Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-02-26
HE SHOT HIS MISTRESS
COMMITTED MURDER BECAUSE mn
HAD BEEN DISCARDED.
Example Set by the Offended Hn.s
band of Anaconda Found nm
ImitatOr In MissOula.

Missoula, Mont, Feb 81. = The rnost
soula occurred last night at II O'Clock
which came near being a double murder
and a suicide. AS 1t is woman lies on
the slab at the undertakers rooms. The
man who committed the crime is In the
same place, with his throat cut from ear
to ear.
The murderer is William Worley,
gambler about So years of age. He is
native of Pennsylvania. He came here
from Butte two months ago with Blanche
Renaud, who took quarters in 'Hells Hall
Acre" Worley lived on proceeds of her
life of shame. He lived secluded the great
| err part of the time. A few days ago the
woman grew tired of him and began pay
| ing attentions to Texas a bartender.
making Worley exceedingly Jealous, hay
ing no effect whatever upon the woman
who gave him money to leave town. He
gambled the money away, and Worley
again returned. She refused to have any
thing to do with him. Last night Bess
McCune, colored, called to see Blanche,
and the two were drinking beer when
Worley entered and asked Blanche TO
have drink with him. She answered.
mo, thanks"
Then came the reply: "Is that so?" st
the same time he pulled a revolver and
fired, the ball striking Blanche in the left
neck She reeled, stumbled and ran be-
hind the colored woman. A second shot
struck the colored woman in the back
causing little injury on account of the bal
striking a whalebone in her corset. Bott
women made a rush into the next room
the murderer following and discharginl
four shots, one striking Blanche above tn
right breast, killing her instantly. Sh
fell head first into corner covered witt
$ blood.
During the shooting, intermingled wit
shrieks of the unfortunate women, Hell
Half Acre was turned into a bedlau
q causing a reign of terror. The colore
woman first emerged from the den of cal
q mage, followed by the murderer, VII
aimed the revolver at his own head witt
>, out effect, the ball puncturing his ha
which he left behind on his mad course
= the Missoula river, less than a bloc
l. away. An officer came upon the scene al
, removed the murdered woman to the u
dertaker's.
| A search was made and tracks we
10 found leading to the waters edge. Not
n ing more was found until this afterno
j. at o'clock, when the murderer W
D. found in the river 800 yards below t
A. track, with his throat cut from ear to e
If evidently having done it after jump
n into the river. He was found lodg
against the ice frozen stiff.
n An Absinthe Fiend.
The murderer was an absinthe fiend g
drank heavily. For 10 years he was e
, ployed at Thompson Falls, this state,
-, a faro dealer; going to Denver and oil
~ Colorado points, thence east, where
>, claimed he served in the penitentiary
81 North Carolina, from whence he escap
~ arriving in Butte last summer. He was
intimate friend and employed in the "a
nd gambling house with Frank Dresser v
n murdered his wife and Sherman Ranso
"a at Anaconda three days ago.
w. On table of Worley's room was an
" count of Dressers crime, showing he
m concluded to do likewise, for he said
M was going to make some one bite the d.
The murdered woman was about 80 we
or of age, native of Austria, and came fr
nj Paris few years ago. On a neat call
So card found among her possessions '
on Blanche Renaud, No. 1OS South Mi
n. street, Omaha, Neb.'
ID Those who knew her best say she
a enticed to America by a man living
lar Great Falls, who took her from a respt
on able home to a life of shame, forsall
W her in Butte last October, when she be!
lr- living with Worley, arriving in Misso
M two months ago.