Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-06-10
DISHONOR AND DEATH
FEARFUL TRAGEDY INA LINCOLN
HOTEL Dining noon.
President Montgomery OF the German
National Bank of Lincoln shot Dead
by w. II. ursfie Of salt Lake.

, ing room OF the Hotel Lincoln a few
minutes before 8 O'clock this morning
by W. II. Irvine. II wealthy bushes:
man OF Salt Lake City. The shooting.
together with the incidents leading Tn
to 1T form one OF the greatest TRACE
dies in the criminal annals OF Lincoln.
The prominence OF the parties, the
scene of the tragedy ami its enactment
In the presence OF so many distin-
guished citizens OF Nebraska on the
occasion of one OF the greatest ceie-
brations in the history OF the state
marx 1t as one OF the most sensational
affairs OF the kind that ever occurred
in the state.
MIR. Montgomery was seated at the
breakfast table in the Hotel Lincoln
lie sat at the first table to the right of
ana half facing the door He was
quietly chatting with i. S. Smith.
Mr. irvine walked up the stairway
ana pauslng In the entrance of the
dining room glanced over the room,
evidently in search OF his victim. His
eyes rested upon Mr.. Montgomery and
then he walked toward him, approach
Ing him from the opposite side OF the
table,
Montgomery started to raise, and as
he did SO Irvine drew revolver from
his right hip pocket and shouting.
'D-you you've ruined my wife and
daughter fired two shots point blank
at his defenseleSss and surprised vic
tim.
Both shots took effect in the region
OF the heart. Inc wounded man sta~-
gered around the table toward his muir
oerer, out OF the dining room door
and fell with gasp to the floor He
was at once picked up and carried into
parlor on the same floor, but life
was already extinct. He did not speak
after he had been shot
When the reports from Irvine's re-
volyer rang through the room the peo-
pie at the table sprang to their feet in
excitement auG several rushed to the
assistance OF the murdered man, while
others seized Irvine, who held the still
smoking weapon in his hand.
AS the people crowded around him
irvine almost shouted, That man out
ragged my wife at the Curtis hotel in
Chicago on the 9th of last February.
I've got the papers here to prove it
and want to give myself up
AS he spoke he held aloft in his
hand number OF papers and tele-
grams.
Immediately after the shooting
Irvine completely collapsed. Even as
he spoke his head rolled from side to
side as ii he was suffering from some
intense nervous shock. Then he broke |
down and sobbed like child. In this |
conoition he was conveyed to the po- |
lice station. Soon afterwards he was |
placed in n hack and taken to the pen |
iteutiary for safer keeping. No one
Is admitted to see him except his at
torneys.
In the papers which Irvine surren-
dered to the police is a confession OF
Mrs. Irvine of her forced intimacy
with Montgomery.
Attorney Robert w. Patrick of
Omaha was an eyewitness OF the trag-
eoy Il was at breakfast and was sit
ting at table with Augustus Kountze
ana u. Nj. Hitchcock. near the center
oil the dining rooom, and Montgomery
was at table close to the dining room
noor at the right as you enter sitting
with MS lace toward the door. |
heard report like a pistol shot. but
supposed some one had thrown a tor
pedo on the floor as n Joke. Before
could turn around. another shot was
bred. then saw Montgomery wilt
down and fall forward, holding his
hand to mis- heart. | supposed at first
mat ne had accidentally shot himself
until l turned toward the door ami
saw Irvine standing there holding his
revolver in his hand ana pointing it
toward Montgomery. Irvine was Just
inside the dining room door and was
separated from Montgomery only by
he width OF the table at which Mont
yomery was seated.
Montg omery rose from the table and
staggered back with his hand over his
heart cAclaiming, my God, I've been
mot. lie turned from the door
ana then around into the aisle. between
ne tables and out into the hallway
ma fell dead almost Irvine's feet.
Inc cause OF the shooting was I'M
ionotedly lrvine's belief that his wife
RAD been deoauched oy Montgomery.
irvine claims to have positive proois
'f the fact Gossip is flying thick and
asst ana a great many sensational de-
'elopments may be expected. Irvine
lrrlved from the west on an early train
MS morning and lost no time in seek
ng his victim. Mrs. Irvine whose
lame has been so prominently men,
lohea In the affair. visited her friends
n this city last winter and then went
o illinois to visit her mother. MIR.
ina Mrs. Irvine nave been married
ioont twelve years and have bright
little daughter 10 years of age.
Z. Il. Montgomery the murdered
nan. was bachelor about 10 years of
'ge ana was ono of the wealthiest men
u Lincoln. He was the owner of the
montgomery block ana was president
II the German national bank. He had
arge real estate interests in Lincoln
nd Salt Lake, in which latter city he
nd Irvine were jointly interested in
ONE large investments He was
'rother of Mrs. Colonel Polk of Lin
DIN. He had just returned from La
'orte, lex, where he was interested
With General Thayer, Auditor Benton
ma others in the 1ownsite and Har-
or company.
william II. Irvine came to Lincoln
bout six years ago from Mt Vernon.
J., with cons n era nla MANA,