Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-29
BROTHER SHOT FOUR
Shocking Tragedy in Home OF
American Abroad.
SON OF MAI. HUNTINGTON
Attempts to Wipe Out Remainder Of
Family.
WAS UNBALANCED FOR YEARS
Imagined That Proper Attention Was
Not Being Given to His Father,
Who Was Dying.
WAS UNBALANCED FOR YEARS

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, July y9.-The condition of AlonZo
and Edith Huntington. the victims of the
revolver of their brother Henry. is very
grave this morning. Douglas and Eliza
beth Huntington. who received less serious
wounds. are recovering.
Henry Huntington's wife says that he
went to his fathers house yesterday most
unwilingly. Against her lrotestations. he
insisted on taking his revolver with him.
saying that he would be in less danger
with a gang OF Apaches than with his own
brothers we had had several quarrels
with them" said Mrs. Huntington.
After Huntington had left his fathers
house, leaving his brothers and sisters
wounded. he was seized by the porter.
whom he persuaded to accompany him to
see his wife Henry told her that his
bro he had accosted him in terms so vio-
lent that ne had lost his head and fired
haphazard He was about to blow out his
own b~ains when he was dlsarmed. The
prisoner wrote to his wife this morning
asking for news of his father and as to
the condition OF the wounded. His father
is at the point of death.
VERSAILLES July a9.-Gyief and sor-
row reign today in the residence. near Nep-
tune Park. of the stricken Huntington fam
ily, where last night Henry Huntington.
"
ton. shot down two sisters and two brothers
at the moment the members of the family
had gathered around the deathbed of the
father,
Mai Huntington is breathing his last
The condition of Elizabeth and Alonzo
HUNTINGTON is today declared to be desper-
ate. although not hopeless: the wounds in
fiicted upon Edith and Douglas Huntington
are not grave Mrs Huntington. their
mother, is completely Frustrated from
shock and confined to her bed. few
blocks away Henry. who is regarded by
Lis family and friends as demented. is in
iail He Is dazed. and confused. and hardly
realizes the terrible thing he has dona.
A Prominent American.
Maj Huntington is one of the best known
Americans in Paris, and he and his family
have long taken a prominent part In the
social and official gayety OF the French capi-
tai He is a retired army officer. and prior
TO taking up his residence abroad he lived
in Chicago. where he was an associate o.
those prominent in ARMY and business cir
cles. In Paris he became well known for
his after-dinner speeches at the American
Club. of which he was one OF the organ
zers and recently the president Maj.
Huntington and his family always took d
leading part In the social functions at the
American embassy. Several years ago the
family took a fine old residence at Yer
sailes where the major was better able TO
pursue his studies of French art and litera-
ture Maj. Huntington enjoys independent
means With former Ambassador Porter he
compiled a list OF French officers who par
ticipated with Lafayette in the American
revolution. For this he was decorated with
the cross of the Legion of Honor.
Story Of the Shooting.
The Associated Press investigated today
the tragedy of last night. and the following
correct account of the occurrence was OBJ
tanned:
Henry. the youngest son of Maj. Hunting
ton. has been considered unbalanced men
tally for years From his early youth he
has been possessed OF a mania that he had
solved the science of curing disease. and
he was constantly nventing and concOCting
the most preposterous remedies. His
father. finding some years ago that 1t was
impossible to control him, gave him an
allowance and permitted him to go his own
way. Since that time Henry has lived al
ternately in Paris in the department of
Aisne. where some time ago he married the
daughter of a village doctor named Denise.
There enlargement between
Henry and the other members of his family
When he arrived at the family home yes
teTday in response to a message appriStng
him of the gravity of his fathers condition
he strutted into the bedroom of his parent
mumbling something about his father not
receiving proper treatment. 1t was seen
then that he was laborlng under mental eN:
citement. He did not kuecl at the bedside
of his father and ask forgiveness. as has
been reported. but he began iuterrogatins
NAL Huntington. When his father. whose
mind was wandering replied incoherently
Henry turned abruptly 10 the family and
said angrily:
Don't YOU see that you are killing him"
Henry at once became more excited and
continued to speak violently and loudly
-he members of the family gathered
around him and tried to persuade him to &c
into the drawing room and talk the question
ever there. This he would not do. but in
a loud voice he insisted that the only way
to cure. his father was to administer the
Hood Of "A dog mixed with sea water, a
remedy which he had invented. firing OF
his persistence. his brother Douglas finally
opened the door of the bedroom. and said
I am the oldest and ! ask you to leave
and nor ra.Ilrn