The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-26
Mrs. Amesbury, Teacher
in Va. College, Killedon
Christmas Day.
RE EFUSED TO LIVE
WITH HUSBAND
Latter Visits Mothers Home to
Make Final Plea, and Being
Refused, He Opens Fire.
Woman Held in High
est Esteem in
Danville.

special to Tho TImes- Dispatch.
HYDE PARK, MASS December 25.--
live with HIM again, DR.. Walter Ra-
leigh Arnesbury this noon shot her as
she stood in the Kitchen Of ner home
on the third floor at No. go Metro
politan Avenue preparing the Christ
mas dinner. Mrs. Amesbury ran out
of the kitchen and fled downstairs,
dying in the corridor below almost
immediately. Two sons OF the couple
rushed in the kitchen from an adjofn-
Ing room at the sound of the shot. and
threw themselves on the father, knock
Ing him down and wrestling his re-
volver away from him. They held him
until the police came.
DR.. Amesbury has bcen practicing
medicine in Milford, Mass, since last
August. and has been separated from
ls wife for some time. She has been
teaching music In Roanoke College. ut
Danville. Va. and came home to spend
Christmas, arriving at the house last
night. The flat has been occupied by
Mrs. Amesbury's mother Mrs. Jennie
Rees. and Mrs. Amesbury's two sons,
Walter r. Amesbury. Jr.. twenty years
old, and Ira r., seventeen years old.
These We're all in the flat when tho
tragedy came to n climax.
Heard She ,yas Coming.
DR.. Amesbury either came with Mrs.
Amesbury, or else had heard that She
was coming. At any rate he also slept
at the fiat last night. and by his own
statement tonight, came, prepared TO
make the most determined effort to
get his wife to return to him. He
says that he bought the revolver with
which he shot her in Milford yester-
day.
Tonight at the police station. DR..
Amesbury was grief-strcken and re-
morseful, but would say Very little
about the tragedy. Il did not mean
to kill her. said he.
II was lonesome without her. did
not feel that l could 49, - Sle'st her:
And when shs told SsSl
,e get 90 alnatss tSa,s You in the best pgknow ,s
what wi / was aboGdlta oGdltasses .ppret7
Asked why his wife left him orig
inallY, he seemed unable to give n di-s
rect reason. but said vaguely that they
could not seem to get along together.
Amesbury was forty years of age and
a native of Kentucky. Since her mar
riage to DR.. .Nmesbury they lived at
different times in Kingston and Dux-
bury, Mass. and Corsicana. Texas.
Some time ago Mrs. Amesbury Went
to Virginia and began teaching music
in Roanoke College. She was an ac-
conlplished vocalist.
Was Popular In Danyfl,c.
Members of the faculty of Roanoke
College. DanvilIe. were horror
stricken when called up over the
long distance phone by The Times
Dispatch after midnight, and advised
OF the killing OF Mrs. Anlesbury by
her husband. Not a hint of the terrible
tragedy had been received. and the
news caused the deepest grief.
Mrs. Amesbury had only been con-
nected with the college since Septen,
ber. bur in these few months she had
won not only the highest respect. hut
likewise the most affectionate regard
or ali iconnected With tbe institution
she haa n,so hecoma verv non,,,,,.5
fnctor in fhc musical life of panyille.
she was instructor of vocal music In
the college ana was recngnize;, no b,.
mo both 4 sinpe,. ana teaclier or M