Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY
CEDAR RAPIDS SCENE OF DOUBLE
SHOOTING AFFRAY As VET
UNEXPLAINED.
MIKE GoRskY DEAD.
WOMAN HAS THREE WOUNDS
Quarrel or Third Person May Have
Attacked Gorsky and Wounded
Woman Acknowledging Due
to Illicit Love Affair.

Cedar Rapids, June 4.-As result
OF u shooting affair on Oak Hill last
evening, shortly before o'clock, Mike
Gorsky is dead and Bertha Kuhn
Montgomery Wright is lying perhaps
fatally injured in st. Lukes hospital
with three bullet wounds in her body.
Gorsky died as the result of four
bullet wounds, one just under his
heart and the other three in triangle
shape in his abdomen. His death oc-
Cured about an hour after the trag
edy.
Out of the affair there may develop
the mystery Of the year in Cedar
Rapids. for the police have only one
gun, a five-shot, thirty caliber revolv-
er with two cartridges that have not
been discharged. 1t is difficult for
anyone to subtract seven from five and
still leave two.
The shooting took place as the re-
suit of love affair between Mrs.
Wright and Gorsky. The love affair
was unknown to the husband, Jake
Wright. He states that so far as he
knows. Gorsky had never been to the
house and that he had never seen the
man.
But a picture taken Of Mrs Wright
and Gorsky goes to disprove any
statement that they were not acquaint-
ed and that Mrs. Wright was shot by
a man unknown to her.
Who Fired Shots?
The police were at first satisfied
that the affair was one between Mrs.
Wright and Gorsky, that he shot her
twice and then turned the gun on
himself But after an investigation
when it was found that there were
three bullet wounds on the woman
ard four on the man, they commences
to investigate still further The WOUNDS
in the woman consisted Of one in the
chin. This one passed thru and out
lust at the nape of the neck. Another
entered the right shoulder and LODGED
under the skin after passing thru the
body. Another entered near the spine
from the back and passed out thru the
abdomen.
II would have been almost impos-
sible for Gorsky to fire these three
shots. He might have fired the four
into his own body, but 1t hardly seems
reasonable that he did.
May Have Been Duel.
Mrs. Wright and Gorsky either
had a duel with revolvers or else there
was another man in the house "ho
opened fire after Gorsky DID and tne
bullet wound in the neck OF Mrs.
| Wright vas due to the poor marks
| manship Of the third person,
The theory advanced in support OF
this latter idea is that Mrs. Wnght
had another gentleman friend in the
house at the time Gorsky called; that
she had him concealed in room anu
that Gorsky insisted on coming IN
They perhaps quarreled and GorshS
was ordered out of the house; thas
he opened fire; that the third person
came out and returned the compll-
lnent: that while the two men touSht
over the woman one Of the bullets
struck her in the back.
Another Theory.
Another theory is that Mrs. Wright
and Gorsky quarreled; that When ne
pulled his gun Mrs. Wright also haV-
ing one, opened fire; that she was
able to shoot the fastest and that
accounts for the four wounds III
Gorsky to only three in her person.
Last night the police made trip 10
the house on Oak avenue and MADE
thorough search for a second gun.
The police are inclined to support the
story that Gorsky and Mrs Wright
fought the battle out alone and that
there was not a third person In the
deal.
The wrghts live at s27 Oak ave-
nue. The house they live In IS
rather small one with only few
planks for a front porch. 1t was
crumpled up on this that the ponce
found Gorsky when they arrived. Mrs.
Gorsky was in the house propped up
in the bed.
Mr.. Wright Interviewed.
Mr.. Jacob Wright, husband OF the
wounded woman, was at st. Luxe
hospital last evening and in an In
terview was reluctant in giving out
his version of the affair.
He said, Il am employed by MI.
Harvey Davis as a laborer in HAYS
addition. About 5:45 l started toward
my home with my horse and wagon
with a load Of dirt On my way home
T met a man by the name Of Maxky
employed by Mr.. Davis, who informed
me that he had bad news for me.
II asked him what it was, and he
| said that my wife had been shot by
| an unknown man. liHIlleuldlciS hoi
ried to my home.
/ LAS neared the house large crowd
of people were gathered in front. On
entering the house I found my wife
on the bed gasping for breath. I asked
her what had happened. She said 81
have been shot" I asked her who shot
her. In reply she said, II don't know"
On further inquiry found out that she
did not know anything about the man
or could not give his name.
when 1 entered the house the Of
ficials had taken the mans body to the
hospital. did not see the man and
from his description never heard Of
him"
Had Quarrel Last Fall.
Mr.. Wright on being asked If he had
any trouble with his wife, he said:
Last fall in October some time. I do
not know the exact date, my wife said
she was going to Kansas City on a
visit. I had some doubts, in my mind
that 1t was a visit and we quarreled a
little over it.
"She went to Kansas City and later
to Ottumwa and stayed altogether, two
weeks. On her return home we got
along together and nothing was said
in regard to her trip. Ever since we
have been very much interested In our
own welfare and were planning on