The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-16

OMAHA, NEB., Nov. 15.-Tho muster
OF tho northwestern division of the
Salvation Army Mt Omaha 10 meet La
Marchalo Booth-Clibborn, OF France,
has terminated in 4 tragedy. sad, sud.
den and inexplicablc. While yet the
bell oil tho army's headquarters in
Omaha tolled curicw like the requiem
ior a dead Sunday, and the soldiers were
filing slowly out OF the barracks, the
sound OF pistol shot rang out above
the notes of the bell, and with q groan
one oi tho army's captains fell 10 the
pavement, blood gushing from her
mouth and nostrils. Her body had not
yet lodged on the sidewalk when the
second report from the pistol was heard
and private rcclcd from the ranks, and
stagseringa stop or two, ioll dead in
The gutter, her soul winginS, away amid
the cloud OF smoke from her own pistol.
1t was just after o'clock in the
evening and the army forces had gath
cred at the barracks for the purpose OF
making its usual parade prior to SER
vices. The presence i'll Omaha OF the
official heads OF the army in
France and America, La Marchale
Booth Clibborn and her brother.
Commissioner Ballington Booth, had
drawn mthcr all the forces of this di-
vision, which includes Iowa, Minnesota,
the Dakotas and Nebraska. For four
days the army has held daily and night
ly demonstrations and the work was
seemingly meeting with great success.
The real motive for the fearful double
crime is not SO clear as it might be, but
the indications point to Il rather queer
combination OF jealousy and scmi-re-
ligions frenzy. However obscure may
be the motive that .prompted
tho deed, its results stand out
only too plainly, for the body Of
Nettie Birdloc!s, the murdcress and
suicide, rests on 4 marble slab at the
city morguc, and her victim, Captain
Hattie Smith, oil the Salvation band at
Oskaloosa, Iowa, is awaiting in untold
agony the final extinsuishment OF the
vital spark at her temporary boarding
|'placo Oh Davenport street.
y resident physician, who had been
summoned to the bedside OF Captain
Smith, said thcwound certainly would
prove fatal. As she lay on the bed, rap.
idly sinking toward death, Captain
Smith spoke few words concerning
the deed and its motive. :
There was L meeting at the army bar
racks yesterday afternoon and the Bied-
Ter woman seems to have been there,
but whether she was there during the
entire meeting is not known. At
the close OF the service she was
in the rear portion OF the
church and sent up word TO Captain
Smith that she wanted to talk with her.
The latter replied to the messenger that
she was busy then and could not grant
her request, but after eating lunch went
back and talked to the Biedler woman
for some time.
What was said by either OF them is
unknown, as the only person who
noticed what was going on was Lieu.
tenant Mary Bannistock, who carried
Miss Biedlers' message to Captain
Smith.
In m interview Lieutenant Bannis.
took states that she saw the captain 20
back and engage i'll conversation with
the woman and it was SO far away she
could hear nothing.
One OF the other officers, Captain
Wallace, told the lieutenant to call the
captain, rs she wished her to 20 with
her Captain Wallacc) down
to her boarding house. The
meeting had closed about 4:SO and
it was then an hour later, tho officers
having had their lunch served there at
the church, and the lieutenant told
Captain Smith to hurry as they must
get back in time for the meeting in the
evening ut the First Presbyterian
church.