The Washington times., 1922-04-16
CRAZED MAN Kill Is TER SHOOTING SWEE IEEAR

Wood died without regaining con
sclousness, and Miss Powell,
physicians at Emergency say. has d
bare chance to live.
That Woods act was deliberatf
one is shown by the fact that he ief'
two notes. Neither of them con
tennplated, however. that he would
shoot the girl that had rejected him,
but both contemplated his own
death.
The first note was dated April A..
and addressed to Miss Powell. IL
read:
Dear Elsies-I'll never see you
again. / am tired of lifee. l don't
see anything to live for. l can't
stand your coldness. God bless you
little girl. Love and goodbye.
Signed CLARENCE.
These letters were found In his
pocket. ~
At the time that Wood penned this
note to his sweetheart he had de-
stroyed all of his former love let
ters and pictures that he had of her
This fact was learned last night
from his sister-in-law. Mrs. Samuel
Wood. with whom he lived at the
Virginia avenue address.
According to Mrs. Wood, her
brother-in-law had told them about
ten days ago, that he had been re-
fused for the last time by Elsie.
and that he was destroying her love
letters to him and the pictures that
she had given him.
The motive of ending his life, Mrs.
Wood stated, did not occur to them,
and they merely thought that he was
going to forget the girl that ne had
wooed 30 ardently Tor five years.
gs Wrote TO Mother.
The note to Elsie, found in the
dead mans pocket by the physicians
At Camp Humphries who endeavored
TO save his life. had a notation writ
ten on the outside OF the envelope,
dated April l2:
IT tread; Please hotify Elsie and
my dear mother. Mrs. George M,
Wood"
A second note was found in the
dead mans pocket. addressed to his
mother. This note was dated
April 10:
''Dear Mother:-1 am tired of
Iife, so tired i can't live, SO j am
going 10 leave you. i hope you
can live on what l. have. Tell
Harry (Wood's younger brother) to
he good TO you. i am so glad he
Is happy. 1 tried to be so, though
I can't. cannot see anything in
this world for me but sadness.
God bless you, dearest of moth
ers. and help you TO find something
to live for. i can't.
God bless YOU, / am,
Your sad boy,
"CLARENCE.'
driving so far into Virginia is not
known. The police believe that he
possibly thought of taking the girl
he hoped to marry away. Beneath
the seat of his automobile was
lunch, sufficient for two people for
a couple of days, including a pecan
cake, carefully wrapped In tisue
paper.
The wrapping OF the cake bears
evidence that IL must have been a
home-haked one as IL did not bear
any evidence of having come from
q bakers shop.
The gun with which the shooting
was done, found clutched in the
dead mans hand, was a new pearl
handled revolver and il is belisvsd
that he purchased the gun only
lately and for the purpose IN which II
was used.
Wood was employed by the Penn
sylvania roilroad as a car inspector.
Miss Powell was the sister OF Mrs.
Julia Haig, Of this city, and a sister
of s, p. Powell, Commonwealth at
tornsy at spotssylvania, Va, and had
been employed in the Veterans Bu-
fns. 10
which she had worked in various
other Government departments
here. She was educated in the pub
lie schools and took a business
course at Strayer's College.
According TO Mrs. Samuel Wood,
the sister-in-law, with whom the dead
man lived, he had been engaged to
Miss Powell for some time, and the
engagement had been broken.
Friends of the couple, IL was stat
cd, were instrumental in re-uniting
them. only to have the engagement
broken again.
Mrs. Haig, sister of Miss Powell,
stated that her sister had told Wood
a Tong time ago that she was
through with him"
IT don't understand why my sis
ter went out with Wood yesterday
hApsrnoOn, unless " was TO tell MIN
for once and all that she was done
with him and didn't want to see him
again." the sister said.
Had Fear Of Wood.
According to Private Gray, who
brought the wounded girl to Wash
ington, she mentioned something
about being afraid not to go with
Wood, 'for fear that he might do
something IL she did not go out with
him yesterday afternoon, AS he
asked"
The wounded woman refused to
let Cray stop in Alexandria for surg
ical treatment. she said she wanted
to go to the Emergency Hospital,
and urged me to drive as fast as 1
could, which / did"
At Police Headquarters a purse
was made up for Gray for his ef-
forts TO save the girls life in rush
ing her TO the Emergency Hospital.
George E. Hamilton, Jr.,
Will Wed Omaha Girl
The engagement of George e.