The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-01-21
STRANGE STORY OF
TELEPHONE MURDER
-
Man Opened instrument in Or.
der to Have Witness TO
His Crime.
AND THEN HE suicIOED
Before the Police Could Reach tho
Home a Wife Lay Dead and Her
Husband Dying on the Floor
a Few Feet Away. ,

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 19.-The
body Of pretty Pearl Guyette, the vic
tim of one of the most remarkable
tragedies ever recorded-that Of a muir
der While a dozen blocks away a a
standing at a telephone. listened TO the
screams of Il helpless oma and the
shots which ended her ~life-sas been
claimed by her brothers. That of her
husband, the man who Killed her and
then ended his own life, is still I'M
claimed. He was known both as How
ard Garfield and James Jennings.
Charles Guyette has taken h body OF
his sister, a former vaudeville favorite.
to Crasco. Ia, to be buried In the fam
lily lot there. Garfield has q Widowed
mother IN Pottsdam, N. Y.
Hhere is the story of the telephone
t~ragedy-thc most remarkable uldc
of modern times:
Money was the cause Of the murder.
TIC women and her husband quarreled
when she demanded the return of the
purse which he had taken from ner. The
housekeeper employed by the couple
had been liste9ling to the quarrel. Nhen
Garfield appeared about to strike his
wife the Woman interfered. With a
blow Garfield sent her through the door
into the hall and slammed it behind
her. Immediately locking it.
Then the husband conceived the plan
for the tiendish murdef-the telephone
tragedy. The holseheeper listened out
side tn" door and heard him go to the
telephone near the window. He called
for n lumber 1t was that of i sa-
loon kept by his friend, George Hart
sock, 81 Second avenue.
Tells Murder Plan.
Hello. Hello, Is that you, George"
he asked. Then
Listen! Hold the Wire! Listen! I'm
going to killS her."
The housekeeper's blood ran cold as,
she heard the words. But she was help
less.
Standing behind his cigar case in his,
saloon a dozen blocks away, Hartsock
listened. He heard a woman's screams
n the voices grew clearer as if APP
preaching the telephone, the transmit
ter of which was open, as Garfield had
left the receiver off p~urposely.
Then came sounds as if some one
had struck a tin nan four times. Hart
sock realized that these were the re-
ports Of a revolver and that murder
was being lone.
Ee telephoned to the central police,
station:
There's a murder being committed in
a room on the third f1oor of the Win
field block, Fifth street. opposite the
West hotel. A woman is being killed, /
tell you. Get there us quick as you
can"
The police telephone operator turned
In a riot call, which brought the patrol
wagon out from the barn in haste. Half
a dozen policemen climbed into the
wagon and Il fast run was made to the
scene of the tragedy.
Break in the door at the top OF the
second flight of stairs screamed the
housekeeper as the police entered the
building.
Rescuers Too Late.
Crash went the door a few seconds
afterward. But it was too. late. On the
1loor lay the body of the woman, her
head in a pool Of blood that was
trickling from her temple. She was
lead. A few feet away was the body
of the man. He was breathing, but IN
He had placed the muzzle
of the revolver in his mouth and aimed
upward. The bullet lodged in his
brain. He breathed his last at tho
City hospital less thar an o later.
Pearl Guyette, the victim of the MUIR
and dancer. She had frequented the
of variety theaters and vaude-
vile houses in the northwestern Iowa
and cities for several years.
While playing at the Central theater
at Hurley, Wis, II year ago she met
aer slayer. who was known there as
Jennings. He was a young man.
quiet in demeanor and always neatly
He was married but deserted
his wife and child, INK later on mar4
lied Pearl Guyette. This was in sep
A few weeks 6 he came to
and the couple took al
suite of rooms in the Winfield flats.
did not try to get work and
asked his wife for money. the
nousekeeper says. His wife aunte
with living on the earnings OF "a
woman. and the theory is that, sturi:s
BY her r~eproaches, he decided TO kin
her.
Had Money Hidden.
IT. has developed. however, that in all
he had plenty of money.
A. La Duke, 1872 East Lake street,
who knew Garfield at
says that he Went to South
Africa during the Boer war and
brought back with him $1,000. AS he
a not a drinker or a gambler, ii is
thought this money must be either on
deposit or hidden. When he called at
La Dukes home a few days before the
lIlal lG-l ~ oslA liiaL lis IldIl llilS ffliIDttlll-
in cash and did not intend to work
again at his trade, which, was tina of
Il plumber. Later, when Garfield was
a bill at a store, La Duke say
that he had a roll of bills amounting
to at least 5000. He also spoke Of 500
which he had on deposit in "A national
bank at Brooklyn and displayed Il cost
" diamond ring.
He had no need to be begging his
wife for money, and some think that
the woman had coaxed his money from
him and that their quarrel was brought
about by his determination to get it
back. While he did not drink there is
a suspicion that he smoked opium.
who enter the room soon after
the tragedy thought they detected the
smell Of q drug and the theory of the
detectives is that the murderer MAS
craZed by the drug.
ion n0n nEcYfYsGTE