The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-12-18
THE WORK OF a SUSPECTED
COLLECTION CLERK.
TWO INSPECTORS BADLY WOUNDED.
Thn Blows His own Brains out and Dies
shortly Afterward-Sensati ationai Trag-
edy In the Council BIurs, Iowa,
Citizens state Bank Suicide
of Nelson Morris chief
Cattle Buyer.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. Dec. l7.--At
II o'clock yesterday tragedy was
enacted in the private Office of the
Citizens State bank of Council Bluffs,
which may result fatally for three
persons John Huntington, assistant
bookkceper and collection clerk,
shot G A. Cromwell OF Minneapolis,
and i, n. Hayden OF Chicago repre-
sentatiyes of the Fidelity n Casualty
company OF New York, aud then
emptied his revolver into his own
brain, iufictin~ q wound from which
he died two hour, later Cromwell
and Hayden. it is Thought, will re.
cover huntington was one Of the
best known men in Council ElutfS
and numbered his friends by the
hundreds so far rs can be learned.
he had no bad habit, aud this i, whai
make his act the harder to explain.
Huntington had been accused OF
embezlling a 500 check and the fidel.
ity representative were sent here
from New York last Friday To- make
an investigation. They cross. exam
ined each Of the bank employees
through whose hands the missing
check had passed aud among the
rest, huntington. They claimed TO
have discovered that he had been
spending more money than the salary
of S45 a month, which he was receiv-
ing, would warrant, and on this fact
and the fact that the check had been
last seen in his hands they based
their suspicious.
Huntington and the represe natives
of the Fidelity company met Saturday
night and made arrangements for
another meeting at tho bank Sunday
morning, when the investigation was
to be resumed At the hour APP
pointed they wcro together, and
Cromwell and Hayden commenced to
put the young man through a running
cross. fire Of questions. President j.
d. EdmundSon and Cashier {. H. Han
nan of ;he bank were present during
most of the Interview The confer
encc had not been in progress more
than fifteen minutes when Hunting
ton rose from his chair, pulled re.
volvcr and commenced firing at the
representatives Of the Fidelity com.
pany.
The revolver he used belonged to
the bank and had been kept in the
desk of G.. Il. Spooner, the paying
teller. The first three were shots
fired at Cromwell, who had taken the
lead in the Interrogation, and oil
three took effect The fourth struck
Hayden, and then Huntington raised
the weapon to his own head and fred.
He fell TO the floor unconscious and
remained so until his death, at l;l5
p. m.
Suicide Of Prominent Cattle Buyer
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec, l7.--David
Tuckhorn, for several years chief
cattle buyer in Kansas City for Mel.
son Morris 81 Co, of Chicago. shot
himself through the head last night
with a 32-calibre revolver in his room
in the Alpha flats, ll0I Penn street
shortly before o'clock. The bullet
penetrated his brain and death was
instantaneous.
Tuckhorn was alone when he did
the deed. He had been drinking
heavily Of late and his friends hint
that he was pursued by woman who
levied blackmail on him aud followed
him with such persistence that she
made life a harden 10 him.