The age-herald., 1900-02-25
TERRIBLE DEED
 OF A DENTIST Murdered a Woman, Then Shot
 Himself.
NO CAUSEFOR THE RASH ACT
Dr. Caldwell Shot the Wife of His Elm ployer Then Deliberately Blew His Own Brains Out-The
 Husband Distracted

New York, February 24-Mrs. Mamie Hays was murdered tonight in her sleeping Hayes was murdered tonight in her sleeping Franklin Caldwell, who then shot and kill ed himself. The woman was shot in the head. Caldwell was employed as an assist ant by pr. Ephraim H. Hayes the husband of the dead woman pr. Hayes came from Chicago four years ago to take charge of the dental rooms of a department store company. He had been a dentist we'll known in Chicago, and when he left there he placed h1s office in charge of Dr. Cald- well, who did the shooting tonight.
 Mrs. Hayes did not come to the city with her husband but remained in Chicago for some time-just how long Is not known Four weeks ago, when Hayes opened an office in the Hotel Endicott, Caldwell was placed there as an assistant. The Hayes family occupied, with the office, a set of apartments on the ground floor of the Oo- tel With them lived Dr. Caldwell, Ralph Hayes, nephew of Dr. Hayes, and col- cred maid. Mrs. Hayes was S5 years old.
 pr. Caldwell was the same age. Tonight after dinner Dr. Hayes and his nephew went out. Mrs Hayes directed her servant to attend to her work in the kitchen, at
 
 her dinner gown for a house dress. Within half an hour Dr. Hayes nephew returned, and as the servant opened the door to ad- init him there came the sound of two pistol shots. Two more shots were fired, and a moment later the young man and several others who heard the shots ran into Mrs Hayes apartments.
 On the bed lay Mrs. Hayes. She had thrown off the dress she had worn at din ner. She lay in natural position. There were two ragged wounds in her right tenn pie from which the blood flowed. The bull lets had entered her brain and she must have died instantly. Beside the bed lay Dr. Caldwell. He, too, was dead. There were two bullet wounds in his head. His right hand still clutched revolver with the finger on the trugger, showing how he had died.
 Dr. Hayes was found in drug store nea1 at hand and hurried to the rooms. He was quite distracted, talked wildly and it was feared for time that he would have to be restrained. He could not offer the faintest suggestion of a cause for the wild act oi Caldwell 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.
 Persons who knew the Hayes couple and Caldwell say that Dr. Hayes had for years befriended Caldwell and had given him an opportunity to advance in his profess sion; in fact. had considered him almost as one of his own family As a result of this treatment Caldwell became enamored of Mrs. Hayes, and 1t seems after many re- pulses decided that if he could not possess the woman, he would take her out of the world with him. After breeding over his failure to win the love of the wife of the man who had been his partner in business and his best friend Dr. Cald- well murdered the woman of his affection and then put an end to his own life There are evidences pointing to the intention of the murder to also include his victims hus- band in the tragedy which he had evident ly been planning for several days.