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Show DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN A BRIDAL CHAMBER Bride Evidently Killed Husband and Then Put Bullet Through Her Own Brain. NORFOLK. Va. Nov 3. Helen Hope who last night was married to Randolph ('. Johnson, at Pcragulms, N. C, was found dMd in her bridal chamber there this morning, with a pistol in her hnnd and ja bullet wound through her head. Johnson was Ivlug aCTOSS the bed. dead, with three hiiliets In hi. head and DOdjT. Johnson had loved Miss Hope since her early childhood. He was : yours f age nml she hut 17. After the'r wedding Wednesday night a large supper and dance followed, and about midnight the couple drove to the home the groom had pr. pared. Pistol in Her Hand. Their nonappearance about the honsn In the morning caused Inquiry, and when the door of their room was broken open the woman was found lying In a pool of blood before her dresser, with a pistol In her hand and her brains oozing from the wound In her head. No Motive Learned. Johnson's wounds were In the left breast, the left temple and a grazing wound on the ch--k Cither ot the Aral two wounds would have proved fatal. N'o motive for the tragedy can be learned |