San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-30
MAGGIE WALSH SAYS HE WANT
ED HER TO GO WITH HIM
TO MEXICO.
She Told Him He Was A Married
Man And Says That He Said
He WOnld Kill Himself And
She Told Him That
He Could,

Winsome woman's winning ways
have shattered another promising
young life and caused the unhappiness
of a once happy little family. Louis
o. Sennett, of whose tragic death the
Light made mention yesterday, has
been the victim of woman's smiles and
to end his self inflicted misery crashed
bullet through his brain.
He madly fell in love with a woman
who smiles sweetest on old Liberty of
Almighty Dollar, while he had a low
ing wife and two pretty little daugh-
ters, whose aim it was to make home
pleasant and comfortable for their pro-
WIDER OF late Sennett has neglected
his family devoted his attention to
Maggie Walsh, vaudevill actress"
Even she saw his erring ways and re-
minded him of his solemn duties, but
he needed not. The pretty face and
form of Maggie Walsh,-for she some
times appears on the stage in tights
were impressed on Sennett's mind, and
his love for her soon became inextinct
He imagined he could not live without
her, and rather than separate he would
rather be dead.
He asked her to go with him to an
other place-in Mexico, where he was
to accept good position as telegraph
er-but she refused as he was a mar
ried man. and his wife's place was
with him.
The rest is best told in Maggie Wal
shs own words, as given to Coroner
E. G. Jones yesterday afternoon. She
was attired in a black silk skirt and
waist and wore black hat and black
gloves. After reading over her testi-
mony she signed it. She stated as fol-
lows:
Il live at 119 Chavez street, a board
ing house kept by Mrs. M. B. Freeman
L am an actress at the Washington
theatre. / will be 20 next birthday. /
have been in San Antonio about eight
months. 1 am acquainted with Louis
o. Sennett have known him since my
arrival. l got acquainted with him at
the Washington theatre. He is dead
l saw him at my home, he was there
at six yesterday evening and taken
away about seven this morning He
attended the show last night and af-
ter the show was over he was at the
dance until a. m. He walked as far
as the door with me. We sat on the
front porch, conversing. He told me
that he was going to the City of Mex
leo, and asked me to accompany him.
1 told him that / could not go-that he
had wife here-and to take her along.
He said he would kill himself-that he
would not give me up for anyone
that he did not care for his wife. So 1
told him he could kill himself, think
ing he would not do it; thought he was
just kidding. 1 then went into my
4 l. ell
if 1 would give him piece of paper,
and he wrote to his mother. 1 gave
the letter to Jimmie Dargan. He then
took the gun and fired but it was a
blank. He then placed the gun to his
right ear and fired. He was sitting at
the table when he shot himself, and
as he fell, the chair he was sitting in
fell with him. 1 screamed, MY God
he is dead" and ran out of the room.
Miss Bessie Lynn and Mrs. Freeman
came to me, Miss Lynn was up having
just come from work. do not remem-
Der whether Mrs. Freeman was dress
ed or not. l was on good terms with
him until we started home, we quarrel
ed because l would not go to Mexico.
He said he would not go without me
that he would kill himself. / told him
that could not go that it was impos-
sible."
AS there was no one in the room but
her and Sennett at the time the shot
was fired there appeared at one time
to be an air of mystery surrounding
the affair All this however, is dis
PEELED of by the following note found
in the room, in Sennett's handwriting
Dearest Maggie:-Your treatment
tonight is simply unbearable. L have
done nothing criminal. My intentions
were for the best. If 1 did not love
YOU 1 would not care. 1t nearly kills
me to have you talk the way you did
tonight; that you would treat me
this way. Say if you mean that 1 will
end everything tonight. You will be
the only living human that will know
why done it, Answer if you love and
will be what you were to me. Yours
in distress. L. o. s.
Late last evening another witness
was examined in person OF Police Of
ficer Joe Quintana, who testified as fol-
lows:
Il am a police officer. 1 was called
to 119 Chavez street about 4:25 o'clock
this morning May 90. 1 was notified
by the night Waterman for Wolfson,
eilae told me that a milk man had no
tilted him that he had heard a shot
fired in Chavez street. So I started in
n that direction to investigate the cause.
went to 10 Chavez street went to
the east front room and pushed the
81 door. They were screaming and cry