Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-17
HORRIBLE DOUBLE Crime
Committed SUNDAY A. N.
MURDERS GRACE THEN CUTS OWN THRoAT-MAN
AND WOMAN FEW
YEARs-RooM IN WHICH CRIME WAS COMMITTED PRESENTED
SIGHT.

On of the most horrible tragedies
in the history of Bismarck occurred
Monday morning at little after one
o'clock when two denizens of the I'M
der world gave up their lives on the
alter of passion and booze when Ole
Ouamme, aged %, murdered Grace
Fox, aged 25, by cutting her throat
with razor. and then calmly walked
in front of mirror seized another
razor and cut fatal cash in his
own throat. Briefly, the above is the
story of the crime in the Jungles.
1t appears from the evidence gath
cred at the inquest and from friends
of the two victims that the couple
had been for the past ten weeks oc'
cupying a house on the flats, which
had formerly been operated as baw-
DIV by Margaret Sullivan. The man
and woman had been living together
for some time before they moved to
the house in which the crime was
committed and had been forced to
move from the 500 hotel, where. they
were for some time. It appears that
the man had secured knowledge from
made up her mind to throw him over
and he was brooding over the ap-
preaching separation. Sunday night
there was a dispute over the prepar-
alton of the evening meal and this
lead to harsh words and Quamme lett
for uptown where he remained for
some time and took aboard consider
able liquor and, according to the testi-
mony of Bessie Davis, who was also
living in the house, he was in an
agry mood when he returned home.
He Immediately started to quarrel
with the Fox woman and She evil
IDENTIFY fearing trouble, motioned to
the Davis woman to go to neighbor-
ing house for help. The Davis wo-
man left the house, and as she went
out of the door Quamme siezed the
Fox woman and threw her upon the
bed. The party whom Bessie Davis
summoned went to the room where
the two had been left and found them
both with their threats cut from ear
to ear and they were dead when he
reached the house. 1t was evident
from the position Of the bodies that
Quamme had held the Fox woman on
the bed and deliberately cut her
throat. The razor with which he
committed the deed was forced SO
deep into the woman's neck that a
niche was broken out of the blade
by coming in contact with the verte-
bra, in fact the head was nearly sew
from the body. He evidently then
cred from the body. He evidently
then removed his coat, which was
covered with blood, and turning to
the mirror picked up another razor
and cut his own throat, making
horrible cash from ear to ear. He
then partly turned and fell onto the
bed beside the woman he had but
an instant before killed in cold blood.
AS soon as the bodies were discov-
cred by the parite who had been sum-
moned to the house telephone call
was sent to the police station and
DR.. Fisher was called and he, with
Policemen Martineson and Ely went
to the scene of the crime and sum-
moned Coroner Fields, who immedi-
ately took charge of the premises. It
is stated by those who were present
soon after the murder and suicide
that the room looked like a slaughter
house, as the blood from the man had
spattered over the furniture and bed
clothes and the woman was lying in
q large pool of blood on the bed.