The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-12
EAST ORANGE BELLE SLAIN
BY LOVER IN MINING DIVE
Mrs. John Byron Harrison, Wife
of Bloomfield Man, Shot with
Babe in Arms.
SLAYER H. M'CAUSLAND,
WEALTHY PHILADELPHIAN
jealous Suitor Then Kills Him
self-Tragedy Recalls Sem
satiOnal ElOpement.

The beautiful young woman who was
shot and killed in Reno. New, and who
was believed in the East to have been
Nan Patterson, who was tried for the
murder Of Caesar Young, was Mrs. Nan
Harrison, wife of the wealthy John
Byron Harrison, of 30 Beach street.
Bloomfield, and daughter of the wealthy
and retired John Mitchell, of 30 North
Clinton street, East Orange.
She wns shot and killed while she
held her 4-year-Old daughter I'm her arms
in 'The Tiger" music hall In the mining
camp at Reno by Harry McCausland, a
rich tobacco broker. of San Francisco,
who comes from weIl-knOwn and
socially prominent Philadelphia family.
Mrs. Harrison had been in Reno for
the purpose of obtaining a divorce so
that she could marry McCausland, who
was insanely jealous of her. After he
had killed her he penned a note to the
young woman's mother and then shot
| and killed himself.
The tragedy was led up to by a se-
ries of exciting incidents dating back
to the time when young Jack" Harri-
son and the charming 1S-yeor-old Nan
of North Jersey by eloping ten years
ago.
Nan Mitchell, whose father was rated
at nearly a million, was looked upon
as one of the prettiest girls in the Or
anges. She had a remarkable voice
and sang in the church choir. She had
hosts upon hosts of friends, and be-
sides being pretty of face and figure,
oh hoI oft i've
made he a reigning social favorite.
She and Jack Harrison were school,
day sweethearts, and it was freely pre-
dicted that some day, when they were
older they would be married. But
one dark and rainy night, ten years
ago, Miss Nan left her home, apparent
ly to mail a letter Harrison met her
with a carriage around the corner
and they eloped and were wed.
EIopement Was Forgiven.
Forgiveness was given by John
Mitchell, one of the three survivors of
the famous old Deering Battery, which
served tour years under General Lee
in the Confederate Army, and by
Charles F. Harrison, the wealthy
father of the bridegroom, and the young
couple went to live with the parents
of Harrison.
Soon the young couple commenced
cutting very wide social swath. Young
Harrison spent a fortune on his whims.
He bought fancy horses and brought
broncos from the West. His tastes
were different from those of his wife.
She preferred the refined society in
which she had been raised and con-
fined herself to society functions and
h. Of he
whom she had known since childhood.
1t was commonly reported that the
young man had in seven years dissi-
pated large part of the fortune Of his
rich father. but recently it was said
that Mr. Harrison. sr.. was as wealthy
as ever: that he had recouped any
caused by his son.
Three years ago Harrison and his
eloping bride parted. In her petition
for a divorce in Nevada Mrs. Harrison
alleges that he deserted her.
Mrs Harrison, endowed with mag
voice, refused to live on the
bounty of her parents. and decided to
go on the stage. For a season or two
she was singing with New York opera
under the name of Nan
A year ago she went to
San Francisco, where she was engaged
with a theatrical company, and it was
there that she met Harry McCausland.
McCausIand Wiled Her Away.
1t was McCausland. so the dispatches
say that induced her to go to Reno to
establish residence so that she could
sue Harrison for a divorce and marry
him She went to Reno four months
ago, and while there she accepted an
- eli, IN nrf huH
known as ''The Tiger"
Two months ago Mrs. Harrison came
to East Orange to visit her father and