Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-06-29
Mrs. Carrie Reid Shot and Killed
By a Salesman Named Fred
Hunt.
Unrequited Love Seems to Have
Been the Cause of a Murder
and a Suicide.
The Murdered Woman the Wife of
One Known Here as Harry
. -" Griffin.
A Sad Story of Misfortune, Which
Has Blighted the Lives of
Several Persons.

CHICAGO, June 26.-Mrs. Carrie Reid
employed uas a book-keeper in an office
on Black Hawk street, was shot and
killed to-day by an unknown man, who
Immediately afterwards shot and killed
himself.
The murderer rushed into the Office
where Mrs. Reid was at work, and call
his victim outside the office, a short and
excited conversation ensued. The man
suddenly fred five shots at Mrs. Reid,
killing her instantly, and then sent two
bullets into his own brain, falling dead
on the woman's body.
The only clue to his identity is the
name "Hunt' found on his undercloth-
ing, and the fact that Mrs. Reid called
him Fred.
Mrs. Reid's husband, who is said to be
a defaulter, is now, the police think, in
Bismarck, N. D.
CHICAGO, June 26.-The man who
murdered Mrs. Carrie Reid and then
shot himself has been identified as Fred
E. Hunt, a salesman for the Chicago
Coal company. He is a brother.in-law
of A. Augustus, vice president of the
company.
It was supposed he was in love with
Mrs. Reid, who, though married, was
not living with her husband.
T~ragedy's chains link together beings a
Thousand miles apart. The details of
crime are flashed across a thousand
miles of wire, and are heard, and read,
and forgotten. And yet in some in
stances, as the one above recorded, a
CRIME occurs, and is published to the
world at one end of the distance so easily
traversed by the telegraph, while at the
other, one whose heart is destined to be
torn and whose eyes are fated to be
scalded with the bitter tears Of SORROW,
may rest in utter ignorance of the hap
pening which concerns him so deeply
aid closely, until the bodies of loved
ones lies cold in the death so rudely
wrought. Ties may be severed, and
their severance be unknown to one of
those who are bound by them, until
hours afterward, when the shock comes
so severely as to stun, completely, and to
PROSTATE by it's very intensity of bit
terness.
Some months ago, there came to the
city from the east, a young man, who
gave his name as Harry Griffin. His
name was rightly, W. B. J. Reid, and his
home, in Chicago, and upon the circum-
stances of his change of name and home,
hangs a tale of tragedy which is sad,
even beyond expression. Reid was
formerly a board of trade operator in
Chicago, and a successful one. He had
charge Of an Office on change, and was
the recipient Of a fair income. Five
years ago, he met with, and marie Miss
Carrie Casteel, daughter of H. D. Cas-
teel, of SIT Park Place. The bride was
a young girl, handsome, v~ivacious, and
idolized by her husband. He gave her
the comforts of a we'll kept home, and
granted her every wish the qualification
of which lay within his power. Then-as
he reiterated in broken accents this
morning, when informed of the calamity,
and when his head rested between his
hands, and tears coursed down his
cheeks-he idolized her, and in the five
years of their married life, there was no
suspicion Of trouble to mar their happi-
ness.
About six months ago, he %speoulated
more heavily than usual, and the specu-
lation turned out disastrously. He en-
deavored to recoup, and lost. He be-
came involved, as is the fate of many who
are drawn, almost resistlessly into the
maelstrom Of speculation, and, ruined in
fortune, he was forced to leave his home.
He came to Bismarck, and has been here
since that time. He has been in com
%munication with his wife regularly since
his departure from Chicago. and in none
Of the letters was there any portent Of
the impending tragedy. Two days ago,
he heard from her last, and the letter
was Of the same character as the others
that of a loving wife to an absent hus-
band. ss
Harry Griffin, or Reid, had no intima.
ton OF the blow which was about to tall
until the middle of this forenoon, when
he was approached by q newspaper cor
respondent with q telegram, asking for
particulars Of him. The shock
was a stunning one, and Incredible. Fur,
ther kilograms corroborated the first