A PHILADELPHIA TRAGEDY.

Evening Star, Issue 3407, 22 January 1874, Page 3

A PHILADELPHIA TRAGEDY.

(From the Correspondent of. the . New York World). A terrible attempt at murder, and suicide occurred at an early hour on September 24, the scene of the tragedy • being laid in a princely mansion in the west end, and the result themortal woundingof an accomplished a,ud beautiful wife by a jealpus husband, who afterwards blew out his own brains. The ? re connected with the best society of Philadelphia, and lived in elegant style in a villa on Kingsessing. avenue, No. 4,215. Thomas B. Parker, the suicide, who used his pistol with such terrible effect, was an extraordinary man, of marked intellectual attainments, peculiar eccentricity, and a very jealous temperament. About one o’clock this mominghis wife rushed into the apartments occupied by the servants, in the rear of the mansion, and shrieked in a loud voice that her eye had been shot put. The terrified domestics laid the bleeding woman, who was faint from loss of blood, upon a bod an d immediately aroused the coachman. While these proceedings were being enacted* a ringing report of a pistol was heard to come from the second floor of the mam residence. After breaking open the door leading into the bedroom occupied hv Mrs Parker, the hushaud was discovered lying dead, stretched out upon a bed with a deadly wound in the right side of his head, and a Sharpe’s four-shooting revolver clutched in his hand. It seems that a jealous feeling had been nursed by the husband against his wife, and within the last few weeks they had been occupying separate steeping apartments. Last right Mrs Parker locked the door communicating between the rooms, when she retired, and the only way by which Parker could have gob in her room was by a side door. This was found open, and must have been the avenue employed. Coroner Brown, this afternopn, held an inquest upon the body of the suicide, but no new facts other than above recorded were elicited. Airs Parker is still in a critical condition. The sight of her !eft eyo is totally destroyed, and the ball which did the work is still embedded in her head. She is about 30 years of age, and very beautiful. Parker is well known in New York, being connected by marriage with several wealthy families of the metropolis.