The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
DOUBLE TRAGEDY A PUZZLE.
NO MOTIVE ron CRIME or CA&A5-
TER HAMPTON.
Accounts with u. 8. Trust 90. All Raght- ne
n GlrI In nigh spirits shortly Befpse
shooting Victoria TaezA<Aw'S nrstnes
says Nc PromIsed 70 wed Hsr.

and Girl In Nigh Spirits shortly neEeSv
Shooting -VictoFia TacxtAw'S nretner
Says He Promised % wed Hee.
The friends. relatives and business assoc
ciates OF Louis G.. Hampton. assistant
secretary Of the United States Trust CONS
pany Of Is Wall street. are still wondeTing
why he shot and killed himself and Victoria
ploYsd as a corset model by a Sixth avenue
department store, at the Hotel Grfou. ~
West Ninth street. on Friday evening. Mr.
Hampton was a business man In exce1ent
standing with his associates. He had heid
mis- position Of trust with an important
company for fifteen years. He left his
home and his wife and daughter at the
Chelsea apartments, 222 West Twenty-third
street. apparently in his usual health and
spirits on Friday morning. Last evening
his body was taken from the Morgue and
carried to an undertaking establishments
just across the street from the Chelsea
he was 90 years old; his victim was but 30.
From patching together the various
bits Of information contributed by the
I guns tinptOycIS dU0 ICkhbANCo ~ oPPD8Au
that the double life hat came to so violent
an end in the quiet little hotel in Ninth
street had been going on six months or
more. Nobody knows just how long Mr..
Hampton had known Miss Taczkaw. but
J for several months he had been going 10
meet her at her place Of employment When
her day work was done and driving away
with her in a cab. Where they paased
their time together or how much they saw
OF each other there. is nobody left alive
to tell, but the girls brother, Staniaiaus
Taczkaw, declares that his sister was q
good, pure girl and that she never spent
a night way from her home at Isl East
Thirteenth street, where Der body was
brought from the Morgue yesterday after
noon after the Coroners physician YES
through with his examination.
However that may be, it seems probable
that Miss Taczkaw had gone 70 the Hotel
Grifou expecting to spend the night away
from home. She had told her people At
home that she was going 20 visit a girl
friend and that they must not be alarmed
if she did not return until the NEXT day.
In the Gladstone bag which she oarrisd
to the hotel were found a nightgown n
other articles which indicated that ahe
did not intend to return home that night.
When the girls brother, who Is an electri-
clan employed at the power house at Forty
first street and First av enue, was told thaa
his sister had been killed. he exclaimed;
my Cod knew something was wrong.
At bali past 10 last night all the lights on
my dynamos went out without any reasna
that / could see. It happened that way
once before when my father was taken IN
Later, when Coroner 6hrsdy saw hiAs
he said:
Il saw my sister with Mr.. Hampton ab0us
three or four months g and l knew that
she saw him often. We thought he wa@
broker. Once I said to her: What are
you fooling round with that old man for.
Victorian She told me that he was q
widower with one child and that he wan
going to marry her by and by as soon 90
he could. He had told her that he couldnt
marry her so long as his mother was alivo
because she had threatened to disinherit
him il he married again. My sister said
that Hampton's mother was Ill and that
she probably would not live very long.
When she died the marriage would taxa
place. l know she had no idea that he vas
married. She was a good girl. Ask the neigh
bors. There was never a breath otsuspicioa
about Victoria among the people who
knew her best
There was only one person who seems to
have known that Mr.. Hampton's private lie
was not all that il should nave been. This
was his brother. l.. A. Hampton. who lives
at 80 West Seventeenth street. He said
yesterday that he had known Of his brothers
~infatuation for Miss Taczkaw and bad
demonstrated with him. telling him that he
must be crazy.
We'll, maybe / am he says his brother
replied. but II anything happens to ms
you get the KEY OF my safety deposit box.
You may find something there that win
explain il ALL"
Following this request, Mr.. Hampton
called on Coroner Shrady yesterday and
asked for the key to his brothers safety
deposit box. but the Coroner declined 10
give it 70 him on the ground that u any
one was entitled TO it it was he widow.
T h Coroner expects that Mrs. Hamptou
will make application for the key on Mon
day. II she does il will be handed over
TO her. Whether the contents Of the safety
deposit box will explain the tragedy 70
something that perhaps only Mrs. Hampton
will ever know.
That financial affairs had anything 20
do with The murder and suicide does not
appear probable. All Mr.. Hampton's buai-
ness associates at the United States Trust
Company agree in saying that his Affairs
there were in perfect condition. willianA
NJ. Kingsley, second vioe-president Of tha
United States Trust Company, declared
that there was absolutely nothing wrong
about Mr.. Hampton's relations with the
company.
MIR. Hampton had been with the couA-
pany about thirty-hvs years. said Mr..
Kingsley. He was a protege Of John A.
Stewart, formerly president Of the com-
pany and now chairman Of its board Of
trustees. We all thought he was living
happily with his family. and you cen Inn
agine how shocked we were at this dreadful
news. None OF US had the ~faintest idea
that anything was wrong until we heard
OF the tragedy"
Mr.. Kingsley explained the note found Ia
Mr.. Hampton's pocket stating that m en-
pert was examining the books OF the COM
pany by saying that this examination waa
merely one to determine whether there
we're any more up-to-date devices that
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