New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-28
DOUBLE CRIME or AN ACTOR.
Holm BIGEIOW MURDERS A WOMAN AND
THEN KILLS HIMSELF

THE DEAD GIRL WAS AMY THITL. AN Actress
no INDICATION OF THE MOTIVES FOR THE
TRAGEDY WHICH TOOK PLACE IN
ROOM IN WEST TWENTY -FOURTH-sT
Murder and suicide were committed yesterday
In a furnished room at No. II West twenty
fourth-st There was nothing to indicate any
reason for the mad acts. which were perpetrated
by an actor named John Bigelow in the room OF
Miss Amy Thill. his victim. who was an actress
The woman was about twenty-five years DID, and
pretty She appeared last spring with Joseph
Haworth's company in "Rose1ale" at the Star
Theatre Her room was No. 80, on the third moor
of the house in Twenty -fourth-st which she
had shared with her two sisters Alice ana
Marie since the early part of last summer. Her
sisters who were younger than she, seemed de-
voted TO her The murderer and suicide Bigelow.
a good-looking man Of twenty-eight. was fire.
uuent caller upon them, and was looked upon
as Amy's most intimate friend. 1t was said at
the house that he too had been member OF the
. "Rosedale' company.
Two weeks ago Alice and Marie began an
engagement with Diclson's "lncog company
which was booked for Erie. Penn. Tuesday
night. and after their departure Amy told the
janitor that she should not want her room
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road with company. The other afternoon
Bigelow. who had not been seen about the house
for several weeks called. and they went out to-
rather apparently in good spirits. When she
returned she laughed and announced that she
intended sitting for some new pictures in Fa!ks's
photograph studio. in the same building on Tues-
day.
She did SIT for the pictures and was particu'
lar about her poses As Mr. Falk said yesterday
after the tragedy After the sittngs she went
on, for a while returning at O'Clock IN the
evening and ordering a bottle OF vichy ana
creme De menthe. At midnight her house was
locked up and the watchman declares tnat no
one entered hey room afterward.
The room was In the rear OF the house. and
r.tbar small Next dav AZ noon when she had
not appeared. the Jaritor asked Tor Elmer r
NacKusler the manager OF the house. and eN-
tlained that strange noses had been heard,
and that Miss Thill had not left her room during
the day Mrs. Coleman. the janitors "he'
looked under the hall door and saw enough 10
decide Mr. Mackusl upon pI'ahIHs '''" '''N
f'yirg ON the floor with his head by the foot OF
tn. bed and his feet in the alcove, lay blgeIow
with A wound I'm his right temple. blood WAS
shattered upon the wall. and by ms SIDE was a
/ revolver with four Of the five chamDers emDy,
In the aloove lay the body of Miss Thill, dressed
. uNdtffklTl.
T. nor hand she held a towel Her face was
/ covered with blood one bullet-hole was uhaer
nor left eye another in her left cheek ana 4
| th.ri in tho left side Of the head The man was
sullv dressed on one ~ the bureaus were TWO
Iettcrs in the womans handwriting. one was ad-
dressed = : Karsch. The STANDARD, No: LI3o
/ Roadway" and the other Nine. IhllL NO ''-
/ Mill-st Minneapolis, Mimi. -
II was learned late last night that BlgeloV was
boarding with Mrs. Wadon. at No. 25l West
Thirtv-nfth-st. II was said there That Blgelo"
r,,s tar,. nrie, and gloomy and told little OF his
III, h ronhded u man that his father
was J. Bgelow. a retired lawyer and e%-Mayor
| ~ Norristown y. j. He said he had wealthy
relatives in the south and In Brooklyn. \ {.
Burt who was manager " the sydney Drew
/ COMPANY and knew BigeOw well. said tnat Blge-
, Io,y mot Miss ThiU while both were members nt
/ tho company and he appeared II be- in love with
her They left The company about Christmas
last and had been out Of employment ever since