A Midnight Tragedy in an American Hotel.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 3

A Midnight Tragedy in an American Hotel.

A tragedy at the Paxton House Hotel, O ha. Nebraska, has created a most painful sensation in the United States. Henry W. King is a member of a wealthy and highly respectable family at Chicago. He went to Omaha to represent his father's business fi>m, and introduced at the Paxton House as his wife a singularly handsome and attractive young woman. Shortly after wards there arrived another lady, showily dressed and of attractive manners, who entered her name in the hotel book as Mrs Henry W. King. At midnight she went to Kings rooms and announced herself somewhat noisily. Mr King, not desiring the two women to meet, went out into the passage Co speak with the new-comer. She flung her arms about his neck ; he repulsed her, she drew a revolver and fired afc Mm. He fled : she followed ; he stumbled on reaching; the staircase, whereupon, taking deliberate aim, she fired three times. King had clung to the bannister to prevent himself from falling. At the bhird shot his hold, relaxed, and he fell backwards down th© stairway, shot through the heart. The woman flung herself upon the body, exclaiming, ' I have killed my husband,' and was immediately arrested. It appears thaii the first lady mentioned in this terrible business was King's wife,. The other, who killed him, is a Mjca Beecher, of Chicago, with whom h,e> had lived previous to hii^ marriage to Miss Duffy of St. Louis. > >