Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-28
MRS. KENZlE.
The Woman Who Was ChIoro-
formed at Hot Springs.
ANUMBER OF LETTERS LEFT.
Man Named Weldon or Walden from
Vernon, Tex, Was Her Paramour.
Murder and Suicide-How the Hor-
rible Deeds Were Done.

The following kilograms received by IHs
GAZETTE last night tell story OF Illicit
love which ended, as is often the case, IN
such affairs. There were number of per-
sons in Fort Worth who knew Mrs.
kenzie, and all say she was handsome
woman:
HoT SPRINGS, ARK, April 27.-Because
of his unhappy love for a woman which had
separated him from his wife, visitor by
the name of Weldon chloroformed his mis-
tress at an early hour this morning and
then ended his own life with a bullet. The
murder and suicide occurred at the Grand
View hotel Friday last they came here
and registered as MIR. and Mrs. Weldon,
Texas" Not appearing at the breakfast
table this morning at their accustomed
time a clerk burst open the door
10 their room and on the bed saturated with
blood, which had flowed from q wound in
Welden's head, lay the bodies of man and
woman. y revolver grasped tightly in his
right hand and cotton saturated with
chloroform in his left told the story. A
note addressed to the proprietor of the
hotel gave the reason already stated for
the tragedy, and desired that his body
should be sent 10 his friends at Vernon,
Tex. The woman was Mrs. Kenzie OF Fort
Worth, Tex.
THE PARTICULARS.
Special to the Gazette.
O'Clock to-day the landlady of the Grand
View cottage discovered that murder and
suicide had been committed in her house.
On last Friday man and woman took
board. The woman registered their names
as Mr. and Mrs. Walden, Texas" They
seemed TO be very atfectionate, and the
Doarders considered them to be
recently married. This morning.
neither coming to breakfast,
servant was sent TO the door, He answered
that they were sick. Not coming 10 dinner
the landlady, Mrs. Payne, raped at the
door There being no answer, she peered
through the window, which had been raised
4 few inches. She smelled chlorofoun and
screamed for assistance On the arrival of
Officer Stone. they entered the room and
found the man and woman in bed in their
night clothing. dead.
In Walden's left hand was some cotton
heavily impregnated with chloroform and
in his right hand was a 42-cabber revolver.
Behind his ear was a bullet wound, the bull
.et lodging just under the skin OF the left
eye.
The dead body of the woman lay 10 his
right with bullethole under her left ear.
The pillow on which her head rested was
powder burned and saturated with blood
flowing from the two wounds. The
pillow being saturated with chlorofOrm
shows that he first chloroformed her into
Inconsistencies and then shot her. Her
arms were folded over her breast and her
face was as calm as if in sleep, and as
II unconscious of the terrible doom that
awaited her. There was no sign Of q strug-
gle, and she evidently died without waken-
ing from her slumber.
An adjoining r0Omer said he heard
what he thought to be pistol shot about
daylight, but did not hear the second shot.
The theory is that Walden killed the woman
and then wrote the letters before killing
himself for it was his voice that answered
the summons to breakfast. Two chambers
Of the pistol were empty.
j he man is about thirty-fve years of age,
heavy head Of hair and mustache, strong
and muscular
The woman is about twenty-five years,
blonde, brown eyes and hair.
Walden wrote the following letter TO the
landIady: Mrs. Payne-This lady, Mrs. C. j.
Walden. is not my WIFE but has come be-
tween Us and so destroyed my happiness. We
both agreed to end our lives tonight. Now
you viii find letter on the table
addressed to Mrs T NJ. Walden, Vernon.
Tex. and you will please mail it at once
and then have the undertaken to put US in
a hospital coffin. embalm US and ship US to
Vernon, Tex, at once, and when you get
our bodies on the cars telegraph Mrs. T. NJ
Walden Immediately. / have $500 in the
Arkansas national bank, and my wife will
pay on demand. Put on my best suit of
clothes and Lulas best dress and ship the
trunk and yalise to Vernon, and wire c. J.
Walden, Moberly, Mo, to go on to Vernon,
Tex. Lula is his wife. You will find more
money in my vest pocket to pay our board
(Signed.) L. N. WALDEN"
A bill of sale was found in which S. S.
Hooker conveyed, last July, for $1,000, his
half interest in 4 carpet and paper store 10
deceased. The instrument shows that
they had been partners at Denton,
Tex. There was also a paid up life
policy for $500 in the New York mutual
life taken out one year ago in favor of his
wife, Ada H. Walden; also lease bearing
date of the present year for his dwelling
house in Vernon, Tex. The deceased had
written and stamped four letters for mail
ing. One was directed TO his wife, Ada H
Walden, Vernon. Tex, and another
10 c. J. Walden, Moberly, Mo,
to whom he alludes in his |
letter and who is probably the husband of |
the woman he murdered. On the table |
We're also found blank envelopes contain |
ing the addresses of ladies', evidently mar
ried, in Vernon and Fort Worth. There |
IVES found only 81. Concealed about the |
wOman's person was bill of sale from her |
10 her husband of her furniture, ETC., in |
Vernon valued at So. She had, also, jew |
els of small value. The coroner's jury rem
dered verdict that he murdered the |
woman and then committed suicide.