Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-28
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NO MOTIVE FOR
HAVRE DOUBLE.
TRAGEDY FOUND
Police Believe Woman In
sane When She Killed
Rector and Herself.
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Both Mrs. Carleton and
Havre Pastor Known in
North Dakota.

Great Falls, Mont, Oct. 28.--
Chief of Police Moran OF Havre
informed the Great Falls Leader
today that there would be an in
quest into the deaths of the Rev.
Leonard Christler and Mrs. Mar
gutf1te Carleton, as he under.
stood the relatives of the dead
woman had demanded 1t and that
United States Senator T. j. Walsh
had been retained as attorney for
Mrs: j. H. Pyle, mother Of Mrs.
Carleton.
Havte, Mont, Oct. 2s.-The Rev.
Leonard Jacob Christler, rector Of ST..
Marks church Of the Incarnation here
and widely known as the Bishop Of
All Outdoors,' and Mrs. Marguirte
Carleton, wife Of a former Montana
district judge, who. were killed yes
terday in the clergyman's home
within a few feet Of tho room where
Mrs. Christler was. were the victims
Of temporary insanity on the part of
%asi alseisi:. carleton in th1 opinion Of local
No Inquest Necessary.
so sure are the officials that the
deaths represent a murder and suicide
that Coroner John Holland and the
sheriff's Office last night announced no
inquest" would be held unless relatives
Of tho dead man or woman insist on
one.
The theory of the officers received
confirmation from DR.. D. s. Mac
kenzie, who was called by Mrs. Christ
Ter, Immediately after the shooting.
DR.. Mackenzie said that when he ar
rived at the Christler home, the pistol
with which the two had been shot
was still grasped in Mrs, Carleton's
hand and her finger still was on the
trigger. .,y,., 9-l.,
:,.@ - Find Letters. .,s,;fje, s.ei,.>.s =:
In. III unsuccessful effort to-, ,estab-
l!sh a motive for the shooting, officers
yesterday partially reconstructed a
number: OF letters found in partially
destroyed condition in the room Mrs
Carleton had occupied IN a local hotel
They declared they could find no
mention Of the dead Clergyman in
these lttters, which came from Mrs
Carleton's mother, daughter and hus.
band, former Judge. Frank Carleton
from, VIII ON DirE was Separated, One
letter from the husband, officers said
mentioned he, was sending her a sun,
Of money. Il 3a&
Mrs. Ghristler. describing the shoot.
ing, said that Mrs. Carleton came tc
tho Christler home late Thursday
night and remained until early Friday
morning talking to the Rev. and Mrs
Ckristler. When she started to leave
the clergyman accompanied her to.
ward the entrance, the widow said
and had just shut door between q
small hall and the room where Mrs
Christler was left, when two shots
rang out. Mrs. Christler opened the
door and found the bodies. that oi
Mrs: Carleton being on, top of the
minister's body.
p 81 sProminent People.
All Of the principals in the TRACED,
were prominent, both in Montana ant
elsewhere. The Rev. Christler, who
was 46 years old, had held, charges II
New York and New Jersey. He came
to Montana in 1910 as missionary o.
the Milk River valley and had de-
veloped his field into one of the larg
est mission territories In the United
States. ~, -.sl
Mrs. Christler is the daughter Of
the late David Wadsworth, Auburn
N. z, manufacturer.