Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

NEW YORK, February 24.-Mrs.
Mamie Hayes was murdered tonight
in her sleeping apartment in the Hotel
Endicott by DIR. Franklin l.. Caldwell,
who then shot and killed himself The
woman was shot in the head. Caldwell
was employed as an assistant by DIR.
Ephriam P. Hayes, husband of the
dead woman. Three days ago Cald-
well ordered a solution of morphine
which was delivered to him tonight
an hour before the shooting. The bot
tie which had contained the morphine
was found on a table in the room with
the bodies.
DR.. E. P. Hayes came from Chicago
four years ago to take charge of the
dental rooms of department store
company. He had been a dentist well
known in Chicago, and when he left
there he placed his office in charge OF
DR.. Caldwell, who did the shooting to-
night. Mrs. Hayes did not come to
the city with her husband, but re-
NAMED in Chicago for some time, just
how long is not known.
Four weeks ago when Hayes open
ed an office in the Hotel Endicott,
Caldwell was placed there as an as
sistant. The Hayes family occupied
with the office set of apartments on
the ground floor of the hotel. With
them lived DR.. Caldwell, Ralph Hayes
nephew of DR.. Hayes, and colored
maid. Mrs. Hayes was 35 years of age.
DR.. Caldwell was the same age. To-
night after dinner DR.. Hayes and his
nephew went out. Mrs. Hayes direct
ed the servant to attend to her work
in the kitchen, at the same time say
ing that she would change her dinner
gown for house dress. Within half
an hour DIR. Hayes nephew returned
and as the servant opened the door to
admit him there came
The Sound of Two Pistol Shots.
One more shot was fired a moment
later. The young man and several
others who had heard the shots ran
into Mrs. Hayes apartments.
On the bed lay Mrs. Hayes. She
had thrown off the dress she had
worn at dinner. She lay in a natural
position. There was a ragged wound
in her right temple from which the
blood flowed. The bullet had entered
her brain and she must have died in
stantly. Beside the bed lay Dr. Cald-
well. He, too, was dead. There was
bullet wound in his head. His right
hand still clutched revolver with
the finger on the trigger showing how
he had died.
DR.. Hayes was found in drug
store near at hand and hurried to the
rooms He was quite distracted, talk
ed wildly and it was feared for a time
that he would have to be restrained.
He could not offer the faintest sug-
gestion of cause for the wild act of
Caldwell.
The police could learn but little.
Dr. Hayes from being excited and
talkative, cooled down and refused to
say anything.
The colored maid was so frightened
that not word could be had from
her
1t was learned, however, that DR..
Caldwell had ordered the morphine
solution a few days ago. Then in
their search of the room in which the
deed had been committed
The Police Found the Vial
which still contained a portion Of its
contents.
Nothing was found that gave any
idea as to the cause of the shooting
so far as is known, or so far as any
one would say.
When the revolver was taken from
the hand of the dead man it was found
that but three chambers were empty
The third shot had gone wild. 1t is
learned that for several weeks Mrs
Hayes had been attended for a ner-
vous trouble by Or. Richardson. q
specialist. 1t is said that she was
about to be taken to a private insti-
tuition, as her nervous condition did
not improve and she needed absolute
quiet.
There seems to have been no indi-
cation of intended murder on the part
of Caldwell, who had dined with the
family. The maid says that Mrs
Hayes and Caldwell chatted together
for few minutes after the other had
left the table, and there was not the
slightest suggestion of a quarrel. They
were talking Of commonplace affairs
she says.
Everything indicated that DR.. Cald-
well had followed Mrs. Hayes into tbs
bed room almost Immediately. She
| had only partly removed her bodice
Apparently she had been standing witt
| her back to the bed when he fired
upon her, and she fell backward upoI
it. Then there was an interval of g
| few seconds Evidently Dr. Caldwell
paused for a few moments to make
sure that his s4ots were fatal Their
| he turned the weapon upon himself
Death must have come to both instant,
ly.
Persons who knew the Hayes couple
and Caldwell say that DR.. Hayes had
| for years befriended Caldwell, had
given MIN an opportunity to advance
In his profession; in fact had con.