New-York tribune., 1902-08-28

| This woman has ruined my life. and hope
| that God will forgive me for what I am going
to do. And 1 not sorry for what am going
| to do Goodby to all.
| CHRISTIAN GAM.
This letter discloses the motive for the tragedy
| at No. PA East Twenty fifth-st. yesterday
| morning as a result of which Lizzie Hail. or
| Otto twenty-s years old. and Arthur Camp
| bell. a married man. shot to death, While
the author of the note supposed to be the
woman's husband died a suicide at Bellevue
| last night
| The womans body. almost nude. with Dull
| let through the heart was found on the bedroom
| floor. Campbelrs body. fully dressed, lay be-
/ side her. while at little distance lay Gahz'
| with revolver with four chambers empty un-
| der him When the police entered the room
small yellow dog which guarding the wom-
| ans body. snapped at them. 1t was with DIM
| Guilty coaxed away.
The woman, who was we'll known the East
/ Side occupied three rooms in the tenement. She
| was known as Mrs Hail. and Mrs. CAM while
| amoug her effects were an insurance policy
made out to Lizzie Otto. of Stroudsburg, Penn,
| and letters to Mrs. Lizzie CAM. The police say
| she was a daughter of former bandmaster of
| the 9th Regiment. She pretty, and always
| well dressed though she did not work. Men
were frequent callers at her She
| said to have been an actress at one time.
LOUD TALKING HEARD
According to neighbors Campbell and Ganz
| called at her rooms yesterday morning. Loud
! talking heard. but ceased. after which one
| of the men out for beer After his re-
! turn a quarrel broke out. and few moments
! later four shots were fired in rapid succession.
| Mrs. Kann a neighbor. badly frightened, ran
| across the street to engine house. where she
| told Of the shots The firemen informed the
| police Of the East Twenty -second-st. station
| and telephoned for ambulance
| on investigation, DR.. Gillette. OF Bellevue.
! decided that operation could save CAM the
! only one alive. the bullet having shattered his
! spinal column at the base of the brain Coroner
! Schoier and Captain Fitzpatrick, of the East
| Twenty-second-st. station. had the bodies re-
| moved to the morgue where autopsies will be
| performed.
| IT looks to me" said the coroner as if the
! shooting was done by CAM, and is the result Of
Jealousy. CAM lived with the and she
was known a. Mrs CAM. but in the immediate
| neighborhood she known Mrs Hall.
CAM probably found Campbell there this morn
ing and. drawing his revolver. fired and then
tried to kill himself" Captain Fitzpatrick e<-
pressed the same opinion.
Campbell. according to papers found in his
clothes was a window dresser of No. 213 West
Twenty -sixth-st. where he lived with his wife
and eight -year-od son. He bore d good reputa-
ton there He had previously owned furnish
ings store on First-ave. but had failed Among
the woman's papers letters from him ask
ing for money.
NEVER SEEN TO DRINK.
CAM was the tailor a Fort Hancock. He fire.
quentN visited hotel at No. South-st., this
city. and was popular among the inmates. He
was said by of the guests to have invented
a new bicycle. He never seen to drink.
Among the womaus belongings were passes in
the of Mrs Christian CAM allowing her
to visit the fort three DAYS a week.
The police believe that CAM learning Of his
wifes lnidelity. planned to kill her. Finding
Campbell with her, he murdered them both then
shot himself
Mrs. Campbell last night. after she
had recovered to some extent from the shock of
learning of her husbands death She talked
freely of what she knew of the ira gedy which
however. not much. She said that she had
been married to Campbell for good many
years. and that he had always been a good
husba nd to her, and had shown no change in
that regard lately. She knew very little the
Hall woman, she said. but Campbell had men
toned CAM to her day two ago. telling
her that he had met him through a brother of
the Hall woman CAM Campbell told her
wanted him TO go into partnership with him to
exploit the bicycle that CAM had recently in
vented but Campbell not inclined to do so.
chiefly he told his wife. because he regarded
GAM "a crazy DTtchman." He said that
he talked wildly at times, and often seemed to
he mentally unbalanced. From what Mrs.
Campbell said last night. it would appear that
she was inclined advise Campbell ignore
Ganz's personal character to some extent If he
thought that the bicycle proposition d
good one. She said that Campbell had told her.
however. that he did not think that he could
get along in partnership with CAM.
Yesterday morning. Mrs. Campbell said last
night, her husband told her that he must go
around the corner meet CAM at the Hall
woman's rooms. She understood that he had al
ways met him there, his announcement made
no particular impression her He left the
house at a bout II o'clock she said, and she
started for the recrea tion pier shortly afterward
WANTS TO TAKE CHARGE OF SISTERS
BODY
A young man who said that he was the
brother of the Hall woman, and that his
was Otto, called at the morgue last night to
ask when he could take charge of his sisters
body to bury It. He told that he could not
have II until ii had been viewed by the coroner
and he left without giving his full
address. He said that he would call again this
morning. The only information regarding his
sister that he offered that her
Hail. as she had married man of that name.
Whether that alive not he did not
say.
The manager of the South Ferry Hotel, which
used o he called the Down Town. said last
night that Ganz had received mail there for the
last years but had stopped there himself
only occasionally. The last time that he was
there was from June II to "a. and he had called