Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-24
A BRACE OF HUMAN TARGETS
Ed Wiggand Shoots Allie Horine Three Timef
and Then Kills HIMSELF
THE RESULT OF UNREQUlTED LOVE,
The Bloody Scene Enacted on One Of
the Flats in the Estabrook
Block on Mort h sixteenth
Street.

yesterday afternoon in the Estabrook block,
corner of Sixteenth and Chicago streets.
Ed Wiggand shota woman named Alio
HORNE, alias Allie Tanner, and then killed
himself
The woman was shot three times through
the left breast, again through the neck, and
lastly in the head, the ball tattcning against
the skull.
The weapon was Al -calibrc Of the British
bulldog pattern.
Wlggand shot himself in the head above the
right temple, the ball entering the braiu-
Death was instantaneous.
The motive which prompted the awful
tragedy was shown by a note which was
found in the room where the would.be mur-
derer and suicide lay dead. 1t read as fol-
lows;
She is the cause OF that, She promised to
marry mo and then she started To sport. and
she sport9d right along, and kept her and
supported her rs long as could, aud this is
the result
ON the other side of the little scrap paper
which was evidently torn from note book
appeared the following information:
My brother Otto Wlggand Is working for
Otto Wagner at the Union Pacific bakery on
gand and my dear beloved dear is Allie
Horne. Her folks in Redwood, Mo"
The woman has gone under the name OF
AlllO tanner anu DOurucu WlJH MIS-, bGdy
no North Sixteenth street.
Wiggand boarded and worked at Kuenne's
bakery, 500 South Sixteenth street
The story told by the woman is to the ef-
feet that she used to go with Wiggand when
| she lived with her aunt out near the fair
| grounds, about year ago. Lately she has
adlittle to dowlth.him but yesterday he sent
for her stating that he was going to st. Louis
! last evening.
She said she could not have company at
her rooms and was compelled to sec Wiggaud
in rooms in the Estabrook block.
! When she visited Wiggand he wanted her
to accompany him to st. Louis without first
| going through the formality of marriage
ceremony.
This she would not consent to, and, when
he insisted, she told him that she would have
no more to do with him. He then drew the
revolver and said he would kill her She
told him to go ahead, and he fired.
the bullet struck the woman i'll the breast.
| She was sitting in a rocking char and as
| Wiggand attempted to fire again She kicked
him, spelling his aim. AS u consequence, he
shot her through the neck the ball entering
on the left side. 1t was only a flesh wound,
however.
Allie rose to her feet, and Wggaud appar-
emily began to get frightened He held the
gun close to her head and hastily fred point
biank.
Without waiting to see the result, Wig
gand turned the gun toward his own head
and again pulled the trigger; falling to the
floor corpse
Allie was partially stunned by the last
shot, but did not lose conciousness. The Sec
ond bullet had gone through the skin of her
~
1t was nattened to three times its original
width, and showed with what terrible force
it had sped from the revolver.
DR.. Harrgan was hastily summoned and
extracted the ball from the head with pair
of forceps. He probed for the first bullet,
but could not reach it. 1t had passed through
the walls of the chest and dropped down in
the cavity. The woman bore the probin 6
without murmur.
The doctor wanted to administer chloro-
form, but she would not take it, stating that
she could stand the pain,
The woman was lying on lounge in what
was apparently sitting room, and on the
window, with two chambers still loaded was
the weapor~with which the deed was DONE
The room where the shooting was done was
a little bed room, about l0xl2 feet IN size, and
the bed was in a tossed and rumped
condition. The suicide was attred only in
his shirt and pants and his body, as it lay on
| the floor in q pool of blood. gave the whole
scene n most gruesome aspect.
| Undertaken Burket was summoned and
Wiggand's body was taken from the scene OF
the tragedy to the undertaking rooms on Six
eenth street.
The nerve of the woman was something as
| tonishing. When one Of her intimate friends
came into the room just before the doctors
began to probe for the bullet in her chest
Miss HORNE saline:
NNpNV don't get nypitp1 Mary | I'm ri
a little admit but am not going to die
He shot me three times and it hurts me some
) but l will pull through, If there is any living
! 10 be done you may bet that am going to dc
. my share of it. Now dOn't worry; | will pull
( throughn
Mr. Kuenne, for whomEd Wiggand worked
said last night that Wlggand had driven {
team for him for about six months. He wa!
| very reliable man, never dissipating Ordoinl
anything TO cause trouble. Fora week ol
, more prior to the tragedy, however
Wiggand has acted very strangely. He
+ seemed to be studying about something that
: troubled HIM, and last Saturday he talked o.
| quitting, but Sunday he reconsdered thi!
5 and said he still wanted to keep the place
Monday night he sent the following not
down to one of the bakers at Kuenne's place
"rell the old man (meaning Mr., Kuennc
, that he can drive the wagon tomorrow him
self. | am going away, for am in trouble
Goodbye boys, goodbye TO all.n
Mr.. Huenne heard no more Of Wiggant
|, until The BEE arrived at his store con tanning
:, the account Of the tragedy.
The unfortunate mans brother said las
t night that the fact OF the matter was smpl,
!. that Ed Wiggand had met Miss HOrne abou
{ one year ago, when she was yirtuous and re
spectacle. He had been in love with her al
. the time, but her wayward steps had beel
: causing him great deal of misery and hat
linally driven HIM practically insane.
Some of the ladies for whom Miss Horin
worked said she was an excellent dressmake
and very quiet girl They admit, however
p that she might have been rather loose in he
v associations without their knowing il.
q A very large crowd of people called a
ioui, burkets vs. undertaKlhg rooms o' hISe h u u
Z quest Will be held at 3 p. m today
a At a late hour last night Miss Horin
seemed to be resting easy, considering he
condition, and the physicians said that ther'
was possibility that she might recover.