Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-20
Prominent Merchant and Church
Worker Kills Wife He Wed
For Sympathy.
IN LOVE WITH DIV0RCEE.
He Met Her on Train and Soon
Learned That Cupid Had Wrecked
His IIomc--lricd 10 Hide Crime.

Milwaukee,. March 20.-George
Willoughby. manager Of the Jewett
* sherman company, coffee and spice
mills, early today shot and killed his
wife at their home on Prospect aven-
ne, Willoughby then shot himself
and is not expected TO recover.
He confessed to the police that he
had committed the murder because he
was infatuated with another woman
whom he had been supporting for
four years
Mr.. and Mrs. Willouehby last even
ing had attended social AT the Park
place Methodist Episcopal church,
where both were prominent workers.
Nh Willoughby also taught Sunday
school class.
After the social they visited his
brother Leroy Willoughby and then
returned home. There quarrel
arose, after which both retired. While
Mrs Willoushby was asleep. he
chloroformed her ana tnen shot her
behind the left ear, causing instant
death.
TRIED 70 HIDE CRIME.
After shooting himself Willoughby
dragged himself down stairs to the
basement, opened the side door so as
tn make it appear that burglars had
committed the deed hid the revolver
in the wall of the basement and then
telephoned Tor doctor. When the
police We're notified they were in
formed that a burglar had Shot both
Mr. and Mrs Willoughhy. but when
the officers arrived they at once con-
cluded that it was murder and at
tempted suicide and later obtained a
confession from Willoughby.
Willoughby made the confession
while he lay in bed and in the pres
cncc Of DIR. Charles II. Lemon and
Detective Dennis Sullivan and a nurse.
At first he denied he had shot his
Wife, but when the police showed him
that the burglar theory was impos-
sble. he confessed.
Il married my wife 20 years ago.
said Willoughby. Il did not love her.
but married her mostly out Of SYM
pathy, she being poor woman. Our
life has never been a happy one.
we frequently quarreled. Mrs. VIII
loughby was insanely jealous of me.
MET THE WOMAN.
Matters went on this way for years.
-Four years ago while l was ON my
way to New York j met a woman on
the train. Our acquaintance ripened
into love. Then for the first time. [
realized l had met a woman / truly
loved
This woman was also unhappy. Her
husband was cruel TO her and soon
after / met her he deserted her and
her two step-children. l then began
10 support her we became intimate
and have been so for several years.
Two years ago she obtained a divorce
and since that time have been pro-
viding for her and her children. She
is now living in Chicago.
PLANNED FOR MONTHS.
My domestic affairs did not improve
and a long time ago 1 decided that
l would end IT all How to do il was
what bothered me and for many
months / have been planning way.
j began to collect chloroform. / bought
Il in small lots aud began to keep II
until l had bottle OF the drug. This
l saved until l might decide to carry
out my plans
II decided to end it all this morning.
After my Wife had rullen asleep, / OBJ
tanned the chloroform and then l shot
her. then fired the shots into my
breast, intending to shoot myself in
the heart, but failed. / did not have
any more cartridges, so / decided TO
hide the revolver This Is the whole
story"
Wllloughby is so years old. His wife |
was three years his Junior.