Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-30
vlNTON MANS BULLETS KILL
WIFE, HOTEL PROPRIETOR
AND HIMSELF.
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN
HOTEL IN WATERLOO
Thomas Finley Follows Estranseo
Wife to Neishhorins Town, Where
She Had Secured Employment as
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Wounds Woman
and Sends Bullet Thru w. J. ShauiIs.

Waterloo, Oct S0.-While broodins
over repeated failures TO effect recon-
Citation with his wife, Thomas Finley
age %, of vinton, Saturday evening
shot and killed W. J. Shaulis, 81, pro-
pr!etor of the Hotel Brevort; mortaliy
wounded his wife, Mrs. Edith Finley,
age so, and then turned the gun on
himself, dying instantly. Mrs. Finley
died Sunday night.
The shooting took place in the office
Of the Hotel Brevort, East Fifth and
Water streets. Mrs. Finley was shot
twice in the breast, one bullet lodging
in the right lung and the other in the
abdominal cavity near the spine. She
was sent to the Presbyterian hospital
in the police ambulance. Shaulis was
shot thru the right wrist and the
breast, the bullet penetrating the heart.
Finley shot himself thru the head.
The shooting ARRAY came as the
climax to last desperate effort on
the part OF Finley TO persuade his
wife to return TO their home in Vim
ton. When she refused, and announced
her intentions Of appealing to the sher-
ifs office for protection, Finley
whipped out his revolver and started
shooting Shaulis had just finished
calling the police on the phone TO have
Finley elected when he. too, was shot
Believe Act Premeditated.
1t is thought that Finley, who is said
to have been insanely jealous Of his
wife, came to Waterloo early in the day
with fixed idea in his mind 10 get
Shaulis, believing that the latter was
in some manner responsible for his
wife's refusal 10 any longer live %.sa
him. Finley visited the hotel early
end made inquiries for his wife Later
he made three visits to the cafe in
the Brevort block, owned and operated
By Shaulis and in which Mrs. Finley
was employed AS a waitress.
Finley made remark, according 10
George Wilson. g cripple, who conducts
repair shop on the ground floor OF
the building, that he intended to get
Shaulis" Wilson repeated this to
Shaulis. SO ne says. and the latter
laughed, saying they had been trying
for twenty years 20 get me and had al
ways failed"
0SoTJ Ot Iy0
The shooting ARRAY was with essed
by R II. Eaton. night clerk, and Oscar
A. Sohow. chief deputy inspector OF
hotels. Des Moines, who were sitting
IN the lobby when Finley entered and
approached the counter behind which
Shauiis was seated Neither OF these
men recalled any part Of the converse
ton which led up TO the shooting.
Both had their backs to the office par
tition and were unmindfnl OF the trag-
edy that was brewing until The shots
were fired. and Mrs. Finley ran
screaming into the lobby TO be followed
| an instant later by Shaulis and Finley.
The Fgnleys had resided in Vinton a
number Of years. They have one son,
age %. who operates a restaurant
there. Finley was employed as a la
borer
Shaulis was born and reared in Or
ange township and had resided in Wa
terloo about eleven years. He was al
one time engaged in the bus and trans
fer business here. and later al Cedar
Falls. After disposing Of his line he
leased the Hotel Brevort He is sur
y!ved by a wife and eight children:
Gilbert, Walter, Eugene, Josiah and
Cato all Of Waterloo, and Mrs. Carrie
Reinhart. Of Franklin Grove, III, and
Mrs. F. N. Peterson. of Delano, Cal. A
| son. Chester, resides in Dixon, Iii He
also leaves four brothers