The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-03-09
B|GAMIST KILLS
SELF AND WOMAN
He DECEIVED
Shocking Tragedy in New York
Hotel Cafe
WOMAN SHOT TWICE
Police Have Theory That Couple had
Entered Into Suicide
Agreement

New York, March "a man Of mid
die age and a young women entered
the Lenox Hotel, 1l5th Street and
Lenox Avenue about o'clock yester-
day afternoon, and assembled to a
small room on the second floor where
drinks are served from the barroom
below. Nellie Hill, a waitress, sery-
ed the drinks, and three-quarters of
an hour later in answer to ring,
took the orders for another drink.
She had scarcely got out of the
room, when she heard the reports of
three pistol shots and series of
screams. The girl ran back to the
room, and caught in her arms the
young woman, who staggered into the
hall screaming Her clothing was on
fire from the flame of a revolver, and
there were two wounds, one just
above, the other below her heart She
collapsed in the waitress arms, and
when the latter lowered her to the
floor she was dead.
The screams Of the wounded woman
and the waitress brought employees Of
the place as we'll as Policemen Bell
and McKiernan of the East l26th
Street station and Kenna OF the West
125th Street station. They ran into
the room where they found the man
lying dead on the floor, bullet
wound in his right temple The
mans right hand had been caught be-
meath his body in the fall. and his left
arm was folded over his chest A re-
volyer lay on the floor a short dis
lance from him.
Coroner Holtzhauser and Detective
Flynn were summoned to the place,
and in the mans pocket the Coroner
found a card, evidently newly written
in lead pencil bearing the words
Mr.. and Mrs Hall. as West l36th
Street" The Coroner and detective
began an investigation then that con.
vinced them. some hours afterward
that the man, bigamist, had slain
the woman he had deceived and then
killed himself or the two had fulfilled
a suicide agreement.
At the l36th Street address De
tective Flynn found Mr. and Mrs
Joseph Schwartz. Mrs. Schwartz
accompanied the detective to the no
tel and identified the body Of the mar
as that OF William Hall, an auditor II
the freight department OF the iii
nois Central Railroad. who she said
had married her daughter Belle fy,
years ago when the girl was only 10
Mrs. Schwartz said that they hal
been out together in the afternoon
and the elderly woman was told thei
that her daughter had been iniure
and was In a hospital. The fact tina
the girl was dead was kept from hei
From Mrs Schwartz Coroner Holti
hauser learned the name and address
OF Halls parents Mr. and Mrs. job
Albert Hall Of 7S4 Elton Avenue. IN
Bronx, and 1t was from them that Oh
Coroner heard that Hall had been
bigamlst He was a years old. an
was the only surviving child Of IN
Halls, they said, and until Thursda
they had not seen him for SIS years.
According TO the father Han,
1898, married Nellie Dowdell. or Sc
lie Mcintyre, she having assumed th
name OF DoWdell when adopted by
ohildless woman after the death
both her own parents. The marriag
had been disploasing to him and nj
wife, said Hall. because Miss Dowde
was a Catholic and to marry her Ha
forsworc his Protestant faith The
became reconcilcd to the union att,
two children were born, however an
the eldest boy was named John Albo
after his grandfather.
After a few years the marrlai
proved an unhappy one, however. NJ
Hall said, and the son left his wi
and children, working in turn for d
ferent railroads having termlna
here and finally going to the Tlllno
Central, with headquarters in Chical
where he made his home.
That he had married a second lin
before his departure for Chicago W
unknown to his parents, although CC
oner Holtzhauser learned that HI
and Miss schwartE were married