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Show I0VEKS .DIE" TOGETHER . -IN HOTEL, AS: SPIRENT RESULT OP DEHTH PACT . NEW YOEK, Oct; 27. Loots 0. Hampton, assistant secretary. . of . the United States Trust compaiiyof this . city, shot and killed Victoria C. Taczkow, a beautiful young woman, in the Hotel Griffou and in West Ninth street late last night, and ..then com: mitted suicide. Hampton was .infatuated .infatu-ated with the woman and ' faey had been together , many times during the , past month. They had been- at the hotel where the tragedy occurred since early yesterday. . . Whether or not the tragedy' was the , . result of a pact between the man and the woman to die together, has not bees determined, but the circumstances seem te-showthat- the young woman had agreed to die with ber companion. Hampton, 1 who was about 60 vears old, leaves a wife and two children. Miss Taczkow was 29 years of age, and lived with her father and invalid mother. moth-er. She was employed in a Fifth avenue av-enue department store. The Luted States Trust company, of which L. G.. Hampton was assistant secretary, is one of the largest and strongest trust companies in New York. . The events leading up to the tragedy have been traced by the police, and according ac-cording to them tse last chapter, in which looks to be an illicit romance, began on Thursday afternoon last, when Hampton called at the Hotel Griffon and engaged a room. He said he would return later that sight or the nextvmorning. v - "I expect to have my wife with me," be said, as he was about to leave. Hampton then left and nothing more was seen of him until iTiday morning, when about 0 o'cloek be entered the hotel accompanied by a woman, and going go-ing straight up to the hotel office ne registered as "Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair, Burlington, Vt." The woman who accompanied him was an unusually handsome brunette. She was fashionably dressed and carried car-ried in her hand a small traveling bag. , A request was sent to the clerk to call them at 11 o'clock last night to catch a train. ' At seven minutes to 11 a maid went to the room to call the couple, but when her repeated raps at the door brought so response she notified the hotel of. fice. The room was opened with a pass kev and the mystery was explained. On the floor at the far end of the room between .a large mirror and ft dresser lav the man stretched out on his back. In his right hand was clutched a revolver, while his hat was held tightly is the left hand. A shot fired into his mouth had entered his brain, killing him instantly. Directly in front was the bed, and upon up-on it was the woman, also dead. Her feet were on the floor, while her -bead was resting on the bedclothes, with her arm shielding her face. 1 In her arm were three bullet wounds, none of which appeared much more than flesh wounds, nut right under the left arm pit was a fourth wound which must have cone through the heart. Word of the tragedy was sent to the Coroner's office, and as a result of that official's investigation the identity of the victims was established. In addition addi-tion to a valuable watch and other jewelry jew-elry found is Hampton's pockets there were papers which directed inquiry to the apartment-house in West, Twenty-third Twenty-third street, where he had lived with his wife. |