The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28

IL ID a. far a. pOsHible remover lFOth wv
Ralhes law style Of house and ~ much ire
auented by q group OF boheinians' artists
and writers. situated In the pecuniSry scale
aboant half way between the giided ana the
.e.Av Mos, Of its customers resort to 1t
for table d'h6te iuncheons and dinners,
while its few rooms are largely tcnanted
bv persons who make their homes there
m n very seldom visited by tranSients.
Mr. Hampton and Miss Tsczkaw had been
IN the hotel only once before their last and
fatal visit. On that occasion they were
merely there for dinner. On Thursday
AFTERNOON Mr.. Hampton visited the hotel
and engaged a room on the third floor,
rns..terinr "a "Mr. Sinclair Of Burlington,
va and saving that his wife would arrive
later. He then went away, not being been
a1ain that day by the hotel people, and
apanding the night, as 1t afterward ap-
peared, with his family at the Sheisea
apartments a. usual.
telephone message was recelved from
hin, M the United States Trust Company
an Friday morning aging that he was not
feaiinR we'll and would not he down 70
budness that day. Not long after ina ne
and Miss Tac2kaw arrived at the hotel
Crifou together and went to their room
an me third AOor. A little later Mr.. Hamp-
ton, went out and did not return until late
N me afternoon. What he did in the m
teryaI nobody knows. Miss Taczkaw spent
moot of the day IN her room. n ws vent
out and posted them, took a niue Walk
and returned to the hotel.
Tate i'm the afternoon Mr.. Hampton re-
turned. Soon after that he and the young
wonsn went down stairs and had dinner
in the hotel dining room. The waiter VINO
served them SAYS tina they were IN par
t~icularly good spirits and laughed ana
iesked n Rood deal. while Mr.. hampton
Y--I.zl 100 tho aNaDipO nQDpTa and COM
mehted laughingly on one or TWO poll.lctl
cartoons that they contained Inc PAIR
drank little. but when they went upstairs
asked for some claret, lemons ana sugar
with which to make u punch: MI Ramp
ton asked the clerk TO call him at lO ~; as
he had to take IA train for Burlington. Inc
pair then went upstairs. Nobody saw them
alive after that.
the maids employed Il the hotel, was turn
ing down n gaslight an the hall when she.
heard several explosions in RAPID successlon.
At frat abe was startled, but soon MADE up
her mind that the noise was part OF a poltl-
cal parade which was passing through the
next street.
half past TO-" saidthe maid yesterday
Il vent to the room to call them. raped
on the door and got no answer. raped
again and still nobody stirred, though mere
was a light in the room. Then called z
porter and we got a latchkey and ~pened
the door.
ME- HBlO0 IutTt lIOLCh W
The girl was lying partly on the bed and her
husband was lying fiat on his back. There
was blood all around them Dotn; l 3onC
know why | noticed il, but, the thing l re.
member hest is a little bunoh Of violets that
had fallen on the floor. 1t was all crushed
like somebody had stepped on II. L re-
member seeing it in the young woman
bosom when she was coming through the
hall with hin after dinner. she was inc
p~rettiest girl | ever saw.
Al telephone message TO the Mercer street
station house brought two detectives on the
run. There wasn't anything Tor them 70 90
Roth Hampton and the girl were dead,
Though their bodies we're still warm. After
the detectives had examined all the hotel
sta6. they telephoned to Coroner Shrady,
who got olaf Of bed and hurried 10 the hotel
Neither Of the bodies was disturbed untn
hampton was fully dressed in a dark
sack suit. He was lying fiat upon his BACK
10 his right hand was tightly grasped a
"a scalibre revolver all Of whose five cham,
hers had been emptied. In his left hand
he clenched the brim OF a derby nat inc
body lay in front of a mirror, az II the man
mikht have looked into the glass when
he shot himself and then spun around be-
fora he fell dead. One bullet had taken
his life. He had evidently placed the
muEzle OF the revolver in his mouth BEFORE
he pressed the trigger. Coroner physician
Leblanc found that the bullet mao enCe.6 IT,
the roof Of the mouth and passed INTO the
brain. Death must have been mTnedlaCe;
Miss Taczkaw lay upon the edge OF the
bed. She had removed her walking coat
and it lay over the back OF a cnalr' JInoi-
Wise she was fully dressed. She had eyl-
IDENTIFY been standing by tho side OF the
bed when Hampton shot her, Tor the UPPER
part of her body reclined upon the PEG ;
edge, while her feet were resting on the
floor. Her right arm was stretched out at
full length, while her left arm was thrown
up over her face AZ if in a last enort NJ pro-
lection.
One bullet had penetrated the young
woman's right cheek, passed through the
roof of the mouth and lodged in the lobe OF
the left ear. Another a passed through
the arm that she threw up for protection.
penetrated the left side below the oreast'
fractured "A rib, passed through the leIt
lung and spent itself in the heart NO
other bullet wounds we're found and there
were no traces of the two other DAuleUS 10
be found anywhere in the room:
In Hampton'S pockets were louhu en-.
Rrayed cards reading Louis q. hampton
and aMrs. Louis q. HAMPTON, Highland
n. Y several letters, a gold watch, a chain
$40 in cash and several trinkets.
In Miss TaCzkaw'S bag were iouhd q
variety OF articles. They included a re-
ceipt Tor the rent OF a fiat at IL West sixty;
third street, where the girls brother said
h family was going TO move soon; a Dahk-
book showing deposits in the Gree nwlcI
Sa1inCs Bank OF s5s7, of which $500 had
boen recently Withdrawn; u p~ocketoook
and a gold pencil. The $500 was not found
among her belongings anu theTe was li"I"
Ing TO show what she had done with It.
There were also many OF let
tiers. all in the handwriting Of Mr.. hamp-
ton. These had evidently been brought &C
tha hotel, intact, for there was a case II
which they had been carried. The Coroner
made an effort to piece them together, oI,
was obliged to give up the task; lie made
ont. however, that several Of them oegaL
sDSar Victoria" and that they CONTAINED
many endearing phrases. such as -dearesl
0irs smy own sweetheart" and my deal
SnS'" There we're other fragnentary phrase.
Ia he deciphered that indicated oeyono
doSbt that the writer was q man deeply II
Loye. -
thTt had gold buckles in the shape Of hearts
Onone heart were her own initials, vi. T.,
ans on the other the initials Of the ma
who yhot her, IL. G. H." About her DecI
she wore a locket that bore the Inscription
sAElanta, 1904" Inside her corset were
ROSARY and a chamois bag containing
hvS-dollar bill.
tpon the young wOman's neck was
dean red mark which the Coroner 8 physical
NIHuoses to have been made by hampton
haSda, presumably iD q struggle that pre-
ceded the shooting. But the room wa
In berfect order, and there was no other in
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