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Couple Die Together in Hotel Tragedy
Louis G Hampton assistant secretary of the United States Trust Company in New York shot and killed Victoria A Taczkow at the Hotel Griffon on West Ninth Street and then died by suicide. Police say an illicit romance may have ended in a joint death. Hampton left a wife and two children. Taczkow, 29, worked at a Fifth Avenue department store. Hampton had served thirty five years at the trust company and was a protege of former president John A Stewart.
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New York
Louis G. Hampton
United States Trust Company
Victoria A. Taczkow
Griffon
West Ninth Street
Hampton
Miss Taczkow
Fifth Avenue
Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman P. Gage
Erain
West Twentythird Street
Trust Company
John A. Stewart