Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-30
DIED IN IGNORANCE
Mai. Huntington Never Knew of
Sons Outbreak.
HENRY ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Examining Magistrate Will Not Cues
ton Him Now.
SAYS HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
Wife Sides With Him and Has En-
gagged M. Labori for His Defense.
Wounded Improving.
AVS HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE

VERSAILLES, July 30.-The funeral Of
Mai Henry Alonzo Huntington, who died
at his residence here yesterday unaware
of the murderous attack made Sunday night
by his son Henry upon his two brothers
and two sisters will take place next Thurs
day at the English church. The body will
be placed temporarily in a vault and later
Inferred In some French cemetery. 1t will
not be sent to the United States. Many
messages Of coincidence have been received
by the family from the United States Eng
land and France.
Alonzo Huntington, who was shot through
the lung, is still In precarious condition
The bullet lodged near the heart, and has
not yet been extracted. Edith Huntington's
condition is still serious. but she Is not in
danger. The ball fired by her brother ira
versed both her breasts. 1t was enormously
stated yesterday that Elizabeth had been
shot in the breasts. Elizabeth was shot in
the arm.
Mrs. Huntington. the mother, is still COM
pletely Frustrated.
Henry Huntington was examined by q
doctor today and found talking at random
The examining magistrate, NJ. Hirsch. has
decided to postpone the investigation re-
garding Henrys sanity until after the flu
neral Of his father. The magistrate de-
clined to permit the correspondent of the
Associated Press to see the prisoner today
on the ground that in his present condition
he was not responsible for what he said.
Henry's wife told the correspondent that
she had engaged Maitre Labori, one of the
best known criminal lawyers in Paris to
| defend her husband. She said his defense
would be provocation. and that she was 60
| ing to her summer home to procure certain
| menacing letters written and sent to her
| husband by his two brothers and his sister
Edith.
Mrs. Huntington Talks.
| NJ. Hirsch. the examining magistrate be-
fore whom the Huntington case has been
| brought, decided today that Henry Hunt
ington. who, Sunday night, shot and
| wounded two sisters and two brothers at
the bedside of his dying father, should be
examined to his sanity.
| M Hitsch told the Associated Press
| that the prisoner, who at times was
strangely agitated. told such conflicting
! suffering from neurasthenia. and further
! HuntingtonS wife is similarly affected
| Mrs. Huntington admitted today that her
| husband had twice been under treatment
| for nervous disorders
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 addi-
tional sadness to the shocking tragedy in
| the home of Maj. Henry a. Huntington
| which has caused a sensation In the Ameri-
| can colony and diplomatic circles of France.
Mai Huntington died last evening short
| ly after the news was given out of his
| son Henry's unsuccessful attempt at sui
| eide but the father was spared the anguish
| of knowledge both Of this incident and the
| terrible crime which shattered his house
| hold, as he was unconscious to the end.
The Frustrated wife. his daughter Edith
| and his son Douglas, whose Slight wounds
| permitted them 10 pay the last honors to
the dying man. were present III the cham-
| Der when the end came.
| According to the police, Henry attempted
| suicide In his cell with silk handker-
| chief which he tied round his neck and
| fastened to the bars. seeking to strange
The jailer. who had been instructed to
watch the prisoner closely. detected the
| act in time to prevent serious results. and
| 1t was announced that Henry had not sue
| ceeded In injuring himself.
| Statements Do Not Agree.
| 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
| the mother and children have had time to
| interpret HenVs effort at self-destruction
as additional evidence of the mental ire