The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-12
sHROUDED IN MYSTERY
PROBABLE THAT JEALOUSY WAS
CAUSE OF THE CRIME.
Dead Koman's Husband Terribly
Dazed by the Affair-Had Never
Heard OF Dumas.

At this point the younger daughter Nettie
came into the room and went to the side of
her mother. AS she did so her dress brushed
the coat Of the dead man on the floor and
revealed her mothers likeness on a photo
graph pin fastened TO his vest. With a
moan that was heard far outside the house
she stopped to unfasten the pin. but her
fingers refused TO act. MY Godl Wont
some one take that picture away from him?
Please take 1t offr' she cried. Deputy Cor
oner Gels placed the pin in his pocket and
told her that he would see that IL was re-
turned to her.
GIRLS HAD KNOWN.
Nettie King and her sister Alice both said
they had known for some time that Dumas
was calling in the afternoons on their
mother, but had not told their father about
it. as they feared it would break up the
family. Nettie said that Dumas had been
calling on her mother for the last two years
and that both she and her sister had plead.
ed with their mother and begged and
coaxed her to have nothing more to do with
the man. but their appeals were In vain.
Mr.. King was in total ignorance OF his
wifes misdeeds. and until confronted with
the scene at his home yesterday afternoon.
that told the story without words. he b.
lieved her TO be true TO him and TO her chill
dren.
Dumas is a married man. but for the
past two years has not been living with
his wife. They separated IL is said, be-
cause Of his attentions to Mrs. King. Mrs.
Dumas and her daughter live at 227 'Bick-
ing street. and both were much shocked
over yesterdays affair.
Mrs. King was formerly Miss Sarah
Frances Wendell and was born in this city.
and Dumas, who is transfer man with an
office at 357 South Meridian street, is also
native of Indianapolis.
They became acquainted at a Salvation
Army meeting. IL is said. and were infatu-
ated with each other at first sight and
often met there afterwards. Dumas began
to neglect his wife and family and when
the cause was learned left his home and
went to live at 81 Downey street. where
he has resided since. He has always borne
a good reputation. and outside OF his
domestic trouble has been considered q
good man.
NEIGHBoRHOOD GOSSIP.
During the last month or so his atten-
tions to Mrs. King were more open than
formerly and his calls at the King resi-
dence were neighborhood gossip. The house
in which Mrs. King lived and met her
death at the hands OF her lover Is a double
frame building and Mrs. Sterwold. who
lives in the east half. said that she heard
three muffled shots at half-past o'clock
and moment later heard a dull thud as
II some one had fallen. She ran out OF the
house and looked up and down the street
but could see nothing and then ran down
the alley at the side OF the house. but found
everything quiet there. Several children
said they heard no noise and thinking that
she might have been mistaken. she went.
back into her house and thought more
about IL until she heard the screams OF the
oldest King girl when she discovered the
body of her mother covered with lhlood on
the lounge.
Dumas was about forty-hve years old
and is survived by his wife. daughter and a
son, Arthur L. Dumas. of 63s Prospect
street. When last night Arthur l.
Dumas said that he did not know when the
funeral will be held. but the body had
been placed in the hands OF Whitsett q
Culver for burial. The mother and sister,
he said. were overcome with grief, his sis
ter being on the verge Of nervous pros
tartion.
Mrs. King was forty-four years old and
is survived by her husband and two daugh-
ters, Alice and Nettie. Her funeral will be
held from the late residence tomorrow
afternoon.