Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-27
TWO DEAD UNDER
PACT PERHAPS TO.
LEAVE THE WORLD
Trust Company Official Kills
Companion and Self.
GIRL WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL
Weird Tragedy in New York Hos
telry Late Last Night.
MAN LED a DOUBLE LIFE
He Was Thought to Be Person of
Sterling Character-Had Wife
and Two Children.
NAN LED a DOUBLE LIFE

The assistant secretary of the
limited States Trust Company,
Louis c. Hampton, was perhaps
responsible for double tragedy in
la Gotham hosiery late last night.
He shot a girl companion to
her death, and then, turning the
pistol on himself, sent a ball crash
ling through his brain. The young
woman, who is described as being
remarkably beautiful, seems to
have entered into compact to die
with him. The latter led a
DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde life, so
common in the metropolis, having
la wife and two children in one part
of the city, while he carried on his
illicit relationship with his beautiful
young companion in another. To
Ibis associates in business and the
world at large he was known as
man of good standing and morality,
but the undercurrent was a muddy
|stream.
NEW YORK, October 27.-Louis G.
Hampton. assistant secretary of the United
States Trust Company of this city, shot
and killed Victoria 1. Taczkow, a very
beautiful young woman, in the Hotel Crit
fou in West 9th street. late last night. and
then committed suicide. Hampton was in
fatuated with the woman. and they had
past month. They had been at the hotel
where the tragedy occurred since early
yesterday. Whether or not the tragedy
was the result of pact between the man
and woman to die together has not been
determined. but the circumstances seem to
show that the young woman had agreed to
die with her companion.
Hampton. who was about sixty years old,
leavts a wife and two child. en-. NJ IS Taczkow
was twenty-nine years old. ana lived with
ldllItI dlfu illotHcl. Slic WeS GILL
ployed in a 9th avenue department store.
The United States Trust Company, OF
which L. G. Hampton was assistant secre-
tary. is one of the largest and strongest
trust companies in New York Ex-Secre-
tary Lyman ]. Gage was its president until
recently, and on his retirement Edward w.
Sheldon was elected president. and Mr..
champion for some time acted as secretary.
An Illicit Romance.
The events leading up to the tragedy have
been traced by the police, and according
70 them the last chapter in what looks like
an Illicit romance opened on Thursday
the Hotel Griffou and engaged a room
He said he would return late that night or
the next morning.
IT expect to have my wife with me-" he
said. as he was about to leave and then,
half hesitating, he said: Would you like
Eie to register now?"
The maid replied that the time to do this
was when he arrived at the hotel to take
the room. Hampton then left the hotel and
nothing more was seen of him until Friday
when about o o'clock he entered the hotel
accompanied by woman, and, going
straight up to the hotel office, he registered
as Mr.. and Mrs. Sinclair. Burlington, VT
The woman who accompanied him was sn
unusually handsome brunette She was
fashionably dressed and carried in her hand
g. small travelling bag.
The couple took breakfast and then went
to their room. The woman left the hotel
several times during the day but Hampton
remained in his room. Soon after she re-
turned from one of these trips light din
ner was sent to their room and a request
was sent to the clerk to call them at IL
o'clock last night.
I'VE want TO be called at IL SO that we
may catch a train" said Hampton.
Three Bullet Wounds.
From that time until 1890 nothing was
heard or seen of the couple. but at that
hour maid was in the corridor outside
the room which they occupied when she
heard what she thought was an explosion
IN the street. She took no particular notice
of II at the time.
At 1885 o'clock she went to the room to
call the couple. but when her repeated
raps at the door brought no response she
reported II to the Office. The room was
opened and the mystery explained.
On the floor at the far end of the room
between a large mirror and dresser lay
right hand was clutched the revolver, while