The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-13
Horrible Double Tragedy in
Meadow Street Home of
Allen B. Paul
SHOOTING FOLLOWS
ALL NIGHT QUARREL
Unhappy Married Life Leads
Man, Who Had Twice Tried
Suicide, to Attempt Life of
Entire Family.

With simple funeral services over
Il. Paul and her husband. victim and
murderer suicide, Tuesday afternoon.
! the last sad chapter of n marital
alliance whose keynote was tragedy,
/ will be written
1 A brief nine months ago Paul mar
ried Mrs. Lucy Eubank. whose hus-
! band had been killed in a railroad
accident. piedging the same undying
I love for her seven var-oit, cherubic-
faced boy, as he plighted to her. sun
day morning his feeling toward the
child ran down the scale OF senumen-
tally and up the tnnamea heights
OF jealous rage until his hate drove
/ him to the murder OF his wife and
/ his own self destruction.
To-day two underta keTs have the
bodies OF the mother victim and mad
dened step~fathcr, while the home
/ less ana orphan lad. the innocent
cause of "A lCng-expected tragedy. s.
tenderiy cared Tor by frienos. A Wit
ness to the staying OF his mother, and
compelled To flee Tor his own lille.
the boy will have visions the remain
der 81 mis- HE. OF Il shocking Tragedy
/ the meaning Of which ne is yet too
young to understand
/ Tragedy Expected.
Among those who knew Paul and
his wife. 1t was an open secret that
! they were mismated. that the mother
! instinsct was stronger than that of
/ the wife In Mrs. Paul. that she had
money and oftea Haunted her nnan-
cial independence in & her spouse >
face. and that the husband was In
sanely jealous OF the child That
their domestic infelicitia~ were like
/ iy to terminate IN tie death OF one or
ali the members of the little family
at 202 North Meadow street at any
/ hour Of any day, seems to have been
! known among the neighpors~ for
when the temporarily distracted man
rushed at the child with a revolver
i'm his hand. the lad rrn to the home
/ Of family nearby, as he had been
! instructed to do many weeks before.
The infelicities Of the husband and
/ wife began shortly after they were
married, when IL became apparent TO
Paul. TWO years younger than his
/ consort that he would not only have
T to share the warmth OF Eros flames
with the child by former husband.
/ but must he content with secondary
/ consideration at the hand and heart
Their quarrels over the woruans at
! iention Ia the child, and what the
+ husband considered inattention TO
him seemed TO have begun at the
/ breakfast table, continued through
the day and lasted far into the night
Sunday mornings double tragedy
came as the denouement Of a night
( OF horror to the three members OF
/ the family. The mother and husband
/ lay awake excha ging the most soul
/ whitening and pride piquing remarks
| they could command. and the lad
! shuddering IN terror. Neighhors
heard their tragedy portending colo
! quay and felt that "a climax was at
/ hand. but nont had the courage TO
| enter the little house of unhappiness
! TO intervene.
Paul and his wife went tn the base
4 bail game Saturday and appeared to
! be friends, but though they seemed
Z interested In the manoeuyres of the
4 players, the wife was thinking of the
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