| Show KILLED HIMSELF AND THE WOMAN Mad M ad Infatuation I of Louis G 6 Hampton o of f New York Ended in Tragedy Y STRUGGLED FOR HER LIFE GIRL SHOT FOUR TIMES BY AGED MURDERER New York Oct 27 Louis G Hamp Hampton Hampton Hampton ton assistant secretary of the United States Trust company of this city shot and killed Victoria C a beau beautiful beautiful beautiful young oung woman in the Hotel Hot l Grif fou in West Ninth street late last night and then committed suicide Hampton was infatuated with the woman and they had been together many times during diring the past month They had been at the hotel where the tragedy occurred since early yesterday esterday Whether or not the tragedy was the result of a pact between the man and aud the woman to die together has not been determined but the tho circumstances seem to show that the young woman had agreed to die with her companion comp nion Hampton who ho was about 60 years old leaves a wife and two children Miss was 29 years of age and lived with her fa father father father i ther and Invalid mother She was em employed employed employed In a Fifth avenue department store The United States Trust com company company company pany of ot which I L G Hampton was assistant as assistant assistant secretary Is one of the largest and strongest trust companies in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Lyman J Gage was its president presIdent president dent until recently and on his retire retirement retirement ment mont Edward W Sheldon was elected president and Mr Hampton for some sometime sometIme sometime time acted as secretary Events o Tragedy The events leading up to the tragedy have been traced by the police and ac according according according cording to them the last chapter in which looks to be an illicit romance be besan began began gan san on Thursday afternoon last when Hampton called at the Hotel and engaged a room He said he would return later that night or the next morning I expect c to have my wife with me meu he said as he was about to leave and then ten half hesitating he said Would you like me to register now The maid replied that it would be time enough to do this when he arrived at the hotel to take the room Hampton then left and nothing more was seen of him until Friday morning when about 9 he be entered the hotel accompanied accompanied accompanied by a woman and going straight up to the hotel office he registered as Mr and Mrs Sinclair Burlington Vt rt Ate Dinner Together The woman who accompanied him was an unusually handsome brunette She was fashionably dressed and carried car carried carried ried in her hand a small traveling bag The couple took breakfast and then went vent to their room The woman left the hotel several times during the day but Hampton remained in his room Soon after she returned from one of these excursions early In the evening a light dinner was sent to their room and a request was sent to the clerk to call caU them at 11 last night We want to be called at 11 so that we may catch a train said Mf Mi Hampton From that time until half past 10 nothing was heard or seen of the couple cou couple couple but at that hour a maid was in the corridor outside the room which Thich they occupied when she heard what she thought was an explosion in the street She took no particular notice of it at atthe atthe atthe the time Bodies Discovered At 7 minutes to 11 she went to the room to call the couple but when her repeated raps at the door brought no response she notified the hotel office The room was opened with a pass key and the mystery was explained On the floor at the far end of the room between a large mirror and a dresser lay the man stretched out on his back in his right hand was clutched a revolver while his hat was yas held tightly in the left hand A shot fired into his mouth had entered his brain killing him instantly Directly in front was the bed and upon it was the wo woman woman woman man also dead Her feet were on the floor while her head was resting on the bedclothes with her arm shielding her face faceIn faceIn faceIn In her arm were three bullet wounds none of which appeared very much more than flesh wounds but right un under under under der the left armpit was a fourth wound The bullet had been fired evidently after the woman had sunk back on the bed when she had been shot in the arm for it entered her body in a down downward downward downward ward direction and must have gone through the hart h rt Identity Established Word of the tragedy was sent to the coroners office and as a result of that officials investigation the identity of the victims was established In addi addition addition addition tion to a valuable watch and other jew jewelry elry found in Hamptons pockets there were papers which directed inquiry to the apartment house In West Twenty third street where he had bad lived with his wife At the United States Trust company it was said today that Hampton was at atthe atthe atthe the office of the company on Thursday attending to his duties On Friday he telephoned that he was indisposed but would be at the office today An officer of the company said that Mr Hamp Hamptons Hamptons Hamptons I tons duties were secretarial only and that he had nothing to do with the finances It is believed the theoffice theoffice theoffice office said that his books were cor correctly correctly correctly kept Had a Good Record Mr Hampton had been employed by bythe bythe bythe the trust company for years and was a of former President John A Stewart now chairman of the board of directors He was regarded reg by the officers of the company as an anable anable anable able and efficient man and with good habits The first positive identification of the victims of the tragedy was made by the dead womans brother He had been notified that a young woman wearing I jewelry bearing his sisters initials had been murdered and went to a police station to look at the articles which had been there He at once recognized recognized recognized a pair of silk garters with gold buckles as the property of his sister One of the buckles bore the letters V VI VI I 1 T while on the other was inscribed L G H Young also told the police that the man probably was L G Hampton who had been very to his sister for some time Thought Him Honorable Hampton told us that he intended intended intend d to marry my sister when his mother died said I never knew much about him but he seemed to be honor honorable honorable honorable able in his intentions and appeared to tobe tobe tobe be very of my sister Victoria was wasa a good girl and never stayed out all the night We Ve thought we knew where she was every minute of the time Louis G Hampton had a summer summerhome summerhome summerhome home at Highland in Ulster county this state and Mrs lUrs Hampton and her herda daughter da spent the last summer there According to Dr Lepan the coroners physician there is evidence that Miss made a desperate struggle for her life I |
