The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
YOU ARE THECAUSE OF IT."
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY At Upton.
William Vaire Murders his Wife and Then
Puts a Bullet Through His Brain-De-
tails Of the Horrible Affair
Ihs Cause.

TIPToN. Jan. 17.-[Special. l-0ne OF the
most terrible and revolving crimes ever
known in the annals of this county was
enacted in this city this morning. Will
lam Naire shot his young wife dead and
then sent q bullet through his brain.
About = O'Clock this morning neighbors
of the murdered and murderer heard pis-
tol shots, but thought nothing strange un-
til about : O'Clock, when some one called
and knocked on the door. Receiving no re-
spouse he looked in at a window. when a
terrible scene met mis- eyes. The coroner
broke in the door, where he found Mrs.
Naire living on the bed lead with a bullet
hole in her lett temple. She had
apparently died without a struggle.
The supposition is that Vaire
had shot her while she was asleep, as she
was lying OF the bed in her night clothes
with the bed-clothes over her, and that
after be saw that she was dead he shot
himself. He was lying on the floor in a
big pool of blood, with a bull ct hole
through his brain and a large thirty-eight
calibre American bulldog revolver under
him. containing one cartridge and four
shells, the Dall entering his right temple
and ranging upward and to the left, going
through and through. His brains were
more than half oozed out. He was still
breathing, but unconscious and unable 10
speak. He can i've but a very short time.
Great excitement prevails. When Mrs.
Darby. mother of the murdered woman,
arrived on the scene she attempted to DO
violence on the PROSTATE form of her SON
in-law, but was restrained by those pres
ent. The sister OF the dying man arrived
at the scene of the tragedy later, and
when she entered the elder Mrs. Darby
greeted her with the remark:
You are the cause Of it-yOu are the
cause of all of it"
Young Naire was a resident of this coun-
", having been raised on a farm twelve
miles northwest of this city. His mother.
n brother and two sisters reside in this
city; so do the parents of the murdered
woman. The couple was married on the
18th of last May, and began housekeeping
at once in the house where the terrible
tragedy was enacted this morning. The
woman was the mother of two children at
the time of her marriage. Neiyhbors saw
that the couple have not been living az
happily together as young married people
should, and that her children were the
cause of most OF their difficulties. IL so
happened that both of their children were
at the home OF her mother on the fatal
night, so Their was no one present to tell
the terrible tale. Naire has been working
at the heading factory here, and it is said
that he told some of his co-laborers at
quitting time yesterday that that day
would be his last. He was an industrious.
hard-wOrking young man, and the shock
will more than likely take his aged and
feeble mother away TO meet him with the
silent majority. as she is now lying very
low with consumption.
Later-Naire is dead and the coroner is
holding an inquest. His verdict will like
ly be that Mrs. Naire came to her death
from a pistol shot at the hands of her hus-
band, and that he died from a pistol shot
by his own hand. The couple was in
rather INDECENT circumstances and will
probably be buried tomorrow at this
place.