The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-10-17
CLEAR CASE OF JEALOUSY
Scribe Finds Other Man in Room
With Woman He Was on Init
mate Terms With.

Tain. EQlCOr helley W
the local police at noon today. He
will plead self-defense. 1t is said that
DR.. Cayley, who was taken to a pri-
vate hospital, is dead, but the police
are unable to learn the truth, as they
have been refused admittance to the
hospital.
The shooting took place in Kelley's
apartments and was the result of an
interrupted engagement between DR..
Cayley and a dressmaker known as
Madame Ruth La Bonte.
Kelley returned earlier than the
woman expected from a banquet to a.
newspaper man who left at a late
hour for the south to take a wife. He
found Cayley in his apartments with
the woman and the shooting followed.
DR.. Cayley is now at st. James hos
pital in a serious condition. His left
side is entirely paralyzed and the
right side is sympathetically sensi-
tive.
The bullet entered the left shoulder
at the collar bone and coursed down
ward and backward, lodging in the
spine, and, it is believed penetrating
the spine. Little hope is entertained
for the recovery of DR.. Cayley.
1t is said that Kelley and the La
Bonte woman have been intimate for
some time. Kelley occupied room Nc.
Al at the Broadway rooming house,
II West Broadway, and the La Bonte
woman was supposed to occupy the
communicating room in the e a
There is a bed in Kelly's room, and
a dining table, two sewing machines,
two trunks, a dresser, bust models
and other paraphermalia such as
would compose the stock of a dress
maker, in the communicating room.
Persons in the house claim that the
La Bonte woman bore an unsavory
reputation, and say that Kelley was
extremely jealous of her.
When Kelley left his room early in
the night he expected to be away
until particularly late. At least he
made such an announcement, it is
said. He was evidently suspicious,
however, and left the banquet about
8 o'clock.
It is supposed he lay in wait, as
DR.. Cayley had been in the room but
a short time when Kelley opened the
door. Dr.. Cayley had come from st.
James hospital, where he had set a
fractured leg for S. D. Marcoux.
When Kelley opened the door of
his room Madame La Bonte, attired
in her %nightdress, was in the center
of the floor, and DR.. Cayley was at
tempting to get from the bed. He got
as far as the edge of the bed. in a
sitting posture, when Kelley struck
him across the bridge of the nose with
his revolver.
DR.. Cayley was stunned and as he
fell Kelley fired. The bullet went wide
of its mark, and, boring through the
head of the bed, lodged in the wall
behind it. Cayley. realizing that his
life was in danger. attempted to get
to his feet, when Kelley pressed the
muzzle of his revolver close against
the shoulder ct the physician and fir.
ed the second shot. Cayley fell near
the center of the floor. Kelley then
placed his revolver in his pocket and
telephoned for DR.. H. H. Hanson.
When DR.. Hanson arrived, Kelley was
gone, but the La Bonte was
still in the room. At the advice OF
DR.. Hanson, DR.. Cayley was placed in
a hack and sent to the hospital
where it was decided to defer al
operation because of the condition q
the patient.
When the police visited DR.. Cayley
early yesterday morning, he claimed
that he shot himself. He was told
that he was in a serious condition
but laughed and said he had nothins
further to say. Later, however, h
made a statement to DR.. Hanson
which was in turn given to the pc
lice.
1t appears that DR.. Cayley and Kel
ley had been paying attention to tn
La Bonte woman. and that each wa
in ignorance of the fact that the othe
was on intimate terms until recently
when it is supposed Kelley learne
something which made him suspic
GUS.
, DR.. Cayley, is married and is high
! respected. Kelley is a single maj
! and has a host of friends.