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Show WOMEN FIGHT TO OEMjnill Mrs. Jacob Silvers Kills Mrs. Julius Tripp and Commits Com-mits Suicide. TEN BULLET WOUNDS UPON MURDERED WOMAN Trouble Over Division of Household House-hold Duties Assigned as Cause. CrriCAGO, Sept. 35. Mrs. Jacob Silvers, Sil-vers, formerly of New York, shot and killed Mrs. Julius Tripp of this city, her sister-in-law, aud committed suicide in the apartments of the former in a fashionable residence district here today. to-day. 'Mrs. Tripp was found with ten bullet bul-let wounds ut:! one knife wound in her body. Mrs. Silvers died at a hospital touight after confessing the crime.. The police were unable to get a full and connected .statement, from Mrs. Silvers, as she repeatedly became unconscious while bciug questioned, and died before any details could bo obtained. It is believed tho tragedy wns caused by a quarrel over the division of household house-hold duties. Both Cry for Help. i Tho appearance almost simultaneously of the two women at different entrances en-trances to the apartment, each serAim-ing serAim-ing for help and tho knife wounds suffered suf-fered at fust has led the police to believe be-lieve that there was a third person in the tragedy instead of its being a battle bat-tle between thc two women or a murder or suicide. Mrs. Tripp appeared in the hallway in front of her apartments screaming for help. "I am being murdered in here' she shouted to a neighbor. At almost the same timo a woman in a blood-streaked night gown was seen at the rear entrance 1)3' the janitor. "Como quick and save me, she cried. "J am being killed." When the apartment was entered blood was found on the parlor curtains, several pictures had been broken and chairs overturned. In a bedroom Mrs. Tripp was found dead on the floor fnlly dressed. Ifer face and waist were covered cov-ered with blood. Other Unconscious, Mts. Silvers lay on the bed in "another "an-other room and her night gown and thc bed clothes were covered with blood. I31ood was gushing from a deep cut in her forehead and she was unconscious. Several buiieis had passed through Mrs. Tripp's bod v. making wounds both in the front and back. There were manv powder marks ou her waist showing show-ing that rhe bullets had been fired at close range. Search of tho room failed to disclose the knife with whicli tho cuts had been made. Mr. Tripp in discussing dis-cussing the tragedy, said: "Three months ago Mrs. Silvers was deserted by her husband. Silvers said lie had left her because of her actions, which led h;m io believe she wns becoming be-coming mentally unbalanced. T wrote Mrs. Silvers to conic and mako her home with us. Refuses to Work. "Mrs. Tripp told Mrs. Silvers she would have to do her share of the work about the house, but Mrs. Silvers insisted that she was a guest and did uo t intend to work, This caused many quarrels, and Monday my wife asked me to tell Mrs Silvers that she would have to do part of tho work. Mrs. Silvers overheard this and said she would 'get? my wife. We paid no attention at-tention to this. Mrs. Silvers did not appear for any of her meals Tuesday, but this morning she was at the breakfast break-fast table and apparently hnd forgotten forgot-ten all about her differences. They wont visiting together this morning." Mrs. Tripp had four children, all of whom wore at school when the tragedy occurred. |