Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-15 | Page 4 | Double Tragedy in City of Los Angeles

IfJ, DOUBLE TRAGEDY IH if. CITt Cf LOS AHGELES Hf Young Woman Believed to Have Shot Lover and Then Com-mitted Com-mitted Suicide. Hk ' LOS ANG1DLES, Oct. 14. A murder B and auicido occurred at an early hour this momintr, as a result of which Mrs. Myrtle Clare, tlio 22-3'ear-old wife oi' ' , Jra Clare, employee of an ico company, Kj is dead, and J. .T. Lamburt, a- conductor Hf- ' i'or the Los Angeles Railway company, H; is at the point of death in the receiviupc IB hospital, The police believe that the 1 woman shot the man and slew herself, I . although the evidence as to which one m did the shooting is not conclusive. Lam- I1 bert came here a short time ago from F, Denver and Pueblo. Both rho man and woman were mar-, S ' ' .ried. Mrs. Clare left her husband when ; ' she met Lambert somo months :ipo and ' ' had applied for a divorce. It is stated J by the police that Mrs. Clare did noi m Know at that time that Lambert was married. When she learned that Lam- J bert had deceived her and had a wifo I living, she resolved to end both of their Jives.