The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
LOVE THAT
MURDERED.
Hidden in a Wardrobe Mrs.
Tom Campbell
Heard Her Husband Make Love
to Another Woman.
IT WAS A TRAP MADE
By the Two Women to Prove
Him False.
The Wife Wished to Know the
Truth.
THE OTHER WOMAN
Wanted to Furnish the EVi-
dauco F0Y. a nfvOroo
THE OTHER WOMAN
Wanted to Furnish the Evil
dence For Divorce
In Order That She Might Have
Her Lover.
BUT THE ANGRY WIFE
Bursts From Her COncealment
and Shoots Both.

l.
bell stood for one hour yesterday in a
closet in the room of Maud Devere at
IS Center street listening to her hus-
band making love to the Devere wom-
an.
Convinced a hundred times over of
his infdeIity, stung by his prOtestations
that he was not married and his plead
ings with the woman TO run away with
him, she sprang out and emptied the
contents of a 38-caIiber revolver at the
guilty pair
Four shots We're fired at her husband,
two at Maud Devere.
Campbell was hit twice One ball
entered at the point of his left tawbone
and plouShed its way out at the chin.
Another bullet entered his left breast
right above the heart, passed through
his lung and came out of his back. This
wound is fatal.
Maud DeVere caught a flying bullet
in her left knee.
Mrs. Campbell surrendered to the po-
lice. Her husband. despite his serious
wounds, walked to the dispensary,
where he is dying.
Maud Devere tells the story in a
straightforward way
Campbell lies if he says roped him
into my house this morning He has
been coming to see me for two weeks.
L guess l was stuck on him.
I saw him nearly every day. He
my house until sunday afternoon.
Monday morning his wife came to
see me. He had told me he wasn't mar
ried. The woman didn't make any fuss
I don't see how she could keep as
quiet as she did. told her if he was
her husband I didn't have any claim on
him. though I did love him.
"She couldn't believe he was untrue
to her and wanted proof of it. She
asked me if I couldn't get him to my
house while she was there. When
asked why. she said she only wanted
proof enough to give her good cause for
divorce.
Tom wanted me to run away with
him. I thought Il divorce would give
him to me without trouble, and 1 con-
Sented to grant her request.
''She made the arrangements that
when he next left the house she would
come here directly, and I was to hide
her in a closet where she could hear all
that passed
she insisted that he couldn't be un-
true to her, because he was always
making love to her. I assured her that
he could show her something just as
clever in that line when he came to my
house.
AT her request I wrote him note
addressed to the theater Monday night
asking him to come to my house this
morning.
'He made an excuse to her this
morning and started for my place. She
got over ahead of him.
Ct put her in a clothes press in the
front parlOr.
.'He must have suspected she was
coming to the house, for he went to the
corner and sent for me to come over
and have a glass of beer. I sent back
word [ didn't care for any and asked
him to come over.
His first question when he came in
was about his wife. I told him I didn't
know he was married. He confessed
and wanted to know if she was in the
house told him she was not. He ask
ed if she had been over Monday 1
said she hadn't and swOre had never
laid eyes on her.
He sat down then and made love to
me in his usual way The closet door
was partly open and am sure his wife
heard a gOoOd deal that was pretty bit
him and couldn't get along with her
and he wanted to make arrangements
with me to light out next week.
Z played my game and jOllied him
along for over half an hour. Then we
went out to the kitchen
Il thought it would give her a chance
to get out unObserVed, but she didn't
60 We sat down in the kitchen with
our chairs facing each other and talk
ed over our arrangements for going
away He tried to be affectionate there
as we'll as in the parlor, but out of re-
Spect to the woman who had first claim
to him. I made him behave himself
I'VE were in the kitchen nearly half
an hour when he leaned over and said
earnestly: Maud, will you tell me one
thing truly?'"
Sure I said, I'll give you a
straight answer to anything
Answer me this
Before he could say another word
his wife broke into the room.
III answer she shouted, and be
gan shooting.
HE Jumped up and tried to put the
stove between him and her. but she
reached over and kept blazing away.
She fired six or seven shots. None of
US said a word, but we were jumping
around and throwing the furniture
about like crazy people
Campbell was taken to the operating
room at the city dispensary a once.
well, I guess this is my last turn
he said as he was being placed on the