Morris tribune., 1904-06-04
BULLET her MlSSIVE
FURY OF A WOMAN ScORNED
CAUSE OF DOUBLE SHOOT
ING AT DONNELLY.
RAY HARRISON, or DoNNELLY,
is PROBABLY FATALLY WOUND
ED BY METZ MAIN, WHO
THEN SHOOTS HERSELF.


MAIN shot and fatally wounded Ray
w, Harrison, the we'll known mer
chant of that place. She then sent 6
bullet thru her own heart and died
Immediately.
The news of the affair reached here
about HOO in the form of telegram
from Tim MaIoney, the marshal al
Donnelly, summoning the coroner
DIR. Game, Sheriff Delahunt County
Attorney Bicknell, Deputy Sheriff
Thomson and the editor of the Trltr
une went to Dounelly on the one
O'Clock train. returning on No. 10
The people of the little village OF
Donnelly we're all up and about, but
the awful tragedy which had just
been enacted had cast a deep gloom
over all: In his room in the hotel
Ray Harrison was lying with bullet
wound in his right side, and in hont
of his door lay the lifeless body OF
Mete Main, shot thru the heart.
The coroner ordered the body to be
removed, and then after a consulta-
ton of the doctors, it was decided
that there was no hope of saving the
life of Harrison unless he could be
placed in a hospital and receive ex-
pert care Immediately. The train
was held long enough for him to be
prepared for his journey to Minneap-
oils, which he made lying on spring
cot in the baggage car DR., White
more accompanied him to St. Marv's
hospital, where he was operated upon
and his wounds dressed.
There were no eye witnesses of the
awful tragedy, but the facts are very
plain. Miss Main had engaged a
room next to Harrison's, and had
then concealed herself in an unused
room directly across from Harrison's.
This room. was dark, but the light
from the office below illuminated the
hallway along which Harrison must
come. A young man occupied the
room next to where she was concealed
and says that he heard no words
spoken between them before the shots
were fired Harrison was shot at the
door of his room. but managed to get
inside and shut the door, meanwhile
screaming for assistance. Miss Main
then placed the revolver at her own
breast and with last cry of anguish |
of go, my God' expired.
Ray Harrison has been a prosper
GUS and progressive merchant of Don
nelly, being the junior member of the
firm of Davis & Harrison. He came
to Donnelly about five years ago, and |
since that time has become we'll and |
f?vorably known thru that portion of
the county, as we'll as in Morris. He
was unmarried and lived at the DON
nelly hotel. His mother is dead, but
his father is living and spend his time
at Donnelly or Willard or at his home
in Iowa. Ray Harrison was we'll
liked among his fellows, generally
well regarded among people with
whom he was acquainted.
The young lady came to Donnelly
a matter of two or three years ago,
from a well-to-do and highly re-
spected family of Hector, MINI. She
went to work in the hotel-her first
experience in working out, and there
met Harrison, and they became in
innate This continued for some time,
until he finally tried to dismiss her,
and for the past year or more, she
has been absent from Donnelly most
Of the time. Turnout the year, she
she has cherished her infatuation OF
Harrison, but looked upon him as
the cause of her downfall. When she
saw him in the company of another,
she determined that he should be
with her in death if not in life, and
50 wearing the watch he had given
her, she fired the two fatal shots. G
The following letter was found in l.
her room. g
Donnelly, Mimi, May 80, 1904. a
Dear Friends, if I have any. You ri
will wonder why I have done this n
Simply because I couldn't live with
,ut Raw, the man that wronged me a
md I loved him and he deceived me. OF
which IS killing me by the inch. I II
ave one friend who has befriended TT
IS both. He has advised to try and L
orget, but it is impossible I wish &C