The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-02
MEN AND WOMEN.
A Husband Finds Another Man
With His Wife
And Begins Shooting, Putting Three Bullets
Into the Paramour and One
Into His Wife.
rSpecialto THR HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. !

| [Specialto THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.]
WASHINGTON, June 1.-Shortly after
o'clock yesterday morning fashionable
apartment house at No. 6O4 Twelfth stree,
was the scene Of a sensational tragedy, the
particulars of which are even more start
| ling than the plot of Tolstoi's "Kreutzer
Sonata"
At that hour George F. Lecointe, dap
per and hot-headed Frenchtnan, burst open
the door OF his room and found his hand
some American wife with Charles c. Frost,
New York electrical engineer Frost and
the woman made an effort to escape. but
Lecointe had anticipated what was going
on in his rooms, and with revolver opened
fire on the guilty couple. When he emptied
the last chamber Of the weapon three balls
had taken effect on Frost and one on his
WIFE In an instant the whole house was
in an uproar, and the frenzied husband
rushed down into the street proclaiming
his action. He was taken in charge by the
police. FrosG had dragged himself out of
the room and managed TO get through the
window and out on the adjoining roof Mrs
Lecointe had also made her escape in the
same manner, and not being so badly
wounded as Ler paramount. crawled along
INC iOOl dEu AL " Optu WlUOOW OF the
Globe hotel, which adioius the prem
ises. The injured couple were taken to the
Emergency hospital, where il was found
Frost had bullet in his abdomen. which
the physicians pronounced fatal. Another
bullet mad taken effect IN his chin and
third pierced his shoulder. Mrs. Lecointe's
injury was not so serious, the bullet enter
ing her side and lodged in the tleshy part,
from which it was soon extracted.
Frost came tn Washington fo~ xuaaIya
ago with tall and handnome blonde, who
gave her name as Miss Eaton. She took
rooms at the same apartment house as the
LecoIntes resided at and announced she had
come to Washington TO study art. Occu-
pants Of the house soon discovered Miss
Eaton's art studies consisted largely of her
admiration of Frost. He was observed
entering and emerging from her rooms at
all hours. But finally he tired of her and
began paying attention to pretty Mrs
Lecointe. About the same time Mr.. Le-
cointe discovered Miss Eaton was a very
attractive woman and there appeared to be
a mutual agreement, by which there was a
general transfer of affections. Lecolnte,
however, tired of the arrangement and set
a trap to catch his wife and Frost. He is
employed in the record division of
the war department, and SATURDAY.
being a holiday, he announced ne was
going to Baltimore, to remain till
Monday. Frost accompanied Lecointe to
the depot and saw him safely of. He re-
turned to the house and it seems that pre-
paratiens were made for a nights orgie
without the assistance of Lecointe. Miss
Eaton announced that for certain reasons
she was not able TO Join in the perform
ance, but she very kindly surrendered her
room to Mrs. Lecointe and her new lover.
the adjoining room herself. Ls-
cointe returned from Baltimore early in the
evening and kept watch on the windows
Of his apartments. Their seven year old
son was asleep in one of the rooms, and his
shrieks added to the din when the shooting
began.
Lecointe has always been jealous of his
Of his beautiful young wife, and on numer-
BUS occasions has abused her for receiving
attention from other men. OF late he has |
been drinking heavily. One peculiar |
feature of the case is that Lecointe and his |
different stories of the affair. Miss Eaton |
denies she was intimate With Lecoinse or |
Frost. Frost admits that he has been in
innate with Miss Eaton, but denies that he |
and Mrs. Lecointe did wrong. Mrs. Le-
,ointe says it was true she was
n the loom with Frost, but saws
she went in to administer TO Miss Eaton
who was sick. Frost tried to make all ex-
olanation as 10 how he came to be in Miss
Eaton's room, but his condition was such
hat his statement was disconnected and
Miss Eaton has been arrested.
md is detained at the Twelfth street sta
ion. Lecointe is at the same place, and
II day long has been regretting that he did
lot succeed in killing both his wife and
Frost. Some Of the detectives are holding
o the theory that Miss Eaton and Lecointe
lad planned to kill both Frost and Mrs. Le-
ointe, SO as to get them out of their way.
They say they will be able to produce evil
ence to show that the Frenchman and
woman were working in collision, and
hat the latter arranged so that Locointe
would find them in q compromising posi-
ion, to Kill them and depend on being &C
uitted by the jury as a nan who had
venged his honor. Mrs. Lecointe has been I
emoved to the homo of her parents. who !
re heartbroken over The occurrence. |,
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