train to
visit Round Knob. He returned at mid
night by the train going east, due here at
IL. He left the train in company with
Judge Hazelwood, of Texas, and one or
two other gentlemen and proceeded on
foot to the Dellinger hotel When about
$50 yards from the depot he was shot, the
ball entering at the back Of his neck and
breaking it. He expired instantly. Sew
eral parties were present, but the glare
scene of the tragedy made 1t 1mpossl-
BILE to recognize the form or features of the
person who fired the shot. Colonel Page
Tell dead by the first shot, but three or four
other shots We're fired in quick succession.
The facts as they can be gathered are
simply these: Colonel Page was mar
ried man, living apart from his wife for
YORK. He married the daughter of the
late John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, who
controlled or edited the Richmond Elk
aminer during the war. He came
to Asheville some three years ago to
practice the profession of law. He became
dissatisfied with the results of his efforts
and took charge of the Bugle (newspaper)
- off chA 2
to the Times-Register. The office of the
Times-Register was on Court House street,
nearly opposite the dwelling house of one
of our prominent citizens. He was re
ceived into the family as a visitor
and looked upon as gentleman,
being man of fine intellectual
attachments, educated and cultured, and &
fine conversationalist- 1t soon became ev-
ident to those who took the trouble to OBJ
serve closely that his intentions were not
honorable and that be intended to ruin the
character of the gentleman's wife.
His visits became more frequent, until
stolen visits in the absence of the husband
were habitually practiced and until he had
obtained such an influence over the wife
and mother as to arouse the suspi
cions of the husband. Investiga-
tions only confirmed the latters
suspicious. The colonel was noti-
fed to cease his visits. Colonel Page
sought advice from a few gentlemen in
town, protesting his innocence of any i'm
proper conduct or intention, but carefully
concealed the worst facts bearing upon
his conduct, which have since been made
only too plain. He was advised to cease
his visits and TO go on as if nothing had
occurred, for his own sake and the sake
of the wife and mother. who must suffer
il color was given TO these suspicious.
b Instead of ceasing his visits, as he was
notified and warned to do, he kept up
communicating with the wife, and five
days after he had received the warning
aud two days preceding his death, in the
absence of the husband he again made a
stolen visit TO the house whose peace
he had destroyed. The deluded man
seemed to be victim of his own passion,
which unfortunately carried him TO his
destruction and has wrecked the peace
of a family whose hallowed precincts his
ungovernable passion led him 10 invade.
While the killing is TO be regretted, the
aged parents and connections of the ruined
wife and mother, upon whom his lustful
eye fell, and upon whose honorable name
this has been the first and only shadow
that has ever been cast, will have the SYM
patty of all honorable, thinking men.