The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-16
KILLED BY HER HUSBAND
KANSAS CITY WOMAN WHO DEFIED
KANSAS CITY STRIKERS.
Murder and Suicide Committed by
George ID. Evans, Who Had Been
Sued for Divorce.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. B.-Mrs. Lille
Maude Evans, wife of George b. Evans,
manager of the American Transfer Com
pany, was murdered in her home in the
southern part Of this city early to-day. Her
husband killed her and later shot himself.
She had filed suit against him for divorce
on Wednesday of this week.
Evans could not be found when the trag-
edy was discovered, but after a long search
his body was found in Mount st. Mary's
Cemetery, two miles from the scene of the
murder. He had shot himself in the head.
The murder was most cold-blooded and
occurred while Mrs. Evans was asleep. Ac-
cording to the hired girl she was aroused
by shots and the loud voice of a man. The
man. according to the girl, fired two shots
at Mrs. Evans. both Of which went wide of
the mark. Then, catching hold of Mrs.
Evans by her hair. he dragged her to the
side of the bed nearest him, deliberately
placed his revolver against the back of her
neck and fired. The shot literally blew the
woman's head off. The murderer then es-
capped.
Mrs. Evans, who was twenty-six years
old, was a society woman. She married
Evans in 1898. Last Wednesday she filed
suit for divorce, alleging drunkenness and
cruelty, and at the same time brought suit
demanding that her husband pay $500 for
rent of the building occupied by the com
pany of which he was manager. The prop
erty, Mrs. Evans asserted, belonged to her,
and in addition she asked an order re-
straining Evans from disposing of two val
liable race horses and other property which
she said also belonged to her.
Mrs. Evans attracted much attention last
March, during the teamsters' strike, by
driving one of her husbands transfer wag-
one which the regular man refused to take
out of the barns. Mrs. Evans made special
trips perched on the seat of a big truck from
her husbands barns and freight houses
driving fearlessly through crowds of jeering
strikers. Once, when some of the strikers
tried to cut the horses's traces, she dashed
the men with her whip and proceeded with
out being further molested.
Two years ago Mrs. Evans also gained
some notoriety by horsewhipping a man who
had attempted to fiirt with her.
Mrs. Evans had feared that her husband
would kill her and had talked of her fears
last night. She locked the door of her room
when she retired, but, by a strange fatality
unfastened it during the night to gain fresh
air. Evans entered the house through the
pantry window, near which his umbrella
was found to-day, and apparently went di-
rectly to his wife's room. Mrs. Evans, awak
ened by the first two shots, was heard to
scream. In a moment more, when the thire
shot had been fired, her screams ceased
and when the servant reached her room
Mrs. Evans was dead.
Miss Bette Burns, Il neighbour, slept with
Mrs. Evans and narrowly escaped being
struck by the bullets fired at Mrs. Evans
Miss Burns awoke, aroused by the shots
fired i'm quick succession and climbing over
the dead body of her companion, q minute
later saw Evans standing in the middle OF
the room. In the confusion that enSued he
left the house unnOticed.
Evans was born in Kentucky thirty-eight
years ago and his father was sheriff OF
Breathitt county. Evans's father was sho'
and killed as the result of a feud. Evans hao
lived in Kansas City for many years and
is said to have married twice before. HI
married Lille Maude Perry, the sixteen
year-old daughter of Mrs. T.. G. Perry, q
widow of Argentine, Kan. Evans built uT
a prosperous transfer business from $10,00
given him by the woman he killed.