Show CRIME AND TRAGEDY only a sample of hie the horrible scenes enacted in ili real iteal life lifa in san francisco ono one charles Thoin thompson lison attempts to shoot his lits former paramour Para mouro the usual sunday shooting scrape took place last sabbath afternoon at eddy street in san francisco the caso being in this instance an attempt to commit murder foll followed owea by eu suicide icide As usual a women ia is concerned in the caso case and from her story related aou after the shooting the following facts are gleaned it appears that about ten years ago 2 0 eha married a man named A M burnham a resident of oak land up to about four years ago the couple lived happily to together gether and one child was the result of their union A divorce followed four years ago and soon afterward the child died andaas and waa interred in laurel hill demetry Ce metry on bearin hearing of the death of her child t the e mother became sudden suddenly lir ill I 1 and being without friende friends sho he lacked jacked attendance and kind care which a sick person should have about thie this timie time she made the acquaintance of charles thompson a carpenter by trade he paid her every attention that hia his small peana ancane would r id and nd in due time through his constant nursing she was restored to full and perfect health A meretricious RELATION soon after her reco recovery v ery it waa was mutually argreen bet between them that they should live together as man and wife without the customary ceremony of marriage at his request she accompanied hi him in to victoria british columbia and there they lived happily together for several months thom thompson poll worked steadily etea dily at athis his trade and being a good mechanic he commanded high wages he paid her every attention and during their stay say there ho lie never once abused her or ill treated her in in any way As time wore on they both became tired of their exile from their friends as they tiey espres expressed sed it and consequently aly left on the steamer queen of the pacific for this city last december on arrival they went over to oakland and took up their quarters at the eureka hotel after some little timo time thompson secured work in in a nail factory factor y at berkeley and by means of his small car earnings n ilias he managed to support 0 r himself and his mistress comfortably fo fort t ably abny although not in luxury some time in last march thompson lost his situation and as is the result in moet most cases odthe of the kind his mistress became tired o fhi mr accordingly told him so she gal said id that he was without means and unable to support her and that the best thing they couer do would be to separate thompson edthe matter and besought her not to leave him and he promised promie ed to soon obtain employment she was firm in her bar decision however and she he separated rated from him bim and came to this city taking up her quarters with mrs E III sutherland alias the duchess at eddy street A LIFE OP OF SHAME the house is one of low repute there beine two women in tho the place exclusive of the last arrival mrs I 1 burnham or thompson as ehe r he was mas commonly called tho the women j managed to make a 1 tying hying and keep the house running in style it consists of five handsomely furnished rooms including three bedrooms one olie of which was occupied by airs burnham thompson had visited the object of hia sine since she left him on divers oo 00 casiono he threatened that uni unless ess he lie was able to secure employment that he be would kill her find himself hiroi elf she paid no attention to hia his threat threats although at the same time she site admitted that she had no doubt that he would kill her whenever ho to took it into his head although ho he had been very kind to her ehe she had bad been impressed several times with the fact that he was possessed of a violent temper and that when in a rage he would be capable of doing almost anything on last friday he be visited her and when be entered her room shi became in scantly a afraid fraid of dflia him m on account of his indescribable actions slie she appeared very nervous and several times during his stay he talked and mum mumbled blee to himself he ile told her that he had bad made a raise and that ho wanted her to go goto to larrel hill cemetery where her tier child is interred a 11 he e ex explained bained that he wae wall anxious to fix up tip the grave after some persuasion eho she finally consented to accompany him to the cemetery on yesterday morning at 1080 he ile left apparently satisfied he arrived punctually at the tile appointed hour yesterday but A ehe 0 declined to go until the afternoon she went out to get her break breakfast fait and he lie took a walk WAITING C FOR HIS 1118 VICTIM when she returned to the ro room om sho she found thompson sitting on a chair with ft whisky flask in in hn his hand partly filled with some liquid he requested her to take a drink but fearing that it might contain poison ehe she declined he again asked her to go with him to the cemetery but she said that ehe she did not care to go but that she would take a walk with him he ile agreed and she proceeded to arrange her hair while she was engaged eil in the operation he talked to her on ter general beneral topics he finally asked her if she would go back to live with him slie she said that she would were it not for the tact fact that lie had lind no means aethen he then asked her lier ii n she would go back to him in the fall without ft ailing waiting for an an awer he dealt herb hera a powerful blow in ill the face floru behind which on alel y turned her around he ire then then dr drove 0 V down aown into his back pocket t and produced a small sized revolver she grabbed him bini around the neck and screamed at the top of her voice he ile managed to ex gricate himself from her embrace and imme immediately lately leveled the weapon went a at t her head and fired the eo lle bullet u t passed through her hair without wounding her but her face was badly powder burned she ran from the room into the hal hall where she fell senseless thompson thinking that ho be bad had killed the woman and wisely wishing to save the city the expense exic nse of a trial placed the tle revolver to his own head and fired the bullet passed through his mouth up into his brain where it remained befell he fell to the floor lifeless where he lie was afterward found by the woman of the house soon after the shooting upward of people assembled in front of the dwelling and it was all tho the police could do to keep back the excited mob the coroner was wits notified an and thompsons remains remia ius were removed to the tile morgue his ilis face was all covered with blod as were also his clothes I 1 from head to foot feet upon beim being searched a white handled bandied knife containing a blade fully eix six inches long jong was found open in his pants antea pocket it ie is evident that if Ee he could have haye got his victim out to the camet r he lie intended to kill her with the knife and then escape himself but anticipating that she would not accompany him he be provided himself with the pistol in order to carry out his purpose at all all hazards E M burnham husband of the ille woman is at present a member of morses patrol S F alia alta |