The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-01-22
STRANGE STORY OF !
TELEPHONE MURDER
Mar Opened instrument in Or
der to Have Witness to
His Crime.
AND THEN He sulc'OED
Before the Police Could Reach thu
Home a Wife Lay Dead and Her
Husband Dying on the Floor
a Few Feet Away.

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Husband Dying on the Floor
a Few Feet Away.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. ls.-Ihe
body of pretty Pearl Guyette. the VIC
tim of II Of the most remarkable
tragedies ever recorded-that of a muir
der while g. dozen blocks away a man..
standing at a telephone, listened to inc
screams of a helpless woman and II
shots which ended her life-has been
claimed by her brothers. That OF her
husband, the man who killed her M
then ended his own life, is still UNI
claimed. He was known both as How
ard Garfield and James Jennings:
Charles Guyette mas taken the BODY OIL
his sister, a former vaudeville faVoflte'
to Cresco, Ia, to be buried in the FAM
lily lot there. Garfield has a widowed
mother in Pottsdam, N. Y.
Hhere is the. story of the telephone
tragedy-the most remarkable murder
of modern times:
Money a the cause of the murder:
The women and her husband quarreled
when she demanded the return OF the
purse which he had taken from her. Inc
5housekeeper employed by the couple
had been listening to the quarrel. When
Garfield appeared about to strike ms
wife the woman interfered. With a
GLOW Garfield sent her through the door
Into the hall and slammed it behind
her, Immediately locking it.
Then the husband conceived the plant
for the flendish murder-the ephon
tragedy. The housekeeper listened out
side the. door and heard him go to the
telephone near the window. He called
for a number. 1t was that of a sa-
loon kept by his friend, George Hart
sock, in Second avenue
Tells Murder Plan.
Hello! Hello! Is that you, George?"
he asked. Then
Listen! Hold the wire! LISTEN! I'm
going to kill 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 q dozen blocks away Hartsock
listened. He heard a woman's screams
and the voices grew clearer as If ap-i
preaching the telephone, the transmits
Ter of which was open, as Garfield had,
left the receiver off ~purposely.
Then came sounds as If some one!
had struck a tin par -four times. Hart!
sock realized that these were the res
ports of a revolver and that murderl
was being done.
He te%lephoned to the central police
station:
There's a murder being committed in,
q room or the third floor of the Win
feld block, Fifth street, opposite the
West hotel. A woma is being killed, !
tell you. Get there as quick as you
cam" *
The police telephone operator urned
In a riot call, which brought the patrol
wagon out from the barn in haste. Half
q dozen policemen climbed into the
wagon and a 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
ihousekeeper as the police entered the
building.
Rescuers Too Late.
Crash went the door a few seconds
afterward. But it vas too late. On the
door lay the body OF the woman, her
head in a pool Of blood that was
trickling from her temple. She was
dead. A few feet away was the body,
of the man. He was breathing, but I'M
conscious. 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 the
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Pearl Guyette, the victim Of the muir
der, was a vaudeville artist, a singer
and dancer. She had ~frequented the
circuit OF variety theaters and vaude-
vile houses in the northwestern iowa
towns and cities for several years.
While playing at the Central theater
at Hurley, Wis, a year ago she met
her slayer, who was known there as
James Jennings. He was a young man,
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dressed. He was married but deserted
his wife and child, and later on mar
ried Pearl Guyette. This was in Sep
TENDER. A few weeks ago he came Ia
Minneapolis and the couple took q
suite Of rooms in the Winfield fats,
Garfield did not try to get work and
often asked his wife for money, tho
housekeeper says. His wife tainted
him with living on the earnings of q
woman, and the theory is that, stun;
by her r~eproaches, he decided to Kill
her.
Had Money Hidden.
1t has developed, however, that in all
probability he had plenty of money.
H. A. La Duke, 1872 East Lake street,
Minneapolis, who knew Garfield at
Pottsdalm. says that he went to South
Africa during the Boer war and
brought back with him $1,000. AS he
was not a drinker or a gambler, it In
thought this money must be either on
deposit or hidden. When he called at
La Dukes home a few days before thu
murder he said that he had this amount
in cash and did not intend to work
again at his trade, which was that OF
g. plumber. Later. when Garfield waa
paying a bill at a store, La Duke say
that he had a roll of bills amounting
to at least $500. He also spoke of SOD
which he had on deposit in a national
bank at Brooklyn and displayed a cost
ly diamond ring.
He had no need to be begging his
wife for money. M 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,
Those who enter the room soon after
the tragedy thought they detected the
smell OF a drug and the theory of the
detectives is that the murderer was
crazed by the drug.
100000 DESTITUTE