Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-11
HE RAN HISCOURSE
YOUNG SIMON SHIRE COULDN'T STAND TIE
PACE BE HAD SET HIHSRLE.
BE Wouldn't Stay at Home, and Hs Would Have
Plsasurs-Whsn His Father Became Dis
gus!sd and Minnie Dalton Wsarisd
&c Shot Himself in the Head.

NEW YORK, July 1O.-Simeon Shire,
the third son of Jacob Shire, Of 100 East
Sixty-frst street, has been causing his
parents all sorts of anxieties for the
past ear. Jacob Shire is member OF
| the firm of Millus, Shire & Co., manu-.
| faeturers of mems furnishing goods, al
6, s and 10 Great Jones street. Simeon
was strongly built, good-looking young
man with dark hair and dark eyes. He
liked good clothes and he liked fast So
ciety, and spent much money in fellow
ing its gaslight wanderings. Although
he would not have been twenty years
old until September, he knew all the ins
and outs OF fast life and was proud OF
his reputation.
About year ago Simeon quickened
his already lively pace and made the
money fly. Jacob Shire, who loves or
der, has had rack in his hallway in
which are slides. On each slide is the
name of one OF the members of his fam
ily. When anyone Of the family is out,
his slide is out. When he comes in, his
slide is put in. Simeon Shire's slide
was behaving in chaotic manner, and
Jacob Shire grew more and more an
noyed.
Six months ago Simeon's slide con-
tracted the habit Of being out for a
week at time, and Mr.. Shire began to
investigate. He soon found the cause
In curly headed young woman from
Chicago named Minnie Dalton or Griffin.
She came from Chicago last fall, and at
some public ball in the winter she mt :
young Shire. She was living at 331
West Fifty-ninth street and with an
other woman, the Widow Griffin, and a
young woman known as Carrie. Simeon
Shire Became frequent visitor at the
apartment so frequent that his name
was put on the letter box above Mrs.
Grifin's name; not his name exactly,
but Sidney Shire. For the foolish boy
or the curly-headed young woman was
ashamed of the name Simeon, and
thought Sidney sounded moro aristo-
cratic. They say that when Jacob
Shire demanded of Simeon why he was
letting young woman call him esd"
the young man replied that he proposed
TO marry her.
Simeon continued to go to the apart
ment in defiance Of his fathers orders,
and in some way Simeon got hold of
plenty OF money. A few weeks ago Mrs.
Griffin and Carrie and Miss Dalton
Griffin packed up their traps and moved
to S47 West Fifty-ninth street. They
had the first floor fat, and furnished 1t
i'm q style that was rather gaudy. On
Tuesday evening "Sid" went home and
after dinner he started to go out. His
father stopped him and asked where he
was going. A storm followed, and Jacob
Shire told his boy that be could give up
this girl or leave the house for good.
Simeon remarked that he would neither
give up the girl nor quit coming home,
and then departed.
Miss Dalton-Grif1in Is authority for
what passed at her fat She says that
Simeon reached there about 9 o'clock.
He was dressed in light suit and a
straw hat: He was in state OF wrath
and dependency. He was not pleased
with Miss Daltop-Grifiin behavior in
some ways and he was blue about the
way things went on at home. Miss
Dalton Griffin has some rather shrewed
brains beneath her fluffy curls, and she
saw clearly that she would be great
fool to bind herself to diSinherited and
helpless youth of 49, She gave Simeon
no consolation and told him that home
was the best place for him.
"Sid" pleaded and wept and grew wilder
every minute. He pulled out a revolver
and flourished it. He said death was
preferable to a life made joyless by her
absence. He also said that he had
family troubles which he had not told
hee. She listenGJ to his harangues for
several hours-until nearly - o'clock
and then she lay down on lounge and
closed her eyes languidly. This enthu-
siastic boy, with his revolver and his
passion loved her.
When the boy saw that she was no
longer listening he stopped his plead
ing, rose, took his hat, and walked over
to her side. She opened her eyes and
saw that he was looking down at her
with sad expression in his eyes. He
stopped over, kissed her on the fore
head, and said in choked way: Good
by, Minniem
"Good bye!" said tho girl, without
rising. The boy walked over to the
door and stood there, fumbling his hat
and looking at her. 81 want to write
something" he said presently. 81
think I'll 90 into the bedroom" And,
as she said nothing he walked past her
into the bedroom, which is separated
from the parlor by portiere. She
could hear his pencil SCRATCHING on a
sheet Of paper which he had put upon
the dresser in front OF the glass. He
wrote for four or five minutes. Then
she no longer heard the scratching OF
the pencil. She was almost doing.
There was pistol shot-heavy,
deafening. She started up and through
the smoke she saw him lying on the
floor. She laughed and then she walked
into the bedroom. "Sid" was joking TO
scare her. She went in and STOPPING
down pulled at his sleeve. "Quit fool
ing, Sid" she said, 'and get up and go
| home"
But "Sid" didn't get up. So she half
turned him over, aud then she saw a
black hole in his forehead, with blood
trickllng down. She let go of him, and
as his head rolled back she screamed
again and again. Then DR., j. p. Henry
was called. He said that the body had
died instantly. A messenger was sent
with a note to Jacob Shire's house, and
the police came.
At 3 o'clock yesterday morning Jacob
Shire and his son Albert and friend Of
Albert's, Detective Newcomb, came.
Jacob Shire stayed on the door step un-
I'll they had got the woman out OF the
way. Then he came in and looked at
the boy and read the note he left. 1t
was scrawed on q bill head OF the firm
| "a AIil,,s Shirn & Co II asked The