The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-01
CHAPTER OF HORRORS

At Pittsburgh = includes Suicide
Murder, Death by Accident and
Narrow Escape From Death BY Az
phyxiation.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 2s.-This
has been a day of suicide, murder and
fatal accidents. Five dead. one dying
and another almost asphyxlated, is the
record.
Mrs, Cora Pforr, who rents rooms 9t
l3s Third avenue, rented one Of her
apartments yesterday to Morris splale'
an employe Of the Columbia hotel.
To-day when she went to the room to
clean It. she found spldle and wo-
man Identified as Myrtle Thompson ly-
ing on the bed side by side. both dead.
Double Suicide.
1t is supposed they committed Eui-
eide by taking poison.
They were in the second room Of the
first floor Of the house. In the front
room was found Frances kerwln,
handsome young woman, suherlng
from the effects Of gas, which sne haa
inhaled. She was alone and almost un-
conscious when the door OF her room
was broken in. The Kerwin girl was
nn intimate friend Of Myrtle Thompson,
The death of the two in the rear room
Is shrouded in mystery. The girl N
the front room said that she had heard
nothing during the forenoon ana het
connection with the grewsome Tragedy
remains unexplained.
NIONh11w n hnTrf the F0Ofn WAS QlHEurQs
ed. A lighted lamp stood on dresser
which evidently signified that the cou,
pie had retired last night or early th1
morning.
spidle's father says his son was ad-
dIcted to the use Of morphine, ana
physician who was called in when the
bodies were discovered, said It was eV-
identity case OF morphine poisoning
with both victims.
Myrtle Thompson came to Pits
burgh from her home in Cleariield, Pa,
on January lG last. Mrs. lie Roy, with
whom the girl lived at the time OF her
death, said that Thompson was the
woman's real name. She had been at
her house, No. 525 Third avenue, only
two weeks. Prior to that she lived for
several weeks at No. 225 Second ave-
nue..
Shot his Sweetheart, Then Himself.
william Jackson, colored barber,
shot his sweetheart. Annie Houston,
also colored. and killed himself, In Al
derman L. c. Negley's office In the
East End, to-day. The Houston NO
man had rejected Jackson, and she
had gone to the aIdermnn's office to
make an information against him for
annoying her. jackson followed her
and after firing two bullets into her
body, turned the revolver upon himself.
The bullet entered his brain ana ne
died almost instantly. The woman
was wounded in the chest near the
heart, and is expected to die at any
moment.
Iackson's body was removed to the
police station and his victim was taken
to hospital The shooting was done
30 quickly that the spectators were
powerleSs TO prevent It,
Peter Engel, slate roofer, was KILL
ed in Bellevue to-day, by falling from
the roof Of house where ne was at
| work. Hls neck was broken and he
sustained n fracture Of the skull at the
base OF the brain. The accident Happen
ed at 1910 o'clock and was caused by
the slippery condition of the roof and
the numbness OF the victim as @, result
Of the cold. Engel was about forty
years OF age. and lived on Ohio street,
Allegheny. 1t Is said he leaves q widow
and two children in Germany.
Supposed to be Evangelist Elliott.
An unknown man about forty-fve
years of age. was found lying beside
| the Pittsburgh. Virginia & Charleston
railroad tracks at Howard Station,
with his skull crushed. He was brought
to the West Penn hospital. A card
found In his pocket announced a re-
vlval service in the Primitive Methodist
church, commencing January IL, by
Ralph Elliot, an evangelist. Tne card
bears n picture Of Mr.. Elliot, and It Is
said to resemble the injured man. The
card stated that Elliot was from East
Palestine, Ohio.