, 1892-12-03
A Woman SGOTned Takes Swift
and Sudden Vengeance.
Details of a Sickening Murder.
The Woman Claims to Have
Been the Wife of the Olympia
Editor and Publisher She Ac-
knOwIedges She Did the Killing.

Thomas Henderson Boyd, editor an,
proprietor of the Morning Olympiau of thi
city, was shot and killed last night in Sc
attic by a woman named Ursula J. Un
fug, alias Gypsy Ashton, who is now il
Jail and hysterical. She claims to be hi
wife. She is a dark complexioned, hand
some featured woman, about 2S years 0
years of age, the product of a Holland ia
ther and a Mexican woman. She was born
it is said, in Chihuahua. Mexico. Boyd be
came infatuated with her while she was liv
ing in a house of prostitution below tht
dead line in this city, about three years ago
She has lived at Butte, Montana; Fairha
ven, Seattle and other places since that
time. In Seattle, Boyd had her living in
private roos. Occasionally she came tC
this city to see him.
BoYDs BODY
is now lying on marble slab at the un.
dertaking establishment of Bonney & Stew
art The shooting occurred shortly after
10 O'Clock. There were no eye witnesses to
the shooting, which occurred at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Lilly ]. Kennedy, at No. 3lC
j u hlltktu. bONN
had been rOOming of late. The woman
claims to be his wife by contract marriage.
She went to Seattle on the 10Th of last Feb
ruary, but with whom it is not known.
| Boyd has been cohabiting with her for
three years. She was arrested a few min
utes after the fatal shots we're fired.
The tragedy is said to be the outgrowth
Of an unhappy secret marriage, hut ii sis
safe 70 say thaJno marriage ever took place
/ between them. He had a bitter quarrel
/ with her at her rooms last night, when be
! flung himself out Of the place and caroused
! from one saloon to another. She went out
| into the streets to hunt for him. A Seattle
/ newspaper says she hired hack at Second
/ and Cherry streets and ordered the hack
man to drive to the Northern hotel and in
quire for Boyd. Not finding him there she
/ went to Clancy u Burns and learned there
that he had gone TO the Post-Intelligencer
Office. Then she went to the Post-Intelli.
| gencer office, went again past the Northern
to the Occidental and met him there on the
way from Clancy Burns to the Post-In-
telligencer Office
Together they went to the house at 80
James street, arriving there at 10 rs O'Clock.
/ They entered the room and before they had
taken of their outer garments the tragedy
was enacted.
Four pistol shots in quick succession
aroused every person in the house. The
b
and Mr.. Reed, whose room is near to
Boyds' rushed in.
There he saw Boyd lying on the floor
with his head on tho bed rail. Blood
covered his face and he saw at once he was
dead. Prone on the floor, short distance
from him, lay the woman, to all appear
ances also dead, a revolver in her hand.
Mr.. Reed Immediately sent word to po-
lice headquarters and in a few moments
Chief Jackson and Captain Hogle we're on
the scene.
When they entered the room they beheld
sight CHASTITY beyond description. There,
against the head of the bed, his face all
covered with blood, a gaping hole in his
! left temple and half burnt cigar in his
mouth, was the limp, lifeless form of
Thomas Henderson Boyd.
The picture was made more tragic by the
woman's form clinging to the body, her
| lips whispering:
"Oh, my darling husband 1t can't be
| that you are dead. Let me whisper to you. y
She pressed her dark, handsome face to
| his ear, and, as she whispered low and in
weird and insane tones, she brought hel
cheek in contact with the fresh blood clOt
ted about his left temple.
AT THEIR ROOMS.
As Captain Hogle raised her up be
found the revolver on the floor near her
! hand. HIS hastily examined it and saw
! that four chambers of it had been emptied
AS he went out Of the room with Mrs
Boyd on his arm he told this discovery tC
/ Chief JacksOn, and search was Immediate
ly begun for traces of the bullets.
The room is about 12x14 feet and faces OF
James street. Occupying the central par
of the room, with its head to the east, was
the bed and it was between the front win.
dow and the head of the bed that BoyC
stood when the shooting occurred. HI
had fallen forward and his head huns
down and against the bed rail. His leg
were curled up under him and the onll
sign of a wound was in the left temple, but
on closer examination it was found that
bullet had entered his body just below tin
navel.
Back of him was found a shot imbeddeC
in the wall, and in the north end of tn
room, about eight feet from the floor, wa
the mark of another bullet, and sticking
from the hole were fine hairs, indicatinj
that it had grazed his head in its course.
Directly under the spot where the las
mentioned bullet struck stood the com
mode and to the left Of it was the mantle
nicely decorated with bric-a-brac an
pictures, among the latter being one Of Nj
Boyd. In the fire place a coal fire burnet
/ brightly and gave a cheerful aspect to th
!. room in strong contrast to the TRACED
that had been enacted. At the foot Of th
I bed stood a center table on which weI
! books, writing material and a piece {
/ brown paper.
Chief Jackson found that this was a tel,
gram from Thomas Henderson Boyd, date
at Olympia, December /, to Mrs. U.
Boyd, 80 James street, reading as 70
+ lows
D "Will try to come tomorrow, Multi,
N nah answer if satisfactory. T. II. B."
: A half-eaten piece Of lemon pie con
pleted the inventory Of the table. In Il
southwest corner was a bookcase PARTIAL
filled with standard books, and betwee
y the two windows on the street side of Il
room stood the bureau. Nothing was o
} served beyond the ordinary toilet article
r but the top drawer was open a little wa
e giving the impression that the woman ha
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