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tained in the will, and the payment of these will be taken up as soon as the debts of the estate have been paid off. In order to do so some of the fixed property of the estate will have to he converted into cash, and in every such case an order similar to the one issued today will have to be made.WOMAN DIES UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES.was that she and its eon-her destituteAbout 4 o’clock yesterday morning a woman whose name has been given out by the authorities as Mrs. Ruth Landers, came to her death at the house of ill fame in (’olorado (’My, conducted by Laura Bell, under circumstances that seem to be sensational, yet the whole matter is more or less shrouded in mystery.The suicide theory exploited by some and others go so far as to say that there may have been violence used on the part of someone in the house. The story of Coroner David Law, who viewed the body early yesterday morning and ordered it taken to Beyle’s undertaking establishment, is that she came to her death gradually, being first intoxicated and then taking morphine, which threw her into a deep sleep, from which she never recovered.The woman came to the house some time Sunday evening and was then under the influence of liquor. Her plea, according to some, had lost her pocket book tents and appreciating circumstance inquired at the first place she happened to stumble onto, for lodging. Coroner Law seems to think, according to the information that he has been able to gather, that the woman added to her already befuddled condition by taking added draughts of morphine as early as Monday morning, for he ascertained that she had bought a quantity of it before losing her pocket-book. Her condition from that time to the time of her death, according to this theory, was that of a comatose state, resulting ultimately in her death. The coroner is of the opinion that her death was induced by ehroni: alcoholism, aggravated by the taking of morphine and he signed a certificate to this effect and ordered her body removed to the undertaking parlors.Efforts to Suooress.Inquiry at the resort where the woman's body was found failed to throw light on the matter. Inquiry at theof Marshall Birdsail also avail. Marshall Birdsail to know the least thing about the affair yet it was at the same time common talk on the streets less than a block from his office.A pocketbook was found in the street Monday morning by Officer Murphy and it was later identified as belonging to the dead woman.The dead woman was about 45 years of age and has a brother and married daughter living in Leadville. Beyle’s undertaking establishment still has the body in charge and has wired to Leadville for instructions, but up to midnighthad received none. Coroner Law says that she lived in Denver but knows nothing of what her occupation was in that city.While there is still some question about the identity of the woman, it isreported that she was the divorced wife •police station proved of no professed notstructions were made plainer and | tof a once prominent Denver man, and has been married two or three times. According to the story told in Colorado City, she applied for work as a domestic at the house where she died, but during all the time she was therei was in a state of intoxication.JEALOUS NEGRO SHOOTS WIFE AN DTHREATENS LIVES OF HIS CHILDREN.Harvey King, colored, 50 years old, shot and seriously xvnunded hip wife, Bella King, at 0:30 yesterday morning, at his home, 54S East Moreno street. Six shots were fired in all, three of them taking effect. The first ball fired entered thechest and pierced the left lung.The other shots inflicted only fleshwounds, one of them taking effect in the left breast and the other in the right breast. Mrs. King is now lying at St. Francis hospital in a precarious condition and it is feared that inflammation of the lungs will result and cause her death.During the shooting King threatened to klli his three children.According to statements given out by King, his wound* *d wife and their 13-yea r-o!d daughter, the act was committed in a fit of jealousy. According to the little girl King called his wife into the house shortly before 9:3u. saying that he wanted to talk to her. “Mamma said she was afraid to go alone.“ she said, “and asked me to go with her. The girl said that when she and her mother went into the room she paw her father take his revolver from under the wn*hstand where he usually kept it, and place it under the cover on the bed. He was sitting in a. chair with his right hand resting on the bed over his revolver, and he asked his wife to take a chair in front of him. She did so, and he then accused her of infidelity, which she denied. Suddenly he drew out his revolver and fired directly at his wife. This shot was the one which took effect in the left lung.After this shot- had been fired Mrs. King got out of her chair and ran for the front door of the house. King fired at her again, the hall taking effect in the right breast. By this time, however, the woman -was on the outside of the house with her husband following directly aft?r. On the outside he fired four more shuts and then returned to the house, threw out the empty shells and reloaded his revolver. During the time he was chasing his wife around the outside of the house, his children remonstrated with him and sought to prevent him from going further. At one time he turned on them and told them to leave him alone or he wouldkill them all. During the excitement the little girl, who was in the room when he fired the first shot, struck him in the back with as large a rock as she was able to lift, and several smaller stones werethrown at him.Mrs. King managed to get to the house at 550 East Moreno street, where she was taken in and kept until the ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital. County Physician Richardson was notified as soon as the shooting had been reported to the police and in company with Detective Atkinson he went to the scene of the shooting in the patrol wagon. Someone at the office of the Sinton Dairy com-
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Colorado Springs Weekly Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Thu, Jul 09, 1903
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