The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-04
THE WOMAN HE LOVED
MARION TYLER TRIED TO KILL HER
AND THEN SHOT HIMSELF.
She Was His Wife, but Had Left Him.
A Tragedy at ScOttsburg
Last Night.

Marion Tyler strong, handsome and TWEEN
ty-two years old, who came to- this city a
year ago and held the friendship of all who
knew him, shot his wife at Scottsburg yes
terday afternoon and then put two
bullets into his own body, one en-
tering the chin and blowing its
way out at the temple and the other
piercing the abdomen. Physicians said last
night he could not live many hours. Mrs
Tyler was shot in the left cheek and in the
shoulder. She will likely recover.
The last year of Tyler's life was troubled
love story. His home was at McLeansboro,
ILL.,, and his parents live there now. A year
ago he came here and secured employment
with the street-railroad company. He was
good fellow, always pleasant, and he
usually occupied the center of the circles of
street-rairoad employees when work was
done and they collected at the North llli-
nois-street barn to talk a few minutes be-
fore going home. He met Mrs. Laura Gar
riott, who moved TO this city from Scots
burg shortly after he came here. They came
to love each other and were married Mrs.
Tyler bought house at No. 1O5 Oliver ave-
nue., West Indianapolis, and the two began
housekeeping there. They were very happy
for a time, but trouble came between them
and oDe day about three months ago Tyler
carried his lunch basket to an empty
house-his wife had deserted him and gone
back to her family at Scottsburg. This was
shock to Tyler from which he could not
recover. He took a vacation and returned
to the home of his father and mother,
where he stayed two weeks. He made sew
eraI trips to Scottsburg and begged his wife
to return to Indianapolis with him, but she
refused.
The last time his friends at the North IL
linois-street car barns saw him was
Wednesday afternoon. Tyler was moping
about the place Yesterday he made his
last trip to Scottsburg in the vain hope OF
winning his wife back to him. In the after
noon the two stood on the veranda of Mrs.
Tylers parents home and talked for two
hours. Tyler pleaded with her to return to
him. She would not give him even hope
that she would become reconciled to him.
Quickly he drew d revolver and shot her
full in the face. She dashed away from
him. Tyler aimed carefully and fired a Sec
ond time at the fleeing woman, whom he
declared he loved, and the bullet struck in
her shoulder. He then opened fire on HIM
self.
Tylers clothing was searched and two
letters were found. One commended his
wife and in the other he said he would kill
accede to his entreaties to again live with
him. The story from ScottSburg of the rea.
son for Tylers crime is that when they
were living together Tyler wanted his wife
to sell her property and let him invest the
money, and she refused. That started the
trouble, and when she left him Tyler be-
came angry and in a tit of rage yesterday
afternoon at o'clock when she forced him
to give up all hope of ever having her with
him again he tried to kill her and himself.
Another story of Iyler's domestic trouble
was told last night by one of his friends-a
street-car conductor He was an awful
nice boy" saia the conductor in a low
voice, and | never knew him to take a
drink. He was always pleasant, and every
body about the barn liked him. He GER
tainly loved the woman. She was pretty
well off and bought that house on Oliver
avenue. We heard his wifes family OBJ
jected 10 her marrying Tyler, because they
said, he wasn't good enough for her. Ty-
ler's mother-in-law kept running up here
and talking to his wife, and one day Tyler
went home and his wife and mother-in-law
We're gone. / never saw the boy take a
drink and he always had a pleasant word
for you. When / heard at that barn what
he had done il took me all aback. couldn [
understand il. He was a nice, bright boy,
and he certainly loved his wife"
Mrs. Tyler is four years older than her
husband.