The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-04
AIRY CUMMINGS
Z. wife Murderer Shoots Him
eeIf Through the Head.
. us CELL AT COUNTY JAIL.
: -, 6e~ the Deed, and Death Wss
fesssntAnoou.-His Horrf-
BILE Crime.

x.~,nce Cummings. who murdered his
- r7ixxbeth Cummings, and tried 10
--s.r NJ daughter on tic night cf June
~ committed suicide In the county
q q 1xAs this morning by shooting him.
~ 3 the head
s.ss~s po,an. his ceiinate. noticed that
r.elfnxs was rnorose and sad during TIE
- sut thought nothing OF the ctrsuin-
-ss>a bsrausa men charged Nttn ""
- crime occasionally have what uiNS
- 81 days. Dolan was awakened IRON
4 esupd slumber al 11s85 this morning oy
- sosd report OF pistol snot eehetsls
s.,s,ef the grim corridors o. tne Jsh.
- {.noosnx from his bunk was greeted
a - sixi,i of Cummings lying on The
- ~sfh the stu smoking revolver In
-. h1nd. which lay across hts stomach.
<s-~rs,y9s had evidently carefully made
-r-~<estous for killing himself. He had
kSw~ his inflow ard blankets from his
- sbs ptiiow be placed under MS aezd
- she h1snkets were spread on the iiaf-
eli door. When these preparations
~ 800 completed he lay down on tie
- ,aot the revolver from Its place CT
.ss..sIr,ent and held II close 10 siis head
- 1870 the right ear. lie then pulled
q. sviraer ard the ball went entissly
S-on~5 MS head. emerging on tue .eft
- aaove the ear and an in>h higher
- IN ths ~ In which IL entered. Death
- evidently instantaneous The bullet
r,uck the side OF the cell. rebounded and
~ found under the dead mans neck.
= HAwks. the night jaiier. who was
= IL rounds. heard the duh report OF the
Essf ard unlocking the cell from the
/ q nj
- - trust;es, hurried into the cell and
- Cummings, who was bleeding pro-
= ~ from the exit and entrance OF the
~ ard or feeling bis pulse found trar
xTo1s stone dead.
mj1Ks must have held the pistol
eIoee to his head. IS the flesh around
round was badly burned. Thu
- with which the deed was commits
- 4 brand new. nickel-plated. 3s-
~ Rmith a Wesson. The number.
57fk may lead 10 the Identification os
r. a,rpog, who furnished Cummings with
| A. r<vpiyer, Is 75-2s4. No one at tho jail
~ noning had any idea who furnished
= Nth the revolver or who had visited
| u rscently. The weapon must necessa-
| ~ have been given him by some friend
= relative. With the number and the
tnesIedge the day taiiers must possess
II 180 Nj3 fltiiDfa were IL Will Rtbt8btJ
y a easy matter TO find out who fur
sahtd him with the weapon
cnroaer Asian was summoned and made
q examination of the body. ard shortly
aaM II was conveyed TO Butterworth's
uad<raking establishment.
4 fummlngs was committed to the county
III On June IL by Justice McElwain for
- killing on the 18th day of June Eliza
NJ Cummings. his wife. lie was held
3 sasgef 10 the superior court for muir
Mn the FIRST degree without bonds.
cmmlnxs' ceilmate was awakened by
solse. started up and saw Cummings
b5ae an his back on the floor. a smoking
etqfys In his hand, hole through his
keaa dead. The shooting was done with
rev = 1mi.h a. Wesson. but how he got
\ IA . mystery
M cine Scr whAf, Cummings was tn
saIl saxftEg trial Was ono or the moss
frIxhiAI that ever blackened the pages
IT history IN the tactic Northwest. Sell
dan \ newspaper called upon TO chron-
~ a. event from the very reading OF
Wiki the public shrinks In horror. put
ri sas Ct,mmlngs' crime. Frenxied
ss:a rhe spirit lncarnate. he sought out
d hey wtaknsss A woman whose greatest
II had been her blind and unSelflsa love
Or Hm-ter hasband-and who. when
s.Anr else remained for her 20 do. driven
3espsratlon by his uawarranted a1'us~'
W b!rn and took up a residence apart.
1kz1ened by the slight. the brutal nature
aria framed a design which he put into
p::hl execution. and II u no fault OF nis
IL fnpre are not two mounds in the
on1kary instead of one.
~ than two months ago the entire
Il uss reused 10 pitch Of the highest
Gdseraen. at Cummings attack upon MS
~, eho now Is dead. and unon MS
hsshlsr, whose fortunate escape from tne
kas. was all that saved her Afe. The
lsBse has not had time 70 forget X All.
5 I'll the sequel 10 the inhusnan murder In
. suicide OF last nigh; VII only cause
! nzfet that the laws delays robbed tie
enmansty OF It's revenge.
Mrs CUMMINGS LEFT him ut the ranch
white river where the family bah
aksa 10 SIS residence. and was preceded
n Ser daughter. who found employment
a ais csty. Cummings. on the date above
azed. with a cooIuess and reconciliation
UsCukiea airnos; III the criminal calendar.
NJ h3 Preparations "a An them both,
h drove 10 Seattle AMI proceeded 10 the
1plse where hts wife and daughter were
sFsE with family named 1fanev at isls
&Adsays He entered the house and pro-
stetet Al once 70 room At the rear.
sasre the family were sitting. His daush-
- n~s 70 the yard. tbs mother 10 her
eafconA Afser shooting a. the nysng
Hxe Of his daughter. Cummings returned
~ fslcwef his wife 70 her room. where
y eeas in her head with the butt or his
nsalver ard then shot her. ANY OF the
saanas would have killed her. For three
s5s The woman's life hung BY a thread.
saf men Il parted.
fns excitement among the other prls-
Nfrs vas intense when thew heard or the
1sSise. Neristrosa. Craemer. Jim Muir
Fsr. he Aecanns, Carey and the other
nsrstrsss awoks and shouted and tn
S,Ss1 eagerly for particulars Of the sui
eae II excited them So much that they
VI but little during the remainder or
ss syat. which was occupied N discuss
e ne suicide. One or two expressed a
VS. that they Rad "a gun" but for what
t1sTese they ala net STATE