The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-16
|1R TACOMA CRIME.
- csssf saoors his WIFE.
= -un1nun AND MIMsHLF.
xs nfnssIf lana Oldest Child
8 ,s;ls,. tke neither IL Mertaiiy ana
%. x..nesr Bsy severely wound
1S.;S,.-.e q Murder IL Unknown.

=, ,,,-ratch 10 the Post-Intelligencer.
~ 4 -. Madam Crist shot his
K ~ - Iittle boys and himself at the
- s~,,se 1SO G street, this after
- ~ woman 10 at the st. Joseph
-, ~ four bullets I'm her body; the
~ 4 vears old, IL at the hospital
~ ~ badly wounded. and the boy
SsS / years old. and the father, VINO
~ ~ nhooting. are dead.
~ W. Of . vicious ana ouarreiso.ne
ss1lkion, and the police nave treouen,Iy
(! l.... ~NicA Yr. and MrA Crist kept. Mrs.
9.s - formerly Mrs. Sullivan. and had
~ sSiiSren. 1 grown-up son. a grown
SnrAfer about Is years OF age, two
40 9irla. and the two young boys since
~ SsSfiarc with Crist. about nine years
100 mouths ago Crist left the city
w. ~ ~ GpoIkane, where Il was said
a engage In the lodging house
.s1~s1. Jack. Mrs. sullivan's oldest son.
-. S11o a spokane. A story was current
M Whsn Crist left home he took with
E - 9rown-up stepdaughter, but 1t Is
ssi1 ~ She b IN Seattle.
! 1h61t IN this afternoon Crist appeared
4 ~ Chlcago house, went upstairs to his
~lGgY Ho6room and, not finding her there,
~ ~ little boy. years old. to call her.
s- CIT Wa In another room talking
- q y. E1liot, travelling agent for the
n. Enkbitt Company. The woman went
= ~ room and Immediately Mr.. Elliot
.s1 - scfesm and two shots hred. He
"a. SvVprd the part Of the house whence
;Ss V66nnn Wont and met Crist coming
~ Sllh ( eun IN his hand, and, a. Elliot
- noting like fiend.
S11fsf fhe1 started down the stairway to
~ 1los1. with Christ shooting at him ~
~ 80 A woman was on the stairs.
~ nolh me and Elliot escaped unhurt.
sS11lrr 70 the bottom Of the stairs and out
ts1o II street. whore an alarm was given.
nsleotiye Ashby, CHIEF Read and the
1900 rushed 70 the scene and found Mrs.
fsl1f = IT. room, In the care of neigh
loFe WAo had run In when the shooting
slmrsd Detective Ashby. knowing the
1Iisufous character Of Cr1st started In
~ erection which Crist had gone. down e
iW murderer. The scene that met his
~ however, showed him that all danger
" paDt Crist lay IN the floor with hi1
h9aAw scattered about. and beside him
w. ~ litsls boy: One q the fathers
RI large white bulldog stood guard,
iEling he face Of the boy and tho bloody
h1n6 ~ the man.
N dog was coaxed into q room ana the
bcnes taken up The man was shot In the
80 Tho boy was shot In the breast.
M Crist was shot first In the side, un-
" hr LETT arm. and then three times
mep b various parts Of her body. 1t II
pqulhle she may recover, but not likely.
4 b Tie bed In the womAn's room was .
hf10.eiBed Colts revolver, with the cham.
M empty. and lying on the floor, between
Tie IMderer and his last victim, was an.
eth9 = gun with two chambers empty.
IN tahy once with the first gun, then ran
" aftor the second boy with the socond
m WITH which he also. ended his own
Mrs. Crist Dyias.
TACOMA, Dec. 16, .. m.--Mrs. Crist Is
tyine tonight at 81. Josoph's hospital with
6uI2 wounds through her lungs and liver
a. ~ through her abdomen. Her daugh-