Evening star., 1925-11-04
EX-D|P[OMAT KILLS:
SELF, SHOOTS WIFE.
S. T. Wing Locks Victim in
Room-Fires on Her
Father From Window.
BY the Associated Press.


COLUMBUS. Ohio, November A.
Shirley T. Wing. former Rhodes
scholar and at one time attache or
the American embassy in Paris, shot
and wounded his wife. Mrs. Marjorie
Meeker Wing. and her father. Claude
Meeker, Columbus broker, and then
killed himself in the Wing home in
Worthington near here last night.
Mrs. Wing. locked in a room with
her husban nd. pleaded for an hour
for her life, the shooting apparently
having been precipitated by the
arrival OF her father, who deman nded
admittance.
Mrs. Wing. known as a writer OF
prose and poetry, and her father are
in a Columbus hospital, each with
bullet wounds in the thigh. Wing,
who had been separated from his wife
for four months, died almost in
stantly, with a bullet in his heart.
Mrs. Wings mother declared that the
tragedy was due to Wings mental
condition. She asserted he had been
nervous and distraught.
1T was not entirely unexpected,
she said last night.
Mrs. Wing told her mother and
officials her husband came to the
home at pm. to see their IL
month-old daughter. She said he
Immediately entered her room, locked
the door. put the key in his pocket
and declared he was going TO kill her.
Shoots Father From Window.
AT 6 O'Clock Mr. and Mrs. Meeker
arrived TO take their daughter to
dinner While Mrs. Meeker waited
in their automobile, Mr.. Meeker went
into the house He said his daugh
ter called to him that she was locked
n her room with her husband.
Mr.. Meeker dema anded admittance.
when Wing reached out through
window and fred two shots at him,
one lodging in the fieshy part OF
his right thigh. Neither Mr.. Meeker
nor his daughter are injured seri-
ously
Making his way back to his auto
mobile. Mr.. Meeker was rushed to
Worthington. where he received first
aid. In the meantime maid in the
Wing home had notified Worthington
officials. When they arrived. Mrs.
Wing had extricated the key from the
pocket of her husba nd's coat and had
Crawled downstairs.
Worthington constable said they
found Wings automatic pistol with
four shells discharged, lying by his
side. Coroner Murphy has not rem
dered verdict but he said last night
that he probably would pronounce
Wing a suicide.
Exactly what happened in the
locked room preceding the Meekers'
arrival has not been learned. Mrs.
Wings condition was such that she
could not receive visitors last night.
Mrs. Meeker indicated her daughter
would make a statement today.
Mrs. Wing has been married before.
her former husba nd having been John
Gatling of New York. She has at
tanned national recognition as a
poetess and prose writer. She is 80
years old. Wing. 40 years OF age. was
son OF Charles NJ. Wing. president
of local bank, in the bond depart
ment OF which he was employed. He
was a captain in the World War.
serving as liaison officer between the
French and American armies.
Mr.. Meeker, prominent In Demo
cratic State politics, has been men
toned asa candidate of his party for
the nomina tion for United States Sen
ator from Ohio. He was secretary to
the late James c. Campbell. when the
latter was governor of Ohio. and was
American consul at Batsford, England,
during the administration of President
Cleveland.