The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-08
SHOOTS HIS WIFE
| And KILLS |. SELF
HENRY MoRIsETTE BRINGS END
TO UNHAPPY DOMESTIC LIFE.
While at Work, Driver Plans Tragedy
and Returns Home to Garry It OUT
Waits at Wife's DOOR and Shoots as
She Emerges -Woman Will Live.

After trying to kill his wife, Henry
Morisette went to the kitchen OF their
home, 80 Tenth street s, and shot him
self. The man died instantly, but the
woman will recover. II.
Morisette, was % years old and Tri-
bune wagon driver. His wife is 26
years old and they have been married
nine years. Lately there had been
much domestic discord and last night
tracted quarrel, Mrs. Morisette called
in the patrolman from the beat as a
witness to her declaration that she
could no longer live with her husband
Morisette sullenly concurred in the
statement, but said he would remain in
the house over night and prepare to re-
move his effects in the morning.
Leaving the house before retiring,
Morisette provided himself with re-
volver, and this morning, when Mrs.
Morisette stepped from her room, he
her at short range. The bullet struck
her in the forehead and she dropped
with a scream. Surprising her dead,
Morisette ran to the rear Of the house
and shot himself thru the head.
Relatives Cause Strife.
There has been. more or less trouble
in the Morisette family during the ZEN
tire nine years Of their married life,
but matters always have been patched
up and there was no serious rupture un-
til two weeks ago. 4
The trouble between the husband
| and wife was aggravated, it. is said, by
her sisters, Josephine and Rose Guertin,
who lived with the Morisettes. Mort
settle objected to their presence, but
Mrs. Morisette declared that he had
not supported her as he should and
that. the sisters would help pay the
his wife that unless the sister left the
house he would shoot everyone in the
family but the three children. They
laughed at the threat, thinking that he
was only trying to brighten them and
gain his point.
Planned Crime While at Work.
For two weeks Mr.. and Mrs. Mort
Tsette had not been living together, and
once in that time the police were sum.
! moned to stop a family quarrel. Last
| night Morisette asked permission to
stay with his children, and it was given.
He arose at the usual early hour and
went to deliver the morning papers. He
| returned and carried out his threat. He
| evidently had planned his crime while
at work.
AS soon as the shot was fred, Mort
settle ran to the kitchen where he killed
himself, and the police were called by
the injured woman s. sisters. The pa
| troll wagon came and Patrolman Peter
Mclaughlin, thinking the man was at
bay in the room, broke in, intending to
capture him. Instead, he found the
man dead, and the coroner was notified
at once.
! The Humane society was notified that
lthree little children were left father
Hess, but Mrs. Morisette says that she
land her sisters will be able to take care
| of them without outside aid. The
| wounded woman will be able to leave
the hospital in a few days. The chill
| dren were not out of bed when the
shooting occurred, but they were
| heart broken when told that their
father was dead and their mother in.
jured. Their aunts comforted them
and permission was obtained to take
them to the city hospital this after
noon to see their mother.
! The Morisettes came from Henderson
seven months ago. The oldest child is
7 years old and the youngest one is g.