The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-30
TRIED TO KILL
HIMSELF IN JAIL
Henry Huntington, Who Shot
Brothers and Sisters, Over
come by RemorSe.
AGED FATHER PASSES AWAY
FRENCH OFFICIALS PROMISE
STRICT INQUIRY.
AGED FATHER PASSES AWAY

Versailles. July 29-The death of the
aged American soldier, himself and an
attempt at self-destruction on the part
of his son Henry, who shot, his sisters
and brothers on Sunday in the last hours
of his dying father. impaired additional
sadness today to the shocking tragedy in
the home OF Major Henry A. Huntington.
which has caused a sensation in the
American colony and diplomatic circles
of France.
Major Huntington died this evening
shortly after the news was given out of
his son Henry's unsuccessful attempt at
suicide. But the father was spared the
anguish of knowledge of both this in
cident and the terrible crime which shat
tered his household. as he was uncon-
scious to the end.
The Frustrated wife. his daughter Edith
and his son Douglas, whose slight wounds
permitted them to pay the last hOnors
TO the dying man, were present in the
chamber when the end came.
Tried to Strange Himself.
According to the police Henry attempt
ed suicide in his cell with a silk hand
kerChief, which he tied around his neck
and fastened 10 the bars, seeking 10
strange himself slowly by means of a
tourniquet. The taller, who had been in
structed TO watch the prisoner closely,
detected the act in time to. prevent seTi-
GUS results ana IL was announced IndI
Henry had not succeeded in injuring
himself.
The swift. sequence of tragic incidents
in the Huntington family, which is one
of the best known here. has cast a gloom
over Versailles. Though plunged in grief
at the death of the head of the house.
hold the mother and children have had
time TO interpret Henry's effort at self
destruction as additional evidence of the
mental responsibility which they say
he has manifested for a long time in
certain directions
His wife, however, declares it was the
natural result of remOrse at, the dreadful
acts which he committed in a sudden out
burst of uncomfortable fury at the inter
ference of his brothers when he hurried
TO the bedside of his dying father
Will Make Rigid Inquiry.
The French judicial authorities feel
that searching probes alone will bring out
the exact happenings in the Huntington
villa which antedated the shooting.
On the subject of just what occurred
on the night of the tragedy there is a
conflict between the story of the Hunt
lngton family and the statement Henry's
wife says he made to her, but both agree
that the man was carried away by pas
sion. which unbalanced his mind. The /
condition Of AlOnzo, who was shot in the |
head, anc Elizabeth who was shot in
the region of the heart, is serious tonight. |
AlOnzO, ii is believed will die They are |
being treated in their home Edith, who !
was wounded in the arm, and Douglas, /
whose head was graZed by a bullet are ]
not seriously hurt, and We're able tonight |
TO watch over the mother, who retired to |
bed Frustrated by the horror of the |
events which eliminated in the death of |
her husband.
No direct message from the prisoner /
has come from the Jail except a letter I
sent TO the manager of the hotel where 4
Henry's wife is staying, praying him to |
send information as TO the condition of /
the members of his family
Il beseech you" the prisoner wrote, !
in the name of humanity, TO send me [
news or my wife and those l have wound !
ed in the madness of my despair"
Stories Differ.
HuntingtOn's wife has made public an /
account Of the things she says her hus- /
band told her before he was locked up. /
in which he declared he had lost his |
mead during words with his brothers and /
had fired wildly and recklessly. Young /
Mrs. Huntington asserts that there was /
a complete. rupture between Henry and /
his family on account of the treatment /
or her by his sisters and that Henry /
smarted under the refusal of his family /
to receive her into their home.
Another development tonight was the /
statement made by the hotel manager. !
who claims t. have conversed with /
Henry when the latter visited his wife
lie asserts that Huntington told him that |
mis- brothers had attacked him, Selling |
his beard and thrusting him toward the /
corridor, Whereupon he pulled out his |
revolver and shot them
An examining magistrate began an in |
quiTy today and questioned all concerned 1
but the official finding has not been /
given out.
Quarrel over Will.
1t is stated b. certain friends of Major
that after his quarrel with
Henry he had drawn up a will leaving
alt his property TO his wife and the four
other children, but that in view of his
reconciliation with Henry on Sunday he
tore up this will and made new one i'm
which Henry was given an equal share
with the others
this which led Henry, according to the !
to use his revolver
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