The herald., 1893-10-17
CRIMES CARNIVAL IN RIVERSIDE.
The Bloodiest Tragedy in the
City's History.
An Injured Husband Murders His
Unfaithfal Spouse.
He Cuts Her Throat Then Blows or His
Own Head-A Horse Doctors
Spree Ended by a Fatal
Dose of Morphine.
sne cial to iha HERALr.

RIVERSIDE, Oct. 16.-The bloodiest
tragedy that has occurred in this city
for the past 10 years was enacted TODAY.
w. E. Wrisley killed his wife and then
pulled the trigger of a shot gun and
blew off his own head, shortly before l
O'Clock this afternoon.
For some time Wrisley had suspected
that his wife was not faithful to her
marrisge vows, and last Friday night he
set watch to catch her. He was re-
warded by seeing a man enter the house.
He secured the assistance of policeman
and went to the house. The officer
knocked on the front door and informed
the woman who he was, but she delayed
opening the door. The man attempted
to escape, but was caught. The erring
wife appeared before the police court
next day, pleaded guilty to the charge
OF keeping house of ill-fame and was
fined S25, with the understanding that
it would be withheld as long as she be-
haved herself. The court excluded all
the spectators from the room, and she
made statement in which che laid the
blame at the door of her husband.
Wrisley, who was we'll liked by all
who knew him and was considered an
industrious and faithful husband, broGd-
ed over the affair till he became desper-
ate. From the way the affair was car
ried out he doubtless planned all the
details and carried them out to the let
ter. His wife, whom he had not lived
with since September 1st, had an
nounced that che was going to San
Francisco. Today, about 1890. she
went up town to get an sxpressman to
move her trunk to the depot, and from
the manner in which the killing was ac-
complished it appears that Wrisley went
to the house where che lived, which is
Just in the rear of the Park hotel, at the
corner of Market and Eighth streets.
When she returned he struck her over
the head with castiron window weight
and then cut her throat with four-inch
dirk knife, almost severing the head
from the trunk. The knife was left
sticking in her neck.
He rushed from the scene of the crime
to his room in the Park hotel. where he
had been stopping. The proprietor mo-
ticed his hurry, but thought nothing OF
it till he heard the discharge OF gun.
Upon investigation Wrisley was found
lying on the floor dead.
The proprietor gave the alarm inn
mediately. An officer soon arrived at
the hotel, and, going to the cottage in
the rear, found the body of Mrs. Wris-
ley lying on the bed, partly disrobed,
with her throat cut. The blood had
dripped through the bedding aud
formed a pool on the floor. and her
breast, hands and arms were covered
with clotted gore.
Returning to the room in which Wris-
ley lay, a more sickening sight present.
ed itself. The whole right side of his
head was blown away. The weapon, a
single barreled. breech-loading shotgun,
lay by his side. The body lay in pool
of blood. while the sides of the room
and ceiling were spattered with blood
stand and in fact everything in the
pieces of the skull.
In bank book found on the suicides
person communication was found
he had become the object of too much
and had concluded to end his life. He
said his wife had informed him that she
loved another, and that he could not
live and see her enjoy the affections of
another man. He alto wrote letter to
his frsternal friends, the l. o. o. F.
lodge of this city, in which he asked
them to bury his body with all the rev.
erence due him, and thanked them for
all the kindness they had bestowed upon
him. He bid his old friend. Charlie
Wood, goodbye in very affectionate
manner on the same sheet of paper,
and also asked the undertaken to see
that he was buried in his canton uni
form.
The following was doubtless written
last:
"She says she loves another; that
settles it; if can't have her, no one
else shall. Here goes. Everything is
ready. Today we will die Goodbye,
every body w. L. W.
"P. ST. do not wish to live longer.
If we cannot live together in this world,
perhaps we may in the next. love her
still, call me what they will"
In the same book, which is First
National bank book of Los Angeles, is a
deposit for $400, recorded October 5th.
The city marshal has telegrsphed
word of the affair to Mrs. Merrill, Mrs.
Wrisley's mother, at San Francisco.
Mr.. Wrisley requested in d letter
found on the stand that Mr.. o. L. Leach
of Northfield Farm, Macs, should be
notified of his death.
The bodies were removed to George
F. Wards undertaking establishment
where an inquest was held. The jury
returned verdict of murder in the case
Of Mrs. Wrislev, at the hands OF hel
husband. 1t decided that Wrisley had
suicided.
The suicide was under $500 bonds fol
arson, as he was supposed to have eel
FIRE to his residence September 9th.
The bodies will be buried tomorrow
thus ending the last chapter in their sad
lives.
ONE MORE UNTORTUNATE.