Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-11-01


A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
A Jealous Colore,i Man shoots the White
Girl He Loved and Also Kills
His Rival and Himself.
Luther Estell, young colored Lad,
having q mixture of Indian Mexican
blood in his veins, loved q white girl
named May Beery, who seems to have
his love. Recently, how 4
ever, she has been paying more atten- |
ton to young white lad named Clyde
McMains, which had so enraged Estell
that he had made threats of killing the
girl and McMains. All we're employees
about the Evans shotel. Saturday
evening McMains aud the girl were
about to leave the Evans annex togeth-
er. when Estell rushed from behind
them and began firing. The girl fell
at the side of the walk and McMains,
who had gotten farther away fell near
the stream, about so feet away from
the girl. Both we're at once picked up
by persons who were near by. Young
McMains was dying, and upon being
questioned said that iEstell shot him.
The girl was taken to the Hospital.
McMains expired within few mo-
ments, the bullet, 3S calibre, striking
him just above the .right":.nipple. 1t
seems that McMains, who at first ran
from the shooting, turned back when
the girl screamed, which accounts for
his being hit from the front. Estell
fired four or five times, but only two
took effect, the girl being hit just
above the left hip, as she stumbled and
fell, the ball passing upward into the
abdominal cavity. Efforts to find the
location of the bullet have as yet been
futile. DIR. Hargens believes, how
ever, that the chances for the girls re.
.covery now. seem favorable.
Immediately after doing the shoot
ing Estell ran back to his room in the
hotel annex, reloaded his revolver,
climbed out of the window upon the
edge of the green house and down to
the ground. He then ran to the home
of his stepmother in lower town
rushed into the house, greeting hel
and two OF: three others who were in
the house with sshello," quickly placed
his revolver to his head and fired-fall'
ing over dead.
Such in brief is the story of the
TRAGEDY which occurred in town Satur
day night.
At the coroner's inquest, held at tn
morgue of Undertaken Joyce Sunday
verdict was returned according to tn
facts given above.
The parents of young McMains re
side at New Sharon, Iowa. and tn
father of Estell lives t.Alliance. Th
remains of both we're sent to thos
places Tuesday-both going out on th
same train.
A sister and brother.in.law of th
Beery girl arrived Monday from Clal
india, Iowa, where the family resid'
and have been looking after the cal
of the wounded girl, who is receivin
the best of attention at the hospita
and will probably recover. She refuse
to discuss the tragedy and we unde
stand does not know that the men al
dead. Letters found upon Estell
person indicate that lthe girl had e,
couraged him in his attention to he
The following letter was also. found
his pocket, which he had failed
mail:
Hot SPRINGS, s. D., Oct. %, 100
NV Dear Father and Sister:
write you again to let you knO
when you see me again will be dea
1 have asked you for favors and the
were not fulfilled by no means. No
/ am in love with this girl and will XII
her and myself. have no friends
this world, nobody cares for me. Me
God bless you both until We meet
the other world. Farewell sister. Z
good girl and mind your fathe
Good bye papa and sister. Farewell
farewell.
This girl is white. LUTHER.
The "favors' spoken of are said to
requests for money, but it is said tn
his father claims that he could n
comply because he did not have Il
money to send.
Estell was the young colored fellc
who was such an artistic clog dane
and was said to be very pleasal
steady man.
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