Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-07-02
.QUAYLE SHOOTS .WIfE|REGlSTERING WOMEN
Would BE Slayer Then Places Pistol
ITO His Head and Sends Two Bull
lets Into His Brain, Causing Death

Ito HIS HEAD ana SennS Two bul
lets Into His Brain, Causing Deatl
Residents Of the city residing neal
the Alexandria Hospital, On Wolfe
between Royal and Pitt streets, were
startled this morning at quarter tt
seven o'clock by the reports OF foul
Ssor FIVE revolver shots which fol
lowed in rapid succession. An in
yestigation revealed the fact tina,
Charles E. Quayle, of 535 South
Lee street, had shot his wife, Clara
and then taken his own life by shoot
ing himself twice, once through the
mouth and also through his temple
Quayle apparently fred three shots
st his wife. One of them lodged in
her abdomen, Il second passed
through her side and third took
ksffect in her arm. The latter bullet
was found and taken ont after her
removal to the Alexandria Hospital,
10y Dr.. S. B. Moore.
& Quayle's body was removed to
Wheatley's undertaking rooms.
Story of .he Shooting, :. ).
According 20 the story of the
shooting, given by those who are
said to have witnessed it, it is
claimed that Quayle met his wife in
Front Of the east end Of the hos
pital and started a violent argu-
1nent with her, during which she re-
peatedly asked him to let her alone.
SQuayle did not. however, and just
as his wife started running down
the block towards Royal street he
opened fire on her, chasing her into
the store owned by NJ Fagelson ,at
the corner of Wolfe and Royal,
where she screamed Help! Help"
and Immediately ran out of the door
on the Royal street side.
Her husband then turne& the re-
Rolver on himself and blew out his
brains. He fell to the sidewalk on
Royal street.
SaDr. T. Marshall Jones was sum-
lnoned for the woman, and she was
assisted by people in the neighbor-
hood 10 the AleMendnin% Hospital.
1.-THE shooting naturally caused
much excitement, In less time than
it takes to tell it people were rum
ming to the scene from all around
and large crowd gathered in front
of the hospital.
Mrs. Quayle is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Dixon, Of 2l5 north
Fairfax street. About five years
ago she married Quayle, but their
marital life had not been harmonious.
Ills wife returned to her fathers
house, and Quayle lived at the fam
lily home a: 53: south Lee street.
About year ago, It will be remem-
fbered. Quayle attacked Dixon, his
father-in-law, at the latter's resi-
,dence on north Royal 3, street, and
was fined S25 in the Police Court.
Z Quayle has for sometime been very
jealous of his wife, it is said, and,
according to reports, had threatened
her with bodily injury. They had one
child, little girl four years old,
which, with the mother, resides at
2l5 north Fairfax street, with Mrs.
,Quayle's parents. For some time past
Mrs. Quayle has been employed at
the Klots Silk Mill and was on her
way to the mill when the tragedy
occurred. Mrs. Quayae is about 19
years old. 1t is said she has fight
ing: chance for recovery.
sQuayle, in 1892, when a boy, lost
one Of his legs by being run over by
an electric car on south Fairfax
etreet. He, had been employed at the
Deane shipyard, and was about 35
years old
Inquest Tonight
4 DR.. T. NJ. Jones, city coroner, will
hold an inquest over the remains of
Quayle at s o'clock this evening at
Wheatley's undertaking parlors, for
which he has summoned the follow
ing named jurors! John NJ. Reed, P.
M. Bradshaw, Frank w. Latham,
Jerome Kaufman, Harvey E. Gentry
and Thomas H. Henshaw.
4 The following named persons, who
are said to have witnessed the shoot
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