Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-05-16
THE DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Particulars Of the Ell PdsO Crime,
When Media Tyler Was Killed.
SAD END OF ILLICIT LOVE.

FL Paso Herald, May Is.
A mysterious crime was committed
in this city this morning, in the Ra-
mona rooming house on North Stanton
street, which resulted in the death
of Mrs. O.. NJ. Fairchild and Geo. p.
Peterson, the former a beautiful wo-
man about thirty years of age, and
the wife of o. NJ. Fairchild, who
travels for the Corticelli silk concern
in st. Louis, the latter a handsome
young man twenty years of age, the
son of p. N. Peterson, a wealthy pro-
duce merchant of Amherst, Wis.
Mrs. Fairchild roomed on the
third floor of the building while the
was in her room that the shooting oc-
Cured.
Mr.. BoncheEdins,s Statement.
Arthur Borcherding, proprietor OF
the house, speaking to a Herald re-
porter of the crime said:
There has been nothing to in
dictate any relations between the two
further than that they were close
friends and | thought they were re-
spectacle people. The actions OF
these people have been proper as far
as anybody in the house could see.
| believe that Peterson did the
killing. He sleeps on the floor below
the one on which she rooms and
sleep on the floor on which, her room
Is located. When Peterson came to
my room | had not been aroused by
the shooting and he awoke me by
knocking on the door. | jumped up
and when | opened the door he was
standing in front of it, blood dripping
from his face and an awful sight. He
said that Mrs. Fairchild mad shot him
and that he was dying.
told him to return to his room OF
go to the bath room and then | rushed
to Mrs. Fairchild's room. He went
ahead of me and when | looked in she
was lying on the floor as if dead, a
wound in her head, and he was sitting
on her bed, blood flowing from his
wounds. He again asked me to do
something for him and then | rushed
back to get into my trousers and came
to the room a second time.
This time | asked him how it hap
pened and he murmered something
that / could not understand, but a
man across the hall says that he said:
How do you know she did not shoot
me?'
"As we turned away for help | heard
three more shots m rushing back
we saw Peterson in the last throes OF
death, a pistol by his hand and the
body of the woman still in the same
position that we first discovered it
One of the shots had entered the floor
there were two wounds in Peterson's
head and two in the woman's. AS one
of the boarders heard the first shots
and as the woman and Peterson were
both shot, showing that one bulle
went for each, it is certain that o
the last three shots fired one of then
was for him and one for her, whil'
the other went into the floor.
81 am satisfied that he fired the las
shots without a doubt, for / believe
she was, dead when we first entere,
the room and | am equally satisfied
that Peterson fired all the shots,
think he went to her room and tina
a difficulty followed and he shot her
Peterson asked me about a weel
ago for the loan of a revolver and
told him | had none. ! offered him
target rife and asked him what h
wanted L do and he said he wante.
to go out in the mountain early in tn
morning and that a target rife woul
moi do"
The bodies were removed to tn