Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-16

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produced instant death. and possibly
would not have produced death at all
simply passing through the bony part
of the face. The other one, however,
would have produced instant death"
He thought that all the shots were
fired by the man, and said; Il believe
that first he shot the woman behind
the ear, then turned the pistol on him
self. Then when his wound did not
produce death he rushed out to tell Mr..
Borcherding that she had done the
shooting. possibly hoping that he
would live. He then returned to the
room and finished his deadly work
with her to do away with suspicion
iesting p o him, and just about that
time his own wound was bleeding pro-
fusely. the blood streaming from his
mouth and nose and IL was probably
p~aining him severely, when he decided
to kill himself. too. firing the fatal shot
in his temple. The fifth shot which
took no effect, lodging in the door, |
think. was fired while he vas dying. |
that the man intended at first
both the woman and himself,
but as | have stated. | think after his
wound did not prove fatal at first, he
thought if possible he woul save his
Another theory is that the woman
shot Peterson in the face and then
shot herself in the head; that Peterson
rushed out and on returning thought
he might as well end it all, shot the
woman in the head to make death GER
tain, then shot wild, finally putting a
bullet in his own brain.
Peterson's Body Goes Home.
This afternoon Nagley G. Carr re-
"eived a telegram from p. N. Peterson
of Amherst. Wis, father of George
Peterson. in which instructions were
received to prepare and ship the body
there for interment.
The Husband Coming.
Upon a stand in the were
found some letters written by Mr..
Fairchild to his wife, telling her
what his route would be for the next
week. He was intending to run into
Ell Paso the early part of next week.
Who She Is.
The Ell Paso News. in its article re-
garding the horrible double tragedy,
The dead woman was a handsome
blonde, hardly more than rs years of
age. She is said to he the daughter
of Captain Tyler, formerly a merchant
and policeman of Albuquerque. She
is well known there, where she was
Media Tyler. About one year ago she
married to o. NJ. F%airchild, a
drummer of the Corticelli Silk com
pany. Mr.. Fairchild was a widower
and well known here. He was former
ly in partnership with j. r. Kingery,
of Calisher's store, of this city.
Two months ago Mrs. Fairchild
came here from San Bernardino, Cal,
with her mother and brother. She
was said to be in bad health, and they
rented a small house in the city.
Shortly after that Mrs. Tyler left and
Mrs. Fairchild secured rooms at the
rooming house. Mrs. Fairchild is
said to nave once clerked in the Econ
omist store in Albuquerque. The peo-
pie of the rooming house say they
had no idea that her relations were
anything but proper, if they were i'm
proper.
Shortly after she secured rooms
there George NJ. Peterson secured
lodging there. He registered from
Milwaukee, Wis, claimed to have been
a broker and appeared to be a man
of some a The pair were
in each others company often and
said that they were old friends.
The woman is said to have had
something like $1,000 worth of dia-
monds in rings and pins, which her
husband had given her.