The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-17
TRAGEDY IN HAMDEN TOWN
WILLIAM TERRIBLE DEAD-HIS WIDOW NEAR DEATHS DOOR.

Fatal Termination of an Unhappy Welded
 Life-Terrin Shoots and Dangerously
 Wounds His Wife, Then Ends His Own
 Life-Rum Was the Primary Cause of the Terrible Deed.
 William Terrill, gun finisher, em-
 ployed by the Winchester Repeating Arms company shot and killed himself
 yesterday afternoon about o'clock,
 after having dangerously wounded his
 wife, Cora Mix Terrill. The tragedy
 was the continuation of series of do-
 nestle troubles which run back several
 years, caused, it is said by friends of
 the family, by the immoderate use of
 liquor by the husband
 William Terrill, the man who lay
 cold in death last evening in the upper
 story of the pretty little cottage he had
 called home, and the wife whose life he
 had put in jeopardy by his rash act
 were married about eleven years ago.
 She was a Miss Cora Mix and the
 daughter of Norris G. Mix, the Hamden
 ice dealer.
 Both MT Mix and MT. Heeman Ter
 rill the father of the young man, were
 at the cottage where the shooting took
 place, last evening, when the Journal
 and Courier man called. The house
 was bare of furniture and Terrill lay
 as he had fallen, with his feet, which
 were encased in a pair of russet pumps,
 crossed. He lay with his feet toward
 the door of the room, as if he were in
 the act of going out when he fired the
 fatal shot.
 Terrill wore black diagonal trousers
 and vest, a brown coat, white shirt and a narrow black tie. He looked much younger than his reputed age of
 thirty nine. His head rested in a pool
 of blood which had oozed from the hole in his right temple, where the bullet
 had entered. Terrill was a man of me
 dium height, brown eyes and hair,
 brown moustache and otherwise clean shaven.
 MT. Mix, the father in-law, in speak ing of the tragedy, said: This trouble
 began several years ago, when my son. in-law began to come home intoxicated He would upon these occasions i'll treat my daughter. As time wore on these lapses became more frequent, until she became afraid of him. On election
 night when I came home from New Haven, I found my daughter and the two children up at my house. She af terward returned to her home. A day or two after that Terrill locked all the doors of the house and told his wife that he would shoot her. They were upstairs at the time She ran down stairs and out the door, bursting one of the locks in her fright
 MT. Mix said that he then took the trouble in hand and had Terrill arrest ed. He also advised his daughter to | secure a divorce, and proceedings had had already been begun Yesterday morning Mrs. Terrill engaged Frank l Brazos to move her household goods to the city, she having taken the octa-
 gon house on Dixwell avenue near | Webster street. As a precautionary measure Constable Meaney was sent to | the house to protect, if necessary, Mrs. | Terrill. The husband was about the
 premises all day, at times helping load 1 the trucks. He was not quarrelsome, and even told the officer that he was not prepared to injure his wife if he | wished to-, as he was not armed He voluntarily submitted to being search
 ed by the constable.
 | Where Terril concealed the weapon | is mystery. The last load of furni- ture was out of the house when Mrs Terrill remembered that she had left her cape upstairs, She ran up after it., fn1ln irofr tItr |,,ra | ports of a pistol were heard.
 | The attendants rushed up stairs and found Terrill dead. Word was sent to MT. Mix that his daughter was shot. | Dr. Joslin and pr. Hemingway were | immediately sent for. They ordered Mrs Terrill taken to the hospital in this
 city.
 The bullet which had entered the | head of Mrs. Terrill just below the lobe of the left ear, and had taken a downward course, was probed for by i Drs. Carmalt, Joslin and Hemingway, but could not be extracted last night The wound is one of the throat, and while it interferes with the patient S
 speaking and deglutition, is is not l necessarily dangerous. An operation will probably be necessary to extract the bullet
 Mrs. Terrill said last night that the
 only thing her husband said when he
 shot her was, Are you never coming 1 back to live with me" She replied
 "No!" Then he shot Mrs. Terrill is
 a large woman, weighing about 23O pounds, which will be much against her recovery. The unfortunate couple
 have two children, a boy, aged nine, and a girl six years old
 F. Brazos, who was at the scene of | the tragedy yesterday, moving the
 goods of Mrs. Terrill, said last evening that he and his four men, who were assisting him in the moving, were much surprised when the unfortunate affair occurred, as Terrill had been di-
 recting the men all day in the moving, and had appeared very pleasant. MT. Brazos and his men had finished
 loading all the goods except the piano, and Mrs. Terrill had gone up to get her wraps preparatory to leaving. Terrill
 had previously asked his wife to wait
 awhile before she left, but she had re- fused to do so. When Mrs. Terrill went up to put on her wraps Terrill asked permission of Constable Meaney to go up and talk with her. The constable
 at first refused, but finally consented,
 and Terrill went up stairs after her
 It was only about three minutes af-