, 1892-12-07
He Shoots Himself, and Both
Lie Dead Together.
He Hid in Her Room and Slew
Her on Her Return From the
Opera, Without Speaking a
Word She Had Refused to
Marry Him.
Marry Him.

SEATTLE, December Mrs. Marie S.
Storey, one Of the most beautiful and ac-
complished women in the city, was MUIR
dered last night in her room at 4i6 Marion
street, by Charles Rogers Moulton, dis
carded lover, who Immediately afterwards
committed suicide. Mrs. Storey had lust
returned from the theater, and, passing
through the room in which her two little
children slept into her own room, stood in
front Of the mirror, smiling at some pleas
ant incident Of the evening, when Moulton.
who had been pressing his suit for nine or
ten months without success, and whose in
fatuation had reached the point Of insan-
ity, stepped from closet and fired shot
at her. She fell dead on the floor, face
downward, without uttering a word.
He fired another shot which shattered
the mirror, and then stepped to the bed be-
hind her and fired a third into his mouth.
which ended his existence. They were
found a minute afterwards, dead on the
floor close together, Mrs. Storey with the
smile still on her face, Moulton's features
hidden by his own blood.
Mrs. Storey, in company with Mrs. H. T.
Harmon, who lives directly across the
street, went early in the evening to the the.
ater TO witness the performance of the
Duff Opera company. There she was seen
and spoken to by NUMBER Of her friends.
She stood in the foyer several minutes ad-
miriug the house and remarked 10 friend
that she had never loved Seattle so before.
and that the theater had brought a new
source OF happiness into her life. During
the performance she sat in the parquet
circle, row M on the left side. and appeared
greatly amused at the operatta, "Trial by
jury" As she left the theater she stopped
in the foyer to talk with several friends and
was particularly gracious to child whom
she evidently had not seen for some times
went directly home and bade Mrs.
Aanuon good night at the gate.
OpOn entering the house Mrs Storey went
upstairs. At the head Of the stairway, TO
the le't, was the door to a room occupied
by Major Hilder, of Washington CITY. who
has had his lodgings there for some time.
Mrs. Storey heard him stirring about in his
room, ann raped on his door saying:
We Just come home from the opera.
Good night"
Good night" responded Major Hilder,
81 hope you had pleasant time"
Mrs. Storey then passed through the
room at the head Of the stairs, where her
two sons, Percy, aged 13, and Colin, aged
10, were asleep. She passed to kiss them
good night, and little Colin says he aWoke
when his mother caressed him.
She then passed through a small entry
formed by the laundry at the head of the
back or servants stairway into her own
room, which was in the rear of the house.
What happened after that can only be
told by the awful sight that met the eyes
Of those who entered few moments later
Mrs. Storey's CHEEKY good night had
hardly died on Colonel Hilder's ears when
he heard three mufiied noises, which he
says he thought sounded like the breaking
of sticks of wood followed by crashing Of
glass. He thought it came from below and
went there TO Investigate, but finding
nothing wrong returned upstairs.
Some impulse caused him to 20 to Mrs.
Story's room. He went to the door, and,
receiving no response to his knock, pushed
it open.