The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-29
CORONER THINKS AGED FlNAN'
cIER HELD WOMAN AND
SHOT HER TO DEATH,
new POINT is RAISED
IN the Sensational Double Tragedy in
New York BY Disappearance of
Savings--Familes Insist On
Rigid Examination
New York. Oct. Aecordlng o

New York, Oct. 2S.--Accordine to
statements credited TO Or Iehane.
tho coronere physician. there is p 81
tive evidence that there wa no sui
eide agreement between Miss Victoria
I. Taczkow and Louis G Hampton, as
sistant secretary Of the United States
Trust company. who killed the woman
and then himself in the Hotel Grif
fou early Saturday morning.
The physician is satisfied that the
woman made a determined struggle
to save her life. as the left side Of her
face extending under the left ear
bore traces of having been held
for-ibly in the grip Of mans hand
and Dr. Leblanc is Of the opinion tnat
Hampton held Miss Taczkow while he
fired one of the shots.
Hampton was infatuated with the
woman and thew had been seen to-
aather many times during the past
month. They had been al the hotel
where the tragedy occurred since
early Friday Hampton who was about
ca years old. leave. a wife and two
children Miss Taezkow was 90 year
old. and lived with her father and in
valid mother She wes employed IN a
Fifth avenue department store,
The United States Trust company.
Of which Hampton was assistant sec
retary, Is one Of the largest and
strongest companies in New York. EE
Secretary Lyman J. Gage wa its
president until recently, and on his re
tirement Edward w shelton was
elected president and Mr. Hampton
for some time acted as secretary.
Romance is Revealed.
The events leading UP to the
tragedy have been traced by the po-
lice. ana. aceorGing 81 tn ~ tho last
chapter in wnat looks like an illicit
romance, opened on Thursday after
noon last, when Hampton called at
the Hotel Griifou and engaged a roam
lie said he would return that night
on the next morning.
Hampton then left, and nothing
more waa seen of him until FridaY
morning when about o'clock he en-
tered the hotel, accompanied by a
woman, and going straight up to the
hotel Office, he reg tered rs Mr. and
Mrs. Sinclair Burlington, VI.
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 returned from
one Of these excursions early in the
evening a light dinner was sent TO
their room. and request was sent to
the clerk TO call them at II O'Clock
last night.
From that time until 1880 O'Clock
nothing was heard or seen of the
couple, but at that nour maid was
i'm the corridor outside the room
which they occupied, wien she heard
what she thought was an eXpl0si in
the street.. She took no particular
notice of ii at the time.
Al five minutes to II o'clock she
went TO the room to call the couple,
bat when her repeated raps on the
door brought no response she notified
ne hotel office The room was opened
with a ras key and the mystery was
explained.
on III, floor in the far end of the
room. between a large mirror and a
Dire SER lay The man. stretched ont ON
his back. in his right hand was
clutched revolver while his hat was
held tightly in his left hand. a shot
fired into his mouth had entered his
brail. killing him instantly Directly
in front was the bed and upon it was
the woman, also dead.
In her arm were three bullet
wounds. none Of which appea;et
mu-h more than flesh wounds. but
right under the left armpit was a
fourth wound The bullet had been
fired evidently after the woman had
Junk back on to The bed. and must
have gone through the heart
Brother identifies Woman.
The first positive identification Of
the victims Of the tragedy was made
bv the dead woman's brother. He nad
been notified that young woman
wearing jewelry bearing his sister
initials had been murdered. and went
To a police station 10 look at the ar
ticles which had been taken there.
H. at once recognized pair Of silk
gauers with gold buckles as the prop
erty of hi- sister. One cf the buckles
here the letters " J. T. while on
the other was inscribed L. G. H
Young Taezkow also told the police
that Hampton had been very attentive
10 his sister for some time.
Louis G.. Hampton had a GUNNER
home at Highland, in Ulster county.
this state. and Mrs. Hampton ami her
daughter spent the last summer m here.