A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2392, 6 September 1886, Page 2

A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

' New York (says the New York correspondent of the Age writing on June 80) hag jußt been the scene ofa tragedy in which there was a considerable autnfcnt.. of romance, A young man, ThiorApjon by name, the son of a well-to-do clergyman in a western city, was sent here to Btudy medicine. His father allowed' hlni 1,200d0l a-year for his expenses (£2O amonth), and the youth sont regula* accounts of the. progress in his studies, He was expected to graduate in April last, and take his diplomas* a full-fledged doctor of medicine, and his family had po : suspicion that anything was wrong. Bui',''; the fact was he.was not attending to the •'. study of medicine; he was wasting hia .■' substance in riotous living, and devoting' his time and attention, in circles where good young men, are not often found. Ho' . . was engaged to marry a girl in his native - city, but a few weeks ago he wrote totell ■'■-; hor that all was off between them. Jin -'" Juue 2; the day of the v wedding of thv ■■■■-. "Preaidmit of tho United States, Thompi .. sou was, married to a saleswoman in one of the largo establishment* .devoted J to the retailing of dry goods: and."■• kindred merchandise, and then started. ■.: on a bridal, trip to the Eastern State?.,- : She was n girl of unblemished reputation}, •. beloved of her associates in the salesroom, and devotedly attached to her husband, who had represented himself to be well - off and able to support her in goocUMo. From the bridal trip they New York and took rooms at the oturr, vesnnt Hotel, whonceiheywere to depart on the noon of July 15 for 1 , his' home in, the West, making two or three detours of pleasure on the way. At three o'clock' on that afternoon there was a ring of the bull of the room occupied by the bridal' pair. The servant who went to the dooi found it locked, and .heard groans within the apartment. Aid was summoned, the door was forced, and there lay -the woman dyjng, with two bullets.-in her heard, and, the man. "seriously wounded, with no loss than four bullet' wounds. lu luilf-an-hour sho wis' £«* d. .The man refused tojoll the cause shooting, or to admit that no had douoTt, except so far as to shoot himself, H«t was taken to a hospital, where he lingered Until Saturday morning, and then -died. The coroner repeatedly questioned him as ■ to his life and the last act of it; he was willing to talk of anything else, but as to the Bho jting of his wife he was perfectly silont. On the very day the fatal shots wore fired, Thompson's father, who had teen recently married to a second wife, started from his .homo on his bridal tour in Europe Ho was due in New itufr on Friday evening. While.on his. •3J»; he received by telegraph news, of the misdeeds of his son, and his : ifirst visit on arriving here was to the hospital where the dying, youth lay.' The flatter then too weak to speak nbro .than a few sentences". What he did say to his father ' has not been given to the public; as- no one else was present', and the father declined to be interviewed; but the'contents of tho pockets and the' trunk of young Thompson tell the motive of-the orime. The murderer's pocket* contained about 55 cente in money;, he'had pawned hii watch and everything else of ivaluo. had stolen his wife's opera glasses and other things from her : trinJc Jo pawn them- an hour before the tnutder, sjfl with the proceeds had bought the, secondhand pistol with which he'did the shootinc., He had borrowed money, from all his acquaintances until their patience and purses vj»re exhausted; he had .'nothing with whjch to pay his hotel bill and bur thdtjC&ts for their journey'westward, anaeHßetermlned to adjust the whole dihJKy by an appeal to- RUiipfigitar. AftMhootine hiß wife he rang anuKn turned the pistol on himself beW the boy could reach the door.

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