The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-02
MAN WHO SHOT HIS
RELATIVES is INSANE

Versailles, Aug. 1.-Grief n sorrow
reign today in the residence near Nep-
tune park of the stricken Huntington
family, where last night Henry Hunt.
ington, son of Major Douglas ST. George
Huntington, shot down two sisters and
TWO brothers at the moment the mem.
bers of the family had gathered around
the deathbed of the father.
Major Huntington is breathing his
last. The condition of Elizabeth. and
be desperate, although not hopeless.
The wounds inflicted upon Edith and
Douglas Huntington are not serious.
Mrs. Huntington. their mother, is
completely FRUSTRATED from the shock
and is confined to her bed. A few blocks
away Henry. who Is resardea by his
family and friends as d~enlented, is in
jail.
Major Huntington is a retired army
officer. and prior TIC taking up his resi-
dence abroad ne liNed in Chicago, where
he was sun associate of those prominent
in army and business circles.
How Tragedy Occurred.
The following correct account of the
occurrence last night was obtained to-
day:
Henry, the youngest SON of Major
Huntington, has been considered M
balanced mentally for years. He has
had a mania that he had solved the
science of curing disease, and constant
ly concocted the most impossible rem
edies.
His father. having found it impos-
sible to control him, gave him an all
lowance and permitted him to go his
own way. Henry has lived in Paris or
Aisne, where some time ago he married
the daughter of a doctor.
There was no family arrangement.
When Henry arrived yesterday in re-
Snnnca IN a mecca a ha ctrl)tta5 into
the bed room of his parent mumbling
about his father not receiving the prop
Ell medical treatment. He did not kneel
at the bedside n ask forgiveness, as
reported, but began ~tnterrogating Major
Huntington. When his father, whose
emily Henry turned abruptly tc che
family and said angrily: Don't you
see that you are killing him?'
Henry at once became more excited.
The family tried to persuade hin to
go n the drawing room and talk the
question over there. He refused. and
insisted the only way to cure his father
was to administer the blood of a dog
mixed with sea water, a remedy which
he had invented.
firing. of his persistence his brother
Douglas finally opened the bed room
door and said: II am the eldest, and
ask you TO leave and not RETURN
Edith F. Huntington also abiured her
brother to depart and not create fur
Their disturbance. They pushed Henry
towards the door. Suddenly he drew
a revolver and fired one SHOT each at
the brothers n sisters. In the mean
time one of the guards of the Yer
sailles park. Who happened to be in
the Kitchen downstairs, accompanied
by the household servants. rushed to
the room II wrenched the revolver
from the hands of the mailman.
Dcfense: Provocat;on.
The funeral of Major Huntington will
take place next Tuesday in the Eng
lish church and the body will be sent
to the United States.
Alonzo Huntington. shot through tho
lung, is still in a precarious condition
Edith Huntington's condition is still
serious and Mrs. huntington, the moth.
CT. is Frustrated.
Henry Huntington was examined b,
n doctor today and talked at random
The magistrate declined to permit 4;
correspondent of the Associated Pres.
to see the prisoner on III grounds that
in his present condition, h. is not re.
sPonsibls for what liz says. Henry;
wife told the correspondent IN. ha:
engaged N.aitre Laori, one of the hes
kaown criminal lawyers in Paris. Il
defend her husband.