The Portland daily press., 1896-11-03
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head. Nor did the boy smell the smok,
OF the gunpowder, although at the time
OF his visit to the room it must have
filled the small apartment. Strange al
1T may seem. the messenger from thu
Palace theatre saw none of these things
but returning to the theatre re-
ported to Eva Thompson that her sister
was asleep and told her just how he had
found her.
Eva Thompson thought that something
must be wrong, possibly Mrs. Phillips
may have had row with her husband
and was so much overcome by 1t that sht
did not choose to 60 to the theatre thai
night AT any rate the show at the
Palace progressed without Hattie Mars,
ton, or Mrs. Phillips, and Eva Thompson
sang her song and acted her part in the
afterpiece. thinking all the time of Mrs.
Phillips's failure to appear and wonder.
irg what had happened to keep he,
| away.
| when the curtain was rung down on
the burlesque which followed the vaude.
Vile performance. and when the audi.
ence of men and boys had trooped out on
to the street 1t was 10. 30 O'Clock. Eva
Thompson hurried into the dressing
room, changed her stage costume for a
street dress and started home. At sc
Pearl street, all was quiet, but the lights
were still burning in the lower part OF
the house, and in the room occupied by
Mrs. Phillips. Eva Thompson let herself
into the house by latch key and hurried
up stairs to her room. The door was
closed, but not fastened. Miss Thompson
pushed open the door and entered.
Seated in the rocking chair. just as the
boy had seen her q few hours befor g.,
was Mrs. Phillips. Her eyes were open,
her head tipped hack on the oonmode.
as before described. and the brown sack
was still lying in her lap. As she got
nearer to the woman Miss Thompson
saw that Mrs. Phillips's eyes ere open
and that she was apparently staring at
the ceiling. Had she fainted2 Eva
Thompson reached out her hand and
ouched the woman's face. It was stone
cold and as Miss Thompson drew her
hand away she found her fingers covered
with blood.
Lying on tho floor by the side Of the
rocking chair lay Phillips. One arm was
extended under the chair, the other was
doubled up under his body. He lay face
downward and around his head was
pool OF blood which had partially soaked
into the carpet.
Mrs. Thompson screams aroused the
house, and Mr.. Brown ran to the pslice
station ana told Deputy Marshal Sterling
that he and doctor were wanted at 80
Peari street at once. Even at that time
Mr.. Brown did not know exactly what
had happened, and it was not until be re-
turned home that he learned of the
terrible tragedy. After Eva Thompson
had started for the theatre Phillips had
undoubtedly tried to induce his wife to
go home to Boston with him. He was
jealous OF his wife, and some time before
this had threatened to kill her. Probably
Mrs. Phillips refused to 60 back home
with her husband OF to live with him
again. Angered at this refusal Phillips
walked behind his wife's chair and
taking 32-caibre revolver from his
pocket deliberately took aim at his
wife's head, just above and behind the
left ear and pulled the trigger. Death
TO the woman was instantaneous, as tho
bullet passed directly through the brain.
Phillips. without moving from his
tracks then placed the revolver at the
centre of his forehead. with the muzzle
pointing downward o little. He sbot
himself through the upper part of the
brain and fell beneath the chair of the
woman he had killed. a lifeless corpse.
The strangest part Of the whole affair
was. that no one in the house heard tbs
two pistol shots or discovered the murder.
A Mr.. Libby who was in the next room
to that where the shooting occurred was
dressing to 60 out for thessevening, when
he heard something which sounded like
a pistol shot long ways off. About the
time it would take to count Eve he heard
another shot which also appeared to ne
some distance away. The second shot
was followed ny heavy fall, apparently
in the next room. Mr.. Libby listened a
heard no further noise. He
went down stairs and called Mr.. Brown
who WAS In the room directly beneath
the room where the tragedy took place
Mr.. Brown had heard the fall of Soma
object mp stairs, but had not heard the
shot. The two men went I'D stairs to-
gether and listened at the door of Mrs
Phillips's room. Not a sound was heard
within and the men went away. Ten
minutes later Mr.. Libby's door WAC
opened BY the boy from the theatre. Ha
said he was looking for Hattie Marston,s
room, meaning that of Mrs. Philltps,s
The hoy then went into the room "a be.
fosr stated, but failed to discover any
thing. Mr.. Libby thought the sound ~
the shots were heard by him Just about
!. 80 O'Clock.
Not soul in the house heard tho
sound of the shots excepting Mr.. Libbv
and even he didn't know they oconrred