The Detroit times., 1910-02-05
|ETRGFFER KILLS
ACTREss AND SELF
WI I. Fisher Commits Rash Act in
APARTMENT House in New York
No Reason Known.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Wm. T..
I.hsr formerly acting superintendent
the Jefferson-as poktOfice sub
nation In Detroit, and Ethel Bernard
rs actress, were found dying In az
.Dartment house on West Ninety
..hthBt. yesterday afternoon. No rea'
|1n Is known for the tragedy The
.t,Ice say young Fisher shot the wo-
hail and then himself. Fisher was 80
1870 old and Miss Bernard was about
I8 Their maid was climbing the
./&Ira when she heard pistol shots.
.|'ss Bernard staggered into the hall
&1v and fell TO the floor. Fisher was
'1nnd In the apartment. The couple
#ore taken TO a hospital, Where lney
Med soon afterward.
Fisher was lying on the bed IN the
hack room He had shot himself 10
/he right temple and IL was evident
Hal he was dying The police, sum-
noned By the maid, called an am
balance and the man and girl were
Iurried TO the surgeons.
Five minutes after she was carried
into the hospital the girl died. Fisher
&A6 fred a bullet into her brain, the
<4Il entering her left temple. F1she'
.Ied at o'clock, an hour amer tne
ambulance surgeon had made second
Iftp to the Ninety-eighth-st. house.
There was nothing in the fat or IN
Ihe pockets of the man or girl 10 eA
IIoin the cause OF the murder anu
1Iicfde. The maid said they had been
lnnrreling. In memorandum DOCK
belonging to Fisher was this note:
rPlease notify James w. Fisher, Dc
ttoIt. Mich, In case OF accident TO me-
WIN. T. Fisher"
James Kline, 201 East Ninety-sixth-
1t.. a friend OF Fisher, called at the
|<0est One Hundredth-st. station and
told the police that Fisher had been
Is bookkeeper for Houghton. Minlin &
Fisher was son Of James w. Fish
|nr. OF No. SO Eleventh-st., a deputy
|rollector in the customs office at the
|fOoi OF Woodward-ave. The young
IMAM Ieft, Detroit in 1898, and has not
been seen in the city since that time.
The son was particularly wei
brought up, and the tragedy Is
'severe blow to his father. The young
man attended public school in Detroit.
land was graduated from the high
|tchooI at the age OF IS. He attended
ma Detroit College for a year. and
|ihen entered the postoffice. Here his
|IIse was rapid, and in three years he
became assistant superintendent OF the
|IelPerson-aye., sub-station.
THAT is where he went bad said
|hir father, bitterly. HE got to run
|ning 10 the saloons In that vicinity,
and then started attending cheap
dances. Often he stayed out all night
and slept In the office. He neglected
Ma work to such an extent that he
MAS forced to resign, and then his fan
MAS rapid
Fisher later became soldier and
8erved two terms in the Philippines.
He also served through the Spanish
american war with the Fifteenth In
tantry.
Fishers father knows no more Of
The crime than the press dispatches
tell. He left for New York at noon
Saturday. -. 49, o. - -.-- s.. -
II cannot tell what will do with
The body" he said. IF after reaching
New York learn that the details OF
the AFFAIR are as given in the. papers
i will not bring the body to Detroit,
but viii bury It in New York"
Fishers mother died more than 20
years ago. His father remarked and
~ his second wife has-two children.