The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-22
STRANGE STORY OF
TELEPHONE MURDER
Man Opened instrument in Or
der to Have Witness to
His Crime.
AND THEN HE su'clDEo
Before the Police Could Reach tn.
Homo a Wife Lay Dead and Her
Husband Dying on the Floor
Few Feet Away.

Home a Wife Lay Dead and Her
Husband Dying on the Floor
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 q u
der While a dozen blocks AVA a man,
standing at a telephone. listened to the
screams of O helpless m and the
shots which ended her life-has been
claimed by her brothers. That of her
husband, the man who killed her and
then ended his own life. is still un-
claimed. He was Known both as How
ard Garfield and James Jennings.
Charles Guyette has taken the body of
his sister, a former vaudeville favorite,
to Cresco, Ia, to be buried In the fam
NY lot there. Garfield has a widowed
mother In Pottsdaln, N. Y.
Hhere is the story Of the telephone
tragedy-the most remarkable murder
OF modern times:
Money a the cause of he murder.
The women and her husband quarreled
when she demanded the return of the
purse which he had taken from her. The
housekeeper employed by the couple
aad been listening to the quarrel. When
fairfield appeared about to strike his
wife the interfered. With q
GLOW Garfield sent her through the door
into the hall n slammed it behind
her. Immediately locking it.
Then the husband conceived the plan
for the flendish murder-the telephone
tragedy. The housekeeper listened OUT
side the door and heard him go to the
telephone near the window. He called
En,. n r1Sy1hor If xrno that nf q C1-
loon kept by his friend, George Hart
sock, III Second e
Tells Murder Plan.
Hello! Hello! Is tina 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 APP
preaching the telephone, the transmit
Ter of which was open, as Garfield had
eft the receiver off purposely.
Then came sounds as IL some n
had struck a tin pan four times. Hart
sock realized that these We're the re-
ports of a revolver and that murder
was being lone.
He t%elephoned to the central police
station:
There's a murder being committed in.
. room or the third floor of the Win
field block, Fifth street. opposite the
West hotel. A woman is being killed, L
tell you. Get there as quick as you
cam"
The police telephone operator turned
IN a riot call, which brought the patrol
ago out from h barn in haste. Half
L dozen policemen climbed into the
wagon and a fast RUIZ 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 doc a few seconds
afterward. But it was too late. On the
aoor lay the body OF the Woman her
head in a pool of blood that was
srickling from her temple. She was
dead. A few feet away was the body
of the man. He was breathing, but I'M
conscious. He a placed the muzzle
upward. The bullet lodged in his
brain. He breathed his last at the
City hospital less than an hour later.
Pearl Guyette, the victim of the III
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 IL a
quiet in demeanor and always neatly
dressed. He was married but deserted
his wife INC child, and later on mar
ried Pearl Guyette. This was in Sep
foy1,har A faNv weeks 100 ha came ia
Minneapolis and the couple took q
suite Of rooms in the Winfield flats,
Garfield did not try to get work and
often asked his wife for money, the
housekeeper says. His wife tainted
him with living on the earnings of "a
woman. and the theory is that, stuna
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 Cast LAX street.
Minneapolis, who knew Garfield at
Pottsdam, says that he went to South
Africa during the Boer war and
brought back with him 81, 900. AS ha
was not q drinker or a gambler, it is
thought this money must be either on
deposit or hidden. When he called at
La Dukes home a few days before the
murder he said that he had this amount
in cash and did not intend to work.
again at his trade, which was that of
a plumber. Later, when Garfield was
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, 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
q suSnicion that he smoked ani,1rn