Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-01-08
EDEY COMEDY ENDS IN TRAGEDY
Millionaire Who Married 'The Fisher
Maid of AmityVilIe."


finger of Fate, and what neighbors
term retribution, wrote a new and
blood-stained chapter in the history
OF the alleged unhappiness of Henry
G. Edey, the wealthy retired Wall
street broker, AID his wife, "the
| beautiful fishing girl of Amityville,"
to-day, when Edey shot his wife to
death, and then turned the smoking
gun on himself and blew out his own
| brains.
The murder and suicide occurred
in the bedroom OF Edeys palatial
| home on Great South Bay. Those
who reached the room first found
! Mrs. Edey lying in the doorway,
where she had fallen in her vain
flight to escape from the bullet that
her husband sent crashing after her.
Nearby, Edey lay dying from a
! bullet from the same gun, which he
| turned on himself only after he had
| made sure that he had wiped out his
| revenge in the stain Of his own wife's
blood.
Servants and neighbors who reach
ed the scene could not help acknowl-
edging that the double tragedy had
been we'll planned, because Edey's
last act had been sure that his wife
was dead and that the bullet he was
to fire into his brain would leave no
possibility Of recovery. Efforts to
saw Edey's life proved futile.
Story of Tragedy.
The story Of the tragedy that Is
| said to have haunted the lives Of the
millionaire and his beautiful wife
could form the plot of the most dra-
matte novel. The wedding of the
rich broker and the daughter OF the
fisherman, after Edey had been di-
vorced In 1897 from Mrs. Lottie
Carlton Edey, the sensational re-
ports Of how the young Amityville
] beauty, soon after her marriage, had
quickly quit her husbands palace to
elope with his liveryman, the be-
lieved gossip that Edey lad taken
the wife of his liyeryman for his
compensation, and the announcement
Of the reconciliation Of all parties,
have formed chapter after chapter
for the dealers in polite scandal, until
to-day's finis was written in the
blood Of the two principal characters.
| Henry Edey first came into promi-
nence for his fondness for fishing.
He came into social notoriety by his
divorce In 1897 from his first wife,
Mrs. Lottie Carlton Edey.
| Even while the divorce proceed
ings were on, it was limited that
Edey had found and loved q girl
along the shores Of Great South Bay.
She was said to be the daughter of
fisherman and possessed the fatal
gift Of beauty"
Shortly afterward the marriage
| was announced OF Edey and Miss
Katherine Liebeno,-, the daughter of
the Amityville fisherman. Edey
brought his bride to one Of the most
wonderfully built homes along the
bay, and the only stories told were
Of the happiness Of the two.
Living as servants in the Edey
palace were Gardner Murdock, a liv-
eryman and his wife, and fate de-
| creed that its web of destiny should
be woven around this liveryman,
| woven until it should enmesh the
| beautiful fishing-girl wife, as we'll as
| her husband, and could only be bro
| ken by bullets that were to claim
the lives of the two whom Great
South Bay greeted as "the happiest
ot couples"
All went we'll in the Edey palace
until last august, when village gos-
sips were thrown into frenzied hap
piness by the statement that Mrs.
Edey had quietly left her home.
Gardner Murdoch also was gone
A few days later Mrs. Edey re-
turned and stated that she had mere
ly taken a trip to see friends. She
| did not account for the disappear
ance Of Murdoch, who also returned
| about the same time Mrs. Edey came
back.
| Hardly had tho echoes OF these
rumors died away, when villagers
learned that Mrs. Edey was fond Of
horses. Edey bought her a hand
some pony.
He also bought Murdock a horse
! and asked him to teach Mrs. Edey
how to become an expert horsewo-
man.