The Portland daily press., 1896-10-16
MURDER Then SUICIDE.
Hampden Sea Captains Fearful
Crime.
JEALOUS OF HIS WIFE HE SHOOTS
HER DOWN.

And Then Takes His Own Life-Woman
Had Applied for Divorce ON Account of
Dreadful Tragedy.
Bangor, October l5.-On Thursday at
12. 10 o'clock, Captain William Clark, Of
Hampton. shot and killed his wife,
Lillian Nealley CLARK. and then shot
himself. He will die. The affair occurred
IN their homes in Hampden. The cause
was jealousy, Mrs. Clark being In the
process Of securing divorce from her
husta and, on account of alleged drunken
ness and abusive treatment.
William Clark and his wife have lived
for several years in small house in
Hampden.
| Mr.. Clark goes to sea for q living. He
began that sort of life a. boy and has
worked up in it until at the time of his
death he WAS master Of good schooner.
the Ira Lafferier, now In Boston.
CLARK and his wife have had two chill
drsn. Celia and Raymond, girl aud boy.
The former is about twelve and the latter
about fourteen. The pair have lived in
harmony until recent years, when there
were quarrels which are said to have or
iginated from the habits of intemperance
of the husband.
A month or two ago only, Mrs. CLARK
left her house in the night ard went to
that of her hrother-in-law, Bradley T.
Clark's. saying that she could no longer
live with her husband. He followed hsr
and took her back after much pleadtnas.
Still his intemperanos went on and she
was forced to do something serious to
rid herself Of the aff1iotion to herself and
children.
She decided to apply for divorce. 1t
would have come up for trial In Bangor
before Justice Wiswell.
Clark heard of this. He vas In New
Jersey waiting for his schooner to load
once left her and came home. He arrived
in Hampden suddenly and tried TO dis
suade the woman from the suit, but she
announced that she could no longer
stand his intemperanoe.
Then Clark demanded that she PROM iss
him that she would marry nobody else.
and she gave him writing signed by
herself. stating that she would never
marry without letting him know ofit
after the divorce. He tried again to fet
her to give up her idea Of separation Int
she would not. Mrs. Clark went about
getting ready for her divorce.
On Wednesday Clark was In Bangor
and siGniflsd his intontion Of going hone
at night on the late stage. When Clnk
left for his home he was in an ugly mod
and was on the verge Of drunkenness
Clark got home late, but his wife hal
gone with the children to Mrs. Mary Am
Jaokson's house, next door to pass tlB
night for she feared the return of La
husband.
In the morning Miss Wheeler AMI
Mrs. Clark came home, with the ohildren u
and had breakfast. CLARK told his wifi
that she could not como into the hous'
any more. Mrs. Clark accordingly left.
In the Clark house at noon there wer,
six persons, Clark and his wife, Mis-
Wheeler, the two children, and small
boy who boarded with tho family. Clarl
had come out as II to sit down, bul
called his wife into the front Of th,
house.
Miss Wheeler had ,aten her dinner
partly. when there was a sudden sho
and an aaonized scream. Then came
heavy thud and the little house Jared al
over. She ran out into the yasd toward
Mrs. Jaokson's for help.
One of the children, meanwhile, raj
ont screaming into the road, and Mr.. B
W. Hardy. who was passing, came int
| the yard on the run. He tried the from
door and, as 1t would not readily open
was about putting his shoulder to i
when he heard a second shot He forced
the door and FASTENED In. A sorry sigh
was presented to him when he entered
The parlor was empty, but at the farther
end OF it, by the double doors, he coulf
see o woman 3 fest sticking out into th,
room.
Mrs. CLARK lay on the floor partly OF
one side. at full length. A Jagged hol
was In her left cheek, and out of II
gushed . fountain OF blood. She wal
llfeless.
With hfs feet half across her limbs lay
her husband. In one Of his hands there
lay good-sizsd revolver, which was
still smoking when the first comsrs ar.
rived. Clark's head lay jammed dow \
next the little pnrior stove, where. IN
falling, it had come, and in the right
temple there was oozing hole from
which triokled siokening stream OF
brains. which ran down into the flooz
and across the carpet.
DR.. Mason was at once called. The
woman was breathing little and 81
was the man, tut he at once saw tha
both Of them would die. The woman
| fulfilled his expectations by expiring
| within few minutes